America, by Giovanni Lorenzo d'Anania, published by Girolamo Ruscelli. 1598
Ruscelli's 1598 edition of Ptolemy's Geography included this newly engraved copper plate by Girolamo Porro. It appeared first in Giovanni Lorenzo d'Anania's L'Universale Fabrica del Mondo, 1582.
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.
America.
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Old, antique map of America, by Giovanni Lorenzo d'Anania.
Title: America.
Poro. - Cum Priv.
Cartographer: Giovanni Lorenzo d'Anania.
Engraver: Girolamo Porro.
Date of the first edition: 1582.
Date of this map: 1598.
Copper engraving, printed on paper.
Map size: 175 x 245mm (6.89 x 9.65 inches).
Sheet size: 245 x 350mm (9.65 x 13.78 inches).
Verso: Italian text.
Condition: Excellent.
Condition Rating: A+.
References: Burden, #54, 1st state (of 2); Nordenskiöld 2, p. 200 #227 [61])
From: La Geografia di Claudio Tolomeo Alessandrino, Tradotta di Greco nell'Idioma Volgare Italiano da M. Girolamo Ruscelli, et hora nouvamente ampliata da Gioseffo Rosaccio ... In Venetia, MDXCVIII [1598]. (Shirley (Brit. Lib.), T.PTOL-10f - Nordenskiöld 2, p. 200 #227)
Ruscelli's 1598 edition of Ptolemy's Geography included this newly engraved copper plate by Girolamo Porro. It appeared first in Giovanni Lorenzo d'Anania's L'Universale Fabrica del Mondo, 1582.
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.