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Subject(s)

• Cities and towns—Middle East—Maps—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Cities and towns—Europe—Maps—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Cities and towns—Europe—Pictorial works—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Cities and towns—Middle East—Pictorial works—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Cities and towns, Renaissance—Pictorial works—Early works to 1800 [Browse]

Related name

• Rota, Martin, 1520-1583 [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• Topographical views—Italy—16th century [Browse]
• Etchings—Italy—16th century [Browse]

Related work(s)

Braun, Georg, 1540 or 1-1622. Civitates orbis terrarum. [Browse]

Notes

• 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. 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.
• The views are printed two at a time, side by side on a sheet, which is then folded with another to make a gathering of 4. Thus the first 2 views of a gathering appear on the versos of their leaves and the last 2 on the rectos.

Language note

Title leaf in Italian, legends of prints in Latin.

Provenance

Handwritten index on lining papers by previous owner.

References

Seifert, T. Raccolta di le più illustri et famose città di tutto il mondo.

OCLC

646107141

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