LEVANTO, FRANCESCO MARIA.Prima parte dello Specchio del Mare. Genoa: Gerolamo Marino & Benedetto Celle, 1664.
Folio (407 x 275 mm). Title within wide engraved border, 25 engraved maps (24 double-page), numerous woodcut illustrations in text. Contemporary vellum. Covers soiled, margins of maps trimmed close to or into plate lines, some dampstaining, a few paper repairs, not affecting text, browning and spotting.
Provenance: Enrichetta Hensemberger Rivolta (bookplate).
FIRST EDITION of this rare pilot atlas of the Mediterranean, with Italian text probably translated from the 1662 Zee-spiegel of Pieter Goos, and maps engraved by Levanto. Little is known of Levanto's life and work, aside from this atlas. Koeman IV, Lev 1; NMM 3:42; Shirley British Library, M.LEV-Ia.
LEVANTO, FRANCESCO MARIA.Prima parte dello Specchio del Mare. Genoa: Gerolamo Marino & Benedetto Celle, 1664.
Folio (407 x 275 mm). Title within wide engraved border, 25 engraved maps (24 double-page), numerous woodcut illustrations in text. Contemporary vellum. Covers soiled, margins of maps trimmed close to or into plate lines, some dampstaining, a few paper repairs, not affecting text, browning and spotting.
Provenance: Enrichetta Hensemberger Rivolta (bookplate).
FIRST EDITION of this rare pilot atlas of the Mediterranean, with Italian text probably translated from the 1662 Zee-spiegel of Pieter Goos, and maps engraved by Levanto. Little is known of Levanto's life and work, aside from this atlas. Koeman IV, Lev 1; NMM 3:42; Shirley British Library, M.LEV-Ia.
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