At head of title: L. M. Nesbitt. Translated and abridged by the author from his "La Dancalla esplorata". Firenze, 1930. London edition (London and... Show moreAt head of title: L. M. Nesbitt. Translated and abridged by the author from his "La Dancalla esplorata". Firenze, 1930. London edition (London and Toronto, J. Cape) has title: Desert and forest. "First American edition." Main Heritage Shelves General DT390.A4 N45 1935 Book Item-ID: i10100581 BIB-ID: 1011694 Also issued online. Show less
Description and travel, Description and travel, DS257 .V35 1658
Published within the first complete and reliable edition of della Valle's "Viaggi", the present volume constitutes the first part of the author's... Show morePublished within the first complete and reliable edition of della Valle's "Viaggi", the present volume constitutes the first part of the author's Persian travels (March 1617-May 1619), spent in Isfahan and at Ferhabad. Pietro della Valle (1586-1652) left Venice in 1614 on a pilgrimage to Palestine, proceeding to Baghdad and then into Persia, where he married and sojourned in the court of Shah Abbas. He continued his travels east to the coast of India, Goa and Muscat, and thence back to Aleppo by way of Basra. He reached Rome in 1626, where the original Italian text of his letters written to the Neapolitan physician Mario Schipano was published. Only the first volume, dealing with Turkey, saw print during his lifetime. The two-part volume II on Persia was released in 1658, four years after his death; in 1662 the Turkey volume saw a second edition, and the set was concluded in 1663 with the volume discussing India. A one-volume English translation of the Indian travels appeared in 1665. - Binding rubbed; inner hinges rather crudely reinforced. Somewhat brownstained throughout; a few pencil marginalia. From the collection of the Modena-born abbot Giacomo Crispi (1693-1774), a member of Muratori's circle, with his ms. ownership (dated 1737) to t. p. 33609(2). Vittorio Alfieri Firenze 1793. Demi-rel. parchemin. Main Heritage Shelves General DS257 .V35 1658 Book Item-ID: i1687559x BIB-ID: 1510981 Show less
Appears in: Isolario, descrittione geografico-historica, sacro-profana ... di tutte l'isole ... del globo terracqueo / del P. maestro Vincenzo... Show moreAppears in: Isolario, descrittione geografico-historica, sacro-profana ... di tutte l'isole ... del globo terracqueo / del P. maestro Vincenzo Coronelli, 1696. Parte II, p. 113. At head of page: Isolario del P. Coronelli. Includes a decorative circle of text in lower left which is encircled with the statement: Auvertimento alli nauigli che partono da Goa per andare al Capo di Buona Speranza per il di Fuori di Madagascar. Appears to have been struck from the engraving plate for a globe gore. In upper right: 113. On verso: incomplete text. At upper right: 114. Annotated in pencil in lower right: Coronelli - 1691. This map is on a sheet which has been removed from an unidentified volume of Isolario. The sheet has been torn below the map to include only two lines of text; the remaining text is missing. This segment of globe gore covers the region from Oman to the Western part of India. Quest'è l'autico,sentiero secondo le relazioni. [cart. italian text.]. Main Heritage Compact General HC.MAP.00314 Print Map Item-ID: i11400833 BIB-ID: 1172426 Show less
Descritto dal P. Coronelli, Cosmografo Publico. World map Planisphere Dedication: "Dedicato All'Illustrisimo, et Eccellentissimo Signore Pietro... Show moreDescritto dal P. Coronelli, Cosmografo Publico. World map Planisphere Dedication: "Dedicato All'Illustrisimo, et Eccellentissimo Signore Pietro Marcello Senatore Amplissimo, Fratello dell'Eccellentis. Sig. Federico, Procuratore di S. Marco" A detailed map with boundaries. In Arabia only few towns are marked. Signs of Zodiac surround the globe. Scale [low l. & r. h.] Includes on pedestals on either side of the map geographic data for various cities. On the circumference of the map various coordinate data and the signs of the zodiac. Main Heritage Compact General HC.MAP.00492 Print Map Item-ID: i11404425 BIB-ID: 1172785 Show less
At head of title: L. M. Nesbitt. Translated and abridged by the author from his "La Dancalla esplorata". Firenze, 1930. London edition (London and... Show moreAt head of title: L. M. Nesbitt. Translated and abridged by the author from his "La Dancalla esplorata". Firenze, 1930. London edition (London and Toronto, J. Cape) has title: Desert and forest. "First American edition." Also issued online. 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
