Old antique map of Japan and Korea by Giovanni Botero / Natalis Metellus. 1596
Giovanni Botero (1533-1617)
Giovanni Botero was born in Bene, Pietmonte. He received a Jesuit education and entered the Order, becoming a teacher of rhetoric and philosophy in Italy and France. He was one of the greatest economists of the sixteenth century and considered a precursor of Malthus. He was expelled from the Order after delivering a sermon where he criticised the worldly authority of the Pope. His first geographical work, Le Relationi Universali, was published in 1591 but contained no maps. (J. Hubbard)
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Old, antique map of Japan by Giovanni Botero / Natalis Metellus.
Cartographer: Natalis Metellus, after Ortelius / Teixeira.
Copper engraving, printed on paper.
Size (not including margins): 14.5 x 21.5cm (5.7 x 8.3 inches)
Verso text: German
Condition: Some shine through of verso text, else excellent.
Condition Rating: A
References: Meurer (Cologne), Bot 17; Walter, #20 - OAG 6.
From: G. Botero. Theatrum oder Schawspiegel: Darin alle Fürsten der Welt, so Kräffte und Reichtumb halben namhafft seind, vorgestellt werden ... Cologne, Lambert Andree, 1596.
Giovanni Botero (1533-1617)
Giovanni Botero was born in Bene, Pietmonte. He received a Jesuit education and entered the Order, becoming a teacher of rhetoric and philosophy in Italy and France. He was one of the greatest economists of the sixteenth century and considered a precursor of Malthus. He was expelled from the Order after delivering a sermon where he criticised the worldly authority of the Pope. His first geographical work, Le Relationi Universali, was published in 1591 but contained no maps. (J. Hubbard)
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