L Isole piu famose del Mondo descritte da Thomaso Porcacchi da Castiglione arretino e intagliate da Girolamo Porro

Porcacchi/ Porro Tomasso ( 1530 - 1585 ) Venice

Verlag: Artist: Porcacchi/ Porro Tomasso ( - 1585 ) Venice issued in: Venice; - Girolamo Porro (c 1520 - after 1604) was an Italian engraver on wood and on copper He was born at Padua but worked during the greater part of his life in Venice He engraved for a book entitled Imprese illustri di diversi published by Camillo Camilli in 1535 He also executed the plates for the Orlando Furioso of Ariosto published at Venice in 1584 for the Funerali antichi di diversi Popoli et Natione by Tommaso Porcacchi published in 1574; and the portraits for the Sommario delle Vite do' Duchi di Milano by Scipione Barbuo 1574 The maps in Girolamo Ruscelli's translation of the Geographia of Ptolemy 1574 and the maps in Porcacchi's Isole piu famose del Mondo first publis, 1530

Technic: Copper print, colorit: original colored, condition: Binding in leather, titel in gold embossing, size (in cm): 29,5 x 21,5 cm cm; - Atlas with preface and index shows on 202 pages 48 magnificently coloured copper engraved maps and some col. Woodcut initials in the text by G. Porro. Islands and peninsulas (e.g. Island, Malta, Sardinia, Elba, Majorca, Great Britain, Scotland, the Moluccas, Ceylon, Jamaica, Cuba, Hispaniola, Cyprus, Crete and many more) are depicted. Furthermore, a title page, the world (2x), North America, Venice, Mexico City, Constantinople, etc. Padua 1620, Appresso Paolo et Francesco Galignani Fratelli. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers B0033_500

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Titel: L Isole piu famose del Mondo descritte da ...
Verlag: Artist: Porcacchi/ Porro Tomasso ( - 1585 ) Venice issued in: Venice; - Girolamo Porro (c 1520 - after 1604) was an Italian engraver on wood and on copper He was born at Padua but worked during the greater part of his life in Venice He engraved for a book entitled Imprese illustri di diversi published by Camillo Camilli in 1535 He also executed the plates for the Orlando Furioso of Ariosto published at Venice in 1584 for the Funerali antichi di diversi Popoli et Natione by Tommaso Porcacchi published in 1574; and the portraits for the Sommario delle Vite do' Duchi di Milano by Scipione Barbuo 1574 The maps in Girolamo Ruscelli's translation of the Geographia of Ptolemy 1574 and the maps in Porcacchi's Isole piu famose del Mondo first publis
Erscheinungsdatum: 1530
Einband: Hardcover