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Lugduni Batavorum, Ex Officina Elzeviriana, 1619.
Folio, artistic frontispiece engraved on copper with title enclosed in a frame with allegorical and mythological figures on the sides, pp. 16 nos. including the title page - 510-12 nn with 5 geographical maps engraved on copper on a double sheet: Ancient Sicily with Latin toponyms - Ancient Sicily with Greek toponyms - Ancient Syracuse - Eastern Islands and ancient Corsica and ancient Sardinia. Light marginal browning. Artistic modern binding, imitating a seventeenth-century binding in full brown leather, spine with six compartments, gusset with gold title, frames and embossed friezes on the plates. Very rare original edition.
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Filippo Cluverio (Danzig, 1580 – Leiden, 31 December 1622 is considered the founder of historical geography. Previous scholars of this discipline, such as Giacomo Gastaldi and the Flemish Abramo Ortelio, had essentially worked as humanists, studying exclusively the classical texts, the epigraphic documents, etc. Cluverio instead largely availed himself of the observations made personally on the places. For this reason his works, and especially those on Italy and Sicily - to which Luca Holstenio, companion to the C. . in pilgrimages across our peninsula - they still consult with profit. C. has the merit of having first demonstrated how the reconstruction of the geographical conditions of past ages is not possible without the direct observation of present conditions. Filippo Cluverio (Danzig, 1580 – Leiden, 31 December 1622 is considered the founder of historical geography. Previous scholars of this discipline, such as Giacomo Gastaldi and the Flemish Abramo Ortelio, had essentially worked as humanists, studying exclusively classical texts, epigraphic documents, etc. Cluverio instead relied largely on observations made personally on the sites. For this reason his works, and especially those on Italy and Sicily - to which Luca Holstenio, companion of C. in his wanderings across our peninsula, made judicious corrections and additions - are still consulted with profit. C. has the merit of having first demonstrated how the reconstruction of the geographical conditions of past ages is not possible without the direct observation of present conditions
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