Roma by FORLANI, Paolo - 1567

Ugo Mursia Editore. hardcover. Very Good. 0x0x0. Italy, 1963; Italian text; cloth covered boards; no dust jacket; slight bumping at corners of cover; minor shelf wear at edges of back strip; some rubbing; some soiling/smudging on boards; Interior clean and unmarked; 4to, 9 3/4" - 12" Tall; 33 pages.

Venetia,: Paolo Forlani,, 1566.. 272 by 355mm. (10.75 by 14 inches).. Double-page engraved map. Printed from a possible discarded first issue plate, with the date in the title cartouche in Roman numerals, rather than Arabic, and with the line break after 'esatta' in the title. An unusual map showing the coast of the Holy Land with Cyprus, and the Levant coast to the south of the Dead Sea, engraved and published by Paolo Forlani. The map is based on Martin Waldseemüller's cartography in the 1513 edition of Ptolemy's 'Geographia': Forlani probably saw Giordano Ziletti's edition published in Venice in 1561, enlarged it and added the decorative title cartouche and the wind rose. The variant with Arabic numerals appears in two states, the second published by Donato Bertelli. There are institutional examples in the Danish National Library, Leiden University Library, National Library of Israel and the Bibliothèque nationale de France. Laor, Holy Land, 864; Meurer, Strabo, p.123; Tooley, Italian… Read More

Venice,: ex aenis formis Bolognini Zalterii,, 1566.. 437 by 736mm. (17.25 by 29 inches).. Forlani state 4, Zaltieri state 3, separately issued. 2 sheets joined. Engraved view (355 by 735mm) above 23-line engraved key (horizontal separation between view and text repaired, old folds, close-cropped, left and right-hand margins with minor repairs). Magnificent, large-scale, bird's-eye view of Venice, first published in 1565, this is the third issue to bear Zaltieri's imprint and features the printed impressions of a horizontal row of rivets where the printers had attempted to join the engraved plates of the view and the key. Shown from the same perspective as Jacopo de' Barbari's monumental woodcut map of c1500, Venice is seen rising like Venus fully formed from the lagoon, witnessed by an array of satellite islands and watercraft, the Venetian mainland compressed to a thin band at the horizon and to the left. Each canal, bridge and building is meticulously depicted and named in the comprehensive key… Read More

[Venice,, 1562 and c1568].. 680 by 775mm. (26.75 by 30.5 inches).. Engraved map on three sheets joined, bearing three watermarks, upper left sheet with ladder in shield under cross pommy B (Woodward 256), upper right with lamb, paschal with straight standard C (Woodward 48), lower sheet, only lower half of ladder in shield under six-pointed star K (Woodward 253). A fine example of Gastaldi's map Southeast Asia, the most influential map of the region published in the sixteenth century, and the first map to name Singapore; here present with the rare southern extension sheet, incorporating the Java and the lucrative Spice Islands. Giacomo Gastaldi (c1500-1567), originally from Piedmont, established himself as a cartographer in Venice, where he was given the notable title of 'Cosmographer to the Republic'. He was a prolific mapmaker, with a body of work numbering at least 109 pieces, including contributions to the 1548 Venice edition of Ptolemy's 'Geogra a', and Ramusio's 'Navigationi et viaggi'.… Read More