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In Venetia, After Lodovico degli Avanzi, 1568. 4th, 8 cc. no. 504 cc. number; 33 cc.nn. For the "Description of all the Islands" (with title page dated 1567) 100 cc. num.-5 cc.nn. with 7 geographical maps engraved on copper on a double sheet depicting the islands of Corsica, Sardinia, the islands of the Tuscan Sea, the islands of the Gulf of Naples, Sicily, Tremiti and Venice. Some cards with light browning and small woodworm work on the internal margin of the first cards. Eighteenth-century binding in full parchment, cords, title and friezes in gold on the spine, large dry-engraved "fleuron" on the plates.
Specialist Notes
Beautiful and important work of a geographical nature but also full of information on the history, habits and customs of the various regions of Italy "and more about the famous men who illustrated it, the mountains, the lakes, the rivers, the fountains, the Baths, the Mines, with all the wonderful works produced in her by nature". Of notable interest is the brief reference to Vespucci's travels and the discovery of the New World. Leandro Alberti (1479-1552?), linked his name above all to this work, the first edition of which was published in Bologna in 1550 but without the geographical maps. This edition was followed, from 1551 to 1631, by ten others in Venice, and two in Cologne in Latin. The edition in question is the first in which the geographical maps appear. The work is created according to the intent, and largely along the lines, of Flavio Biondo's "Italia Illustrata"; that is, it is the work, in the words of A. himself, not of a cosmographer but of a "geographer, topographer and historian at the same time", so that overall it can be considered a large collection of material, useful above all for the developments of geographical and geopolitical science.
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