Low Countries by Girolamo Ruscelli. 1562
Girolamo Ruscelli (1504 (1518?) -1566)
Girolamo Ruscelli was an Italian mathematician and cartographer active in Venice during the early 16th century. He was also an alchemist, writing 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.
Fiandra, Brabantia, et Holanda Nuova.
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Category: Antique maps > Europe > The Low Countries
Old, antique map of Flanders (Vlaanderen), Brabant and Holland by G. Ruscelli.
Cartographer: G. Gastaldi - C. Ptolemy
Copper engraving, printed on paper.
Size (not including margins): 19 x 25cm (7.4 x 9.8 inches)
Verso text: Italian
Condition: Excellent.
Condition Rating: A
From: La Geografia di Claudio Tolomeo. Venice, 1561. (Karrow, 30/C.1)
In 1561, Girolamo Ruscelli published a new translation of Ptolemy's Geographia.His maps are almost all enlargements of the 1548 Gastaldi maps.
Girolamo Ruscelli (1504 (1518?) -1566)
Girolamo Ruscelli was an Italian mathematician and cartographer active in Venice during the early 16th century. He was also an alchemist, writing 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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