This is a beautiful, original map of the African continent, from the 1575 edition of Theatrum Orbis Terrarum by Abraham Ortelius. This is the fifth... Show moreThis is a beautiful, original map of the African continent, from the 1575 edition of Theatrum Orbis Terrarum by Abraham Ortelius. This is the fifth state of the copperplate, still the date 1570 is present in the cartouche, which was removed between 1606 and 1612 (van den Broecke). At the time of its publication it was the most expensive book ever produced. Between 1570 and 1612, it was issued in 31 editions and 7 languages. This map of Africa is based upon Gastaldi's 8 sheet wall map and Mercator's world map of 1569. The map was the first widely disseminated modernized map of Africa in the latter part of the 16th Century and became the standard map of the continent until well into the 17th Century. Relief shown pictorially. Title in decorative strapwork cartouche flanked by two caryatids. Map of Africa including part of Asia. Three sea monsters appear in the ocean and three ships are engaged in battle in the Indian Ocean. Map is based on the Gastaldi 8-sheet wall map of 1564 and Mercator's wall map of 1569 with some modifications engraved by Frans Hogenberg. Scale derived from latitude lines. Coordinates converted to Greenwich meridian. Latin text on verso with title: "Africa." Last line of text: "Ximo, habes litteras Ioannis Baptistae Rhamusi, & Hieronymi Fracastorij" points to the map published in a 1592 Latin edition of Theatrum Orbis Terrarum--(Van den Boecke, Koemans 31:041) From: Ortelius' Theatrum Orbis Terrarum. Main Heritage Compact General HC.MAP.00274 Print Map Item-ID: i11400687 BIB-ID: 1845455 Abraham Ortelius was born 1527 in Antwerp. He studied mathematics, Greek and Latin and travelled a lot across Europe. He established a business in dealing with books and drawing maps. His first remarkable map was a 8 sheet world map in the year 1564, but only three copies have survived. In 1570 he issued the "Theatrum Orbis Terrarum", the first modern "Atlas" with uniformly sized maps in a systematic collection. The term "Atlas" was not used until Mercator introduced it 20 years later. Most of the maps in Theatrum were engraved by Frans Hogenberg. Atlas Despite its expense, it was a big success and around 7000 copies were printed until 1612, in many editions and six different languages. Beside the Theatrum, Ortelius compiled a series of historical maps and published it in the "Parergon Theatri," which was bound with the Theatrum from 1579 onwards, or published separately. Show less
Iacobo Castaldo Pedemontano authore. Gerhardus de Iode excudebat. Ioannes à deutecum, Lucas à deutecum fecerunt. Engraving attributed to Antonie... Show moreIacobo Castaldo Pedemontano authore. Gerhardus de Iode excudebat. Ioannes à deutecum, Lucas à deutecum fecerunt. Engraving attributed to Antonie Wierix. Imprint: [Antwerp] : Gerhardus de Iode excudebat, [1578 or 1593?]. Main Heritage Display General HC.MAP.00111 Print Map Item-ID: i17065926 BIB-ID: 2764295 Show less
Iacobo Castaldo pedemontano authore ; Gerhardus de Iode excudebat. Map of the Arabian Peninsula also showing parts of north Africa and Persia with... Show moreIacobo Castaldo pedemontano authore ; Gerhardus de Iode excudebat. Map of the Arabian Peninsula also showing parts of north Africa and Persia with relief shown pictorially. In lower margin: Ioannes ʹa deutecum, Lucas ʹa deutercum secerunt. Plate 9 from: Speculum orbis terrarum / Gerard de Jode and Cornelis de Jode. Antwerp : Arnold Coninx, 1593. Text on verso: Asiae secunda pars sive Arabia (fol. 9). Main Heritage Compact General HC.MAP.00095 Print Map Item-ID: i17065884 BIB-ID: 1525252 In Latin. Show less
Main Heritage Compact General HC.MAP.00066 Print Map Item-ID: i11401436 BIB-ID: 2762467 Show moreMain Heritage Compact General HC.MAP.00066 Print Map Item-ID: i11401436 BIB-ID: 2762467 Show less
Autore Iacobo Castaldo. Gerhardus de Iode excudebat. Ioannes à Deutecum, Lucas à Deutecum fece. Verso has text in Latin under title: Asiae prima... Show moreAutore Iacobo Castaldo. Gerhardus de Iode excudebat. Ioannes à Deutecum, Lucas à Deutecum fece. Verso has text in Latin under title: Asiae prima pars sive Persicum Regnum Based on Gastaldi's map of 1561 Relief shown pictorially The map shows parts of Turkish Empire and Persian Empire. Copperplate. - Scale in graph. Form (Miliaria Italica). Main Heritage Compact General HC.MAP.00482 Print Map Item-ID: i11401710 BIB-ID: 1172514 Show less
This is a beautiful, original map of the African continent, from the 1575 edition of Theatrum Orbis Terrarum by Abraham Ortelius. This is the fifth... Show moreThis is a beautiful, original map of the African continent, from the 1575 edition of Theatrum Orbis Terrarum by Abraham Ortelius. This is the fifth state of the copperplate, still the date 1570 is present in the cartouche, which was removed between 1606 and 1612 (van den Broecke). At the time of its publication it was the most expensive book ever produced. Between 1570 and 1612, it was issued in 31 editions and 7 languages. This map of Africa is based upon Gastaldi's 8 sheet wall map and Mercator's world map of 1569. The map was the first widely disseminated modernized map of Africa in the latter part of the 16th Century and became the standard map of the continent until well into the 17th Century. Relief shown pictorially. Title in decorative strapwork cartouche flanked by two caryatids. Map of Africa including part of Asia. Three sea monsters appear in the ocean and three ships are engaged in battle in the Indian Ocean. Map is based on the Gastaldi 8-sheet wall map of 1564 and Mercator's wall map of 1569 with some modifications engraved by Frans Hogenberg. Scale derived from latitude lines. Coordinates converted to Greenwich meridian. Latin text on verso with title: "Africa." Last line of text: "Ximo, habes litteras Ioannis Baptistae Rhamusi, & Hieronymi Fracastorij" points to the map published in a 1592 Latin edition of Theatrum Orbis Terrarum--(Van den Boecke, Koemans 31:041) From: Ortelius' Theatrum Orbis Terrarum. Main Heritage Compact General HC.MAP.00274 Print Map Item-ID: i11400687 BIB-ID: 1845455 Abraham Ortelius was born 1527 in Antwerp. He studied mathematics, Greek and Latin and travelled a lot across Europe. He established a business in dealing with books and drawing maps. His first remarkable map was a 8 sheet world map in the year 1564, but only three copies have survived. In 1570 he issued the "Theatrum Orbis Terrarum", the first modern "Atlas" with uniformly sized maps in a systematic collection. The term "Atlas" was not used until Mercator introduced it 20 years later. Most of the maps in Theatrum were engraved by Frans Hogenberg. Atlas Despite its expense, it was a big success and around 7000 copies were printed until 1612, in many editions and six different languages. Beside the Theatrum, Ortelius compiled a series of historical maps and published it in the "Parergon Theatri," which was bound with the Theatrum from 1579 onwards, or published separately. Show less
Main Heritage Compact General HC.MAP.00066 Print Map Item-ID: i11401436 BIB-ID: 2762467 Show moreMain Heritage Compact General HC.MAP.00066 Print Map Item-ID: i11401436 BIB-ID: 2762467 Show less
This map is Copper-plate engraving, an enlargement of Gastaldi, Giacomos map of 1548, but is certainly better drawn, more finely done than the... Show moreThis map is Copper-plate engraving, an enlargement of Gastaldi, Giacomos map of 1548, but is certainly better drawn, more finely done than the earlier one, but with less detail. Italian text on verso, it also provides more information than the standard maps. The Qatar peninsula south east of Bahrain (Baharam) can be clearly distinguished. The sea monster was not shown on the 1548 Map. This map is published in 1561 and reprinted in 1562, 1564 and 1574 and completely reworked for Geographia di Claudio Tolemeo in 1598-1599. Main Heritage Compact General HC.MAP.01017 Print Map Item-ID: i11402684 BIB-ID: 1783522 Show less
autore Iacobo Castaldo pedemontano ; Gerhardus de Iode excudebat. Map of Asia from Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Persia, Afghanistan to southern Russia with... Show moreautore Iacobo Castaldo pedemontano ; Gerhardus de Iode excudebat. Map of Asia from Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Persia, Afghanistan to southern Russia with relief shown pictorially. Plate 8 from: Speculum orbis terrarum / Gerard de Jode and Cornelis de Jode. Antwerp : Arnold Coninx, 1593. Text on verso: Asiae prima pars sive Persicum regnum (fol. 8). The map covers 60°-118° E. 27°-55° N. It shows Turkish Empire and Northern parts of A. Peninsula. Scale: Gerhrdus de Iode excudebat,400 [ben. cart.] Main Heritage Compact General HC.MAP.00455 Print Map Item-ID: i11401242 BIB-ID: 1172467 In Latin. Show less
Main Heritage Display General HC.MAP.00054 Print Map Item-ID: i17065598 BIB-ID: 1525219 Copy at C.20.a.1. After fol. 214 new section, across sig. 45 v... Show moreMain Heritage Display General HC.MAP.00054 Print Map Item-ID: i17065598 BIB-ID: 1525219 Copy at C.20.a.1. After fol. 214 new section, across sig. 45 v and conjugate r. Uk Show less
di Claudio Ptolemeo Alessandrino Con alcuni comenti & aggiunte fatteui da Sebastiano munstero... con le tavole non solamente antiche & moderne... Show moredi Claudio Ptolemeo Alessandrino Con alcuni comenti & aggiunte fatteui da Sebastiano munstero... con le tavole non solamente antiche & moderne solite di stãparsi, ma altre nuove aggiuntevi di Iacopo Gastaldo... ridotta in volgare Italia da Pietro Andrea Mattiolo... Show less
Main Heritage Compact General HC.MAP.00238 Print Map Item-ID: i23762007 BIB-ID: 2531959 Show moreMain Heritage Compact General HC.MAP.00238 Print Map Item-ID: i23762007 BIB-ID: 2531959 Show less
All' illmo. Sigr. il Sr. Marcho Fucharo Barone di Kirchberg e' d' Waisenhoren ; Giacomo di Castaldi Piamotese Cosmographo in Venetia. Second state Ma... Show moreAll' illmo. Sigr. il Sr. Marcho Fucharo Barone di Kirchberg e' d' Waisenhoren ; Giacomo di Castaldi Piamotese Cosmographo in Venetia. Second state Map of the Arabian Peninsula, northeast Africa and western Asia with relief shown pictorially. Description Rare Second State of the Most Important 16th Century Map of the Middle East, etc. Fine example of Giacomo Gastaldi's rare 2-sheet wall map of the Middle East, covering Egypt, the Holy Land, the Horn of Africa, the Arabian Peninsula, and extending east across the Arabian Sea to the west coast of India. Gastaldi's 2-sheet map of the region is generally considered to be the single most influential map of the region published in the 16th century. The map would later be directly copied by Abraham Ortelius, Cornelis De Jode and Gerard Mercator in their respective atlases and other maps. In describing the map, Taleghani, et al noted: "In this large-scale map there appeared for the first time much material which was to recur in all western maps for the next century and a half, (Tibbetts, 1978:20). Gastaldi's representation of the Gulf broke with the Ptolemaic model: no longer a rectangle, it acquires its form of a segment and begins to take on its true contours. Ortelius, Mercator and other Dutch geographers then based their depictions of the Gulf on Gastaldi. Suarez describes at length the sources and innovations used by Gastaldi for all of his Asian continental maps, but foremost the three-sectional maps "had a major influence on the work of Ortelius and de Jode... In their representation of the coastlines his maps are superior to all previous known maps of Asia, either drawn by hand or printed" (Schilder in The Map Collector no. 17, p. 7). Nordenskiöld notes: Finally, it must be remembered that Gastaldi, under the guidance of Ramusio, is supposed to have aided in repairing or repainting the famous wall-maps in Sala dello scudo in Venice . . . If such was the case, it may be considered probable that the monumental maps of Africa and Asia by Gastaldi have had some connection to [Gastaldi's map of Asia], that these copper-plate engravings are a reproduction of the originals of the wall maps in that form which was given them in the middle of the sixteenth century. State The present example is a rare variant edition, bearing the imprint of "Petri de Nobilibus Formis." Pietro de Nobilis was a successor of Lafreri in Rome after 1580. Also, above the scale of miles is a further imprint reading: "In Roma appresso Paulo de Graciam." Rarity The second state is extremely rare. Tooley located only a single example in the Beans collection (now sold). Stefano Bifolco, in his recent census for his upcoming book on Italian Printed Maps from the 16th Century locates only 2 examples, Malta National Library and Jerusalem National Library (ex-Laor). Condition Description 2-sheets joined. Reference Cartographie Historique du Golfe Persique, Taleghani, Couo and Bacque-Grammont, 2006, p 152. Tooley, Maps in Italian Atlases of the Sixteenth Century, #54. Giacomo Gastaldi Biography Giacomo Gastaldi (1500-1566) is considered the foremost Italian cartographer of the sixteenth century, alongside Paolo Forlani. His skills of compilation are comparable to those of Mercator and Ortelius, yet much less is known of his life than of his two contemporaries. Gastaldi was born in Villafranca, Piedmont, but had established himself in Venice by 1539. He originally worked as an engineer, but turned to mapmaking from the 1540s onward. It was in Venice where he made his reputation as an engraver, geographer, and cosmographer; for example, he was asked to fresco maps of Asia and Africa in the Palace of the Doge, or the Council of Ten, Venice’s governmental body. He also frequently consulted on projects for the Savi sopra la Laguna, drawing maps for this body which oversaw the regulation of fresh and salt water around Venice. His contemporaries also recognized his skill, as he was named cosmographer to the Republic of Venice, was a member of the Accademia Veneziana, and was a major source for other geographers and mapmakers including Camocio, Bertelli, Cock, Luchini, and Ortelius. He even had his own distinct style of copper engraving that made him a pioneer in his day and makes his works iconic today. Gastaldi enjoyed an especially productive relationship with Giovanni Battista Ramusio, Secretary of the Venetian Senate, who used Gastaldi's maps for his famous travel account collection, Navigationi et Viaggi. Gastaldi also tutored Ramusio's son in cosmography. Main Heritage Compact General HC.MAP.00894 Print Map Item-ID: i25704424 BIB-ID: 2727736 Show less
