Early 'Texas' map
North America, by Girolamo Ruscelli. 1574
Girolamo Ruscelli (1504 (1518?) -1566)
Girolamo Ruscelli was an Italian mathematician and cartographer who worked in Venice in the early 16th century. He was also an alchemist who wrote pseudonymously as Alessio Piemontese.
He published a translation of the Geografia of Ptolemy, printed in Venice by Vincenzo Valgrisi in 1561. It was a quarto edition with Ptolemaic and modern maps. The engravers may have been the brothers Giulio and Livio Sanuto. Among the 69 copperplate maps were 40 based on maps by Giacomo Gastaldi. The maps were re-issued in 1562, 1564, 1574 and 1598.
Nueva Hispania Tabula Nova.
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Category: Antique maps > America > Central America
Title: Nueva Hispania Tabula Nova.
Cartographer: Giacomo Gastaldi.
Date of the first edition: 1561.
Date of this map: 1574.
Copper engraving, printed on paper.
Size (not including margins): 150 x 260mm (5.91 x 10.24 inches).
Verso: Italian text.
Condition: Excellent.
Condition Rating: A.
From: La Geografia di Claudio Tolomeo Alessandrino. Venice, 1574.
Girolamo Ruscelli (1504 (1518?) -1566)
Girolamo Ruscelli was an Italian mathematician and cartographer who worked in Venice in the early 16th century. He was also an alchemist who wrote pseudonymously as Alessio Piemontese.
He published a translation of the Geografia of Ptolemy, printed in Venice by Vincenzo Valgrisi in 1561. It was a quarto edition with Ptolemaic and modern maps. The engravers may have been the brothers Giulio and Livio Sanuto. Among the 69 copperplate maps were 40 based on maps by Giacomo Gastaldi. The maps were re-issued in 1562, 1564, 1574 and 1598.