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ANONYMOUS. Sicilia. [Rome: A. Lafreri, 1560]
Engraved map of Sicily, on a single Royal sheet, 403 x 548mm (engraving 373 x 498mm). The map covering the whole of Sicily, Maretamo, Pantalleria, Ustica, the adjacent islands, and part of Calabria, description set in a cartouche, scalebar, graticule border, galleons decorate the sea. (Trimmed to platemark, some light browning.)
RARE. A dark impression of an early map of Sicily with the guidelines and guide lettering still visible. The map was inspired by Gastaldi's map of the same as it appeared in Ptolemy's Geographia of 1545. The success of this map was due to the fine combination of nautical and Ptolomeaic elements with chorographic information taken from texts on the subject. Lago suggests another possible source, Francesco Maurolico's Descrittione della Sicilia, published in Venice in 1546. Tooley 519; watermark Woodward 107.
Engraved map of Sicily, on a single Royal sheet, 403 x 548mm (engraving 373 x 498mm). The map covering the whole of Sicily, Maretamo, Pantalleria, Ustica, the adjacent islands, and part of Calabria, description set in a cartouche, scalebar, graticule border, galleons decorate the sea. (Trimmed to platemark, some light browning.)
RARE. A dark impression of an early map of Sicily with the guidelines and guide lettering still visible. The map was inspired by Gastaldi's map of the same as it appeared in Ptolemy's Geographia of 1545. The success of this map was due to the fine combination of nautical and Ptolomeaic elements with chorographic information taken from texts on the subject. Lago suggests another possible source, Francesco Maurolico's Descrittione della Sicilia, published in Venice in 1546. Tooley 519; watermark Woodward 107.