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ANONYMOUS. Italia Nuova. No imprint, 1554.
Engraved map of the Italian peninsula on two full, chancery-size sheets joined, overall 447 x 592mm. Cartouche with privilege and date only, title set in a banner above the upper graticule border, the seas decorated with galleons and sea monsters, graticule border, some place names added in manuscript. (Trimmed to image, a few unobtrusive worm holes, old guard on verso.)
FINE EARLY IMPRESSION OF AN IMPORTANT MODERN MAP OF ITALY whose design also served as a model to Gastaldi's small map in his 1548 Venice Ptolemy and his great map of 1561, with initial lettering and guidelines still visible in places. This map is one of the most important examples of 16th-century Italian cartography, and acheived great fame over the following decades. According to Almagià and Lago there are ONLY TWO OTHER COPIES OF THIS MAP: one in the Biblioteca Nazionale in Florence and one in Dillingen (see Ruge, Aelteres Kartogr. Mater etc. IV, N. 90,72). Tooley 326; the British Library map room has a map with the same title but with the imprint of Donato Bertelli; each sheet with watermark, the first is Woodward 239, whilst that of the second is related to Woodward 193 and 194.
Engraved map of the Italian peninsula on two full, chancery-size sheets joined, overall 447 x 592mm. Cartouche with privilege and date only, title set in a banner above the upper graticule border, the seas decorated with galleons and sea monsters, graticule border, some place names added in manuscript. (Trimmed to image, a few unobtrusive worm holes, old guard on verso.)
FINE EARLY IMPRESSION OF AN IMPORTANT MODERN MAP OF ITALY whose design also served as a model to Gastaldi's small map in his 1548 Venice Ptolemy and his great map of 1561, with initial lettering and guidelines still visible in places. This map is one of the most important examples of 16th-century Italian cartography, and acheived great fame over the following decades. According to Almagià and Lago there are ONLY TWO OTHER COPIES OF THIS MAP: one in the Biblioteca Nazionale in Florence and one in Dillingen (see Ruge, Aelteres Kartogr. Mater etc. IV, N. 90,72). Tooley 326; the British Library map room has a map with the same title but with the imprint of Donato Bertelli; each sheet with watermark, the first is Woodward 239, whilst that of the second is related to Woodward 193 and 194.