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MAGINI, Giovanni Antonio (1555-1617). Italia. Bologna: [Clemente Ferroni], 1620 [but 1632].
The second edition of ‘the first atlas of Italy produced by an Italian’ (NMM).
Folio (418 x 289mm). Engraved title by Oliviero Gatto with figures representing astronomy and surveying, portrait of the author dated 1632, 63 engaved maps (including the 61 called for in the index, an extra map of Liguria, Riviera di Levante and a repeat of Abruzzo Citra, et Ultra); variant issues of the engraved title with central panel relaid, index and part of preliminary leaves bound in at end (title remargined and repaired, maps on modern guards). Modern half vellum over marbled boards. Provenance: Matio Pl? (illegible ownership inscription on title).
Magini's Italia was first issued in 1620; the second and third editions both retain the 1620 date. Magini, tutor to the Gonzaga family and professor of astronomy at Bologna University, had engraved most of the maps by 1613, and when he died the atlas was substantially complete; its publication three years later was supervised by his son Fabio. Eleven of the plates bear the signature of the English engraver, Benjamin Wright, who may also have been responsible for other maps. Graesse IV 336; NMM Atlases and Cartography III/1 29; Nordenskiöld II 137; Philipps 3061; Shirley BL T.Mag-1c.
The second edition of ‘the first atlas of Italy produced by an Italian’ (NMM).
Folio (418 x 289mm). Engraved title by Oliviero Gatto with figures representing astronomy and surveying, portrait of the author dated 1632, 63 engaved maps (including the 61 called for in the index, an extra map of Liguria, Riviera di Levante and a repeat of Abruzzo Citra, et Ultra); variant issues of the engraved title with central panel relaid, index and part of preliminary leaves bound in at end (title remargined and repaired, maps on modern guards). Modern half vellum over marbled boards. Provenance: Matio Pl? (illegible ownership inscription on title).
Magini's Italia was first issued in 1620; the second and third editions both retain the 1620 date. Magini, tutor to the Gonzaga family and professor of astronomy at Bologna University, had engraved most of the maps by 1613, and when he died the atlas was substantially complete; its publication three years later was supervised by his son Fabio. Eleven of the plates bear the signature of the English engraver, Benjamin Wright, who may also have been responsible for other maps. Graesse IV 336; NMM Atlases and Cartography III/1 29; Nordenskiöld II 137; Philipps 3061; Shirley BL T.Mag-1c.
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