Raccolta di le piv illvstri et famose citta di tvtto il mondo.

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Bibliographic Details
OCLC:302367094
Main Author: Valesio, Francesco, b. ca. 1560
Other Authors: Rota, Martin, 1520-1583, Braun, Georg, 1540 or 41-1622
Language:Latin
Italian
Published: [Venice : s.n., 1595]
Series:Italian books before 1601. reel 65, item 1.
Subjects:
Cities and towns > Europe > Pictorial works > Early works to 1800.
Cities and towns > Middle East > Pictorial works > Early works to 1800.
Cities and towns, Renaissance > Pictorial works > Early works to 1800.
Prints, Italian > 16th century.
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Description
Item Description:Imprint from reel guide.
All but first plate are map-views of cities.
Filmed copy lacks maps numbered 191-199; mss. index at end omits 191-199.
Engraved t.p. with architectural border on double page.
Braun & Hogenberg's Civitates orbis terrarum (Cologne, 1572-1617) is the main source for the present work. Limited use was made of 4 additional works: De' disegni delle piu illustri citta & fortezze del mondo / Giulio Ballino (Venice, 1569); La cosmographie universelle de tout le monde / Francois de Belle-Forest; Theatrum urbium italicarum / Petrus Bertellius (Venice, 1599); Cosmographiae universalis libri V / Sebastian Münster (Basel, 1572). See Seifert, p. [23]
Of views that are signed, most are by Francesco Valesio. Many plates signed variously: Fr. Vallegio, Frco. Valegio, Franco. Valezp; others unsigned. Five are by Martin Rota (Algiers, Constantinople, Lepanto, Rhodes, Venice). The views of Algiers, Constantinople and Rhodes are dated 1572. Seifert reports that the signature is lacking in many impressions of the view of Constantinople.
Includes views of Cuzco and Mexico City.
Physical Description:ca. 136 prints : etching, b&w ; page size 14 x 21 cm.

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