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1600304<p>c. 1600. Engraving. After Coninxloo. Holl. 23; Le Blanc 13. 13 x 19½. Trimmed to platemark.</p>
157447005Venice Venetia: Printed by Simon Calignani 1574. First edition. Hardcover. Very good condition. Quarto. 8 109 1pp. Rebound in full leather with ornate period blind-stamped decor on covers gilt lettering on spine; raised bands. Red edges. Title page with elaborate architectural framing. Historiated woodcut initials. Twenty-three headpiece copper engravings 3 3/4 x6" for each chapter and tailpiece vignettes. Contains author's dedication to Ottaviano Manini and five page table of notable facts Index with errata note. Woodcut on colophon at rear is the printer's device initialed S. C. K. with his motto "The Tower and the Strength of my God."<br /> <br /> Famous work on ancient customs of funeral rites and ceremonies among Romans Egyptians Greeks Indians Scythians Cavemen and Christians by author and cartographer Thomaso Porcacchi illustrated by Girolamo Porro. Written as a dialog between author and two characters praising the talent of Girolamo Porro and the quality of his work. Porro who's eyesight was impaired is also credited with the design of a "flying machine" able to transport many man. Porro also illustrated Porcacchi's 1572 publication "Isole piu famose del Mondo Most Famous Islands of the World." Porcacchi's work on funeral rites known to have been consulted in arranging high profile funerals e.g. that of Cosimo I. de Medici. Text in Italian. Page 51 misnumbered 15. Binding with light wear along edges light streaking to boards. Some offsetting along edges of free endpapers form leather binding. Original endpapers and title page with some age-toning else only minor blemishes in block. Printed by Simon Calignani hardcover
1550ABC_49514Italy 1550. 17th-century gold-tooled brown calf sewn on 6 supports with the corresponding raised bands on the spine a red morocco title label on the spine with the title "Novissima urbis Romae descriptio" lettered in gold gold-tooled board edges. Large oblong folio ca. 59 x 42.3 cm. With 76 full-page engravings and 12 full-page etchings. Remarkable album with 77 beautiful examples of 16th-century Italian cartography all in very fine dark impressions. The collection includes plans of important Italian towns such as Rome Venice Genoa Naples Milan Florence Palermo Siena Bologna and Pisa as well as detailed views of individual buildings and monuments in Rome. They are engraved by several cartographers from the school of Antonio Lafreri 1512-1577 primarily Claudio Duchetti d. 1585 Matteo Florimi d. 1613 and Lafreri himself. Florimi's works are among the rarest of the Lafreri school map makers especially his Siena imprints of which several have here been included.In the middle of the 16th century Italy was the centre of map production and distribution in Europe. This industry primarily took place in Venice and Rome. The most notable of the publishers in Rome was Lafreri. His most important and most popular work is the Speculum Romanae magnificentiae a collection of plans an views of Rome's monuments; no two copies of the Speculum are the same. The present collection contains more than thirty plates from the Speculum. When Lafreri died his nephew Claudio Duchetti inherited the company. He continued to produce the Speculum plates but often made small adjustments and signed his own name at the bottom. Most of the Speculum plates in the present album are by Duchetti. After his death the copperplates were sold to other publishers such as Giovanni Orlandi before 1590-after 1640 who reissued them. The majority of the plates in the present album were printed by Orlandi in 1602.The album further contains 32 engraved city plans mostly of Italian towns although a few foreign cities are also included; one of the rarest is the view of Moscow which is also included here. The collection ends with a incomplete series of 11 etchings of landscapes and biblical scenes.A list of contents is available upon request.With the bookplate of Louis Routy de Charodon seigneur de Grésigny and Charodon 1710-1794 on the front pastedown and remnants of another bookplate above. The boards are somewhat scratched and stained the spine shows traces of use the edges of the boards have been professionally restored and the boards have been lengthened to fit the maps. The maps are slightly browned some are slightly foxed the first few maps have been mounted onto 17th-century leaves the longer maps are somewhat soiled on the fore edge three maps are restored at the fore edge and one at the bottom edge some maps have been cut slightly short. Otherwise in good condition.l Cf. Parshall P. "Antonio Lafreri's "Speculum Romanae magnificentiae"" in: Print Quarterly vol. 23 1 2006 pp. 3-28. hardcover
