Lot no. 201
Alberti, Leandro. Descrittione di tutta Italia ...di F. Leandro Alberti Bolognese. Venezia, Ludovico degli Avanzi, 1568. Bound with : Isole appartenenti alla Italia. Venezia, Ludovico degli Avanzi, 1567 In-4°, contemporary soft ivory vellum, handwritten title on spine. Typographical mark on the title of both volumes. A fine copy. AP This enlarged edition includes 8 double-page maps of the "Islands", namely Corsica, Sardinia, Sicily, the Tremiti Islands, the Tuscan archipelago, the Pontine archipelago and the islands of the Gulf of Naples, and ends with a fine aerial view of Venice. The representation of Corsica belongs to the first printed views. This work was fundamental to the science of cartography that followed.
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13006 Marseille - France
04/24/2025
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