First edition.
Scandinavia by Girolamo Ruscelli. 1561
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.
Schonladia Nuova.
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Scandinavia by Girolamo Ruscelli.
Title: Schonladia Nuova.
Cartographer: Giacomo Gastaldi.
Date of the first edition: 1561.
Date of this map: 1561.
First edition.
Copper engraving, printed on paper.
Image size: 190 x 255mm (7.48 x 10.04 inches).
Sheet size: 230 x 310mm (9.06 x 12.2 inches).
Verso: Italian text.
Condition: Excellent, strong impression.
Condition Rating: A+.
From: La Geografia di Claudio Tolomeo Alessandrino, Nuovamente tradotta di Greco in Italiano da Girolamo Ruscelli. Venice, Vincenzo Valgrisi, 1561. (Karrow, p.222 30/C.1)
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.
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