Girolamo Ruscelli - Vincenzo Valgrisi

LN 1048

Italy > Italy, Corsica

"Tavola Nuova d' Italia"

Modern map of Italy with its Mediterranean islands, with the northern parts of Sicily and Sardinia, and with Corsica.

Etching from a Geography of Ptolemy edited by Girolamo Ruscelli, printed and published by Vincenzo Valgrisi, Venice 1561, 18,5 x 24,5 cm.

€ 390,-

Maps by Italian mapmakers of the 16th century are worked out very fine and are famous for their elegant design. Remained copies are quite rare. Zögner, Imago Germaniae, p 14.

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