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1st Edition. Excellent. Very faint offsetting, else fine with generous margins. Size 7.5 x 9.5 Inches. This is Girolamo Ruscelli's 1561 map of Egypt. It is the second modern map of the Lower Nile, predated only by the 1548 Gastaldi map, upon which it is based. It is among the earliest acquirable maps to show the Nile Delta with contemporaneous information; it is also one of the first printed maps to depict the Egyptian Pyramids. A Closer Look Ruscelli's map follows the 1548 map of fellow Venetian Giacomo Gastaldi; the elegant engraving here was executed by Giulio Sanuto. It extends from the desert of Marmarica (eastern Libya) to the Sinai Peninsula and the northern part of the Red Sea. It is centered on the Nile River Delta; its southernmost placename on the Nile is Manfalut, still an extant placename. Many cities are noted, including Alexandria, Cairo, and Rosetta. At several points along the west bank of the Nile, pyramids are noted, not just the site of the Great Pyramids at Giza, but further south as well, perhaps corresponding to the Roman-era Qasr El-Farafra rather than more ancient Pyramids. Gastaldi's sources are unknown. Some features - such as the Torre de li Arabi , found to the west of Alexandria - appear in Medieval sources such as the c. 1320 Sanuto-Vesconte and the c. 1375 Catalan Atlas. But Gastaldi's overall presentation of the Nile Delta, replete with its modern placenames and placement of the Pyramids, has no known precursor. Considering Gastaldi's other Tabulae Modernae , his sources may have been Portuguese; certainly, the Portuguese were eagerly exploring northeastern Africa and the Nile during the early 16th century. Many of the placenames appear to be Latinizations of Arabic names, so it is also possible that Gastaldi had more direct reports. While a later derivative of the 1548 Gastaldi map, this Ruscelli has much to recommend it. Ruscelli's iteration of the map is twice the size of the Gastaldi, and Sanuto's engraving is far superior to that of the earlier work. Publication History and Census This map was engraved by Giulio Sanuto for inclusion in the 1561 first edition of La Geografia di Claudio Tolomeo . The first state can be recognized by a pressmark that runs off the top of the page, as here. Beginning in 1574, a second state of the plate appears, with a platemark running fully around the map. A third state appeared in 1598 with a new letterpress title and the addition of a sea monster and a sailing galley. Four examples of the separate map are listed in OCLC; the map does appear on the market from time to time. References: OCLC 165592081. Rumsey 11311.117 (1561).

Very good. Soiling to margins and faint offsetting. Neat manuscript notation and embellishment of cities in an old hand. Size 7.25 x 9.25 Inches. This is a handsome example of Girolamo Ruscelli's 1561 / 1574 map of Southeast Asia and the Malay Peninsula. The region was known to ancient geographers as 'India Extra Gangem,' or 'India Beyond the Ganges'. A Closer Look The map thus embraces Thailand, Burma, and Vietnam, reaching from the tip of the Malay Peninsula to the Himalayas in the north. The Ganges River is clearly shown and named. The Aurea chersonensis (the Malay Peninsula, possibly inclusive of Sumatra) and Aurea regio (Burma, generally) speak to the allure the region held to European armchair explorers (Aurea = Golden.). The map portrays two bodies of water, both with an array of named islands: the Indian Ocean (Mare Indicum) and the Sinus Magnus (the Great Bay). Beyond the Great Bay to the east is another coastline. This, according to Ptolemy's geography, was China . Cartographic Context Ptolemy considered the Indian Ocean to be an inland sea, with the southern part of Africa continuing eastward to meet China beyond the Malay peninsula. The Sinus Magnus was the body of water enclosed by Malay Peninsula and the landmass encircling the whole of the Indian Ocean. Certainly, the modern maps included in the editions of Ptolemy produced by Ruscelli and his contemporaries showed that by this time it was well understood that such a 'land bridge' between Africa and China did not exist - although some early mapmakers speculated that the eastern shore of the Sinus Magnus might actually have been the newly-discovered American Pacific coastline. The city of Cattigara , appearing in the extreme southeast of the present map, can be found on the South American coastline on the 1540 Münster America and the Oronce Fine world map produced the same year. Ancient Cartography Revisited Ruscelli's La geografia di Claudio Tolomeo Alessandrino was firstly a definitive edition of Ptolemy's ancient geographical text, and so Ruscelli's 16th-century maps shared a binding with maps like this one which reflected 2nd -century geographical knowledge. Ruscelli was not the only late Renaissance geographer to publish Ptolemy's work. The ancient maps in this edition were largely derived from the works issued by Giacomo Gastaldi in 1548, which in turn was much derived from Sebastian Münster's work of 1540. Publication History and Census The map was engraved by Giulio Sanuto for inclusion in Ruscelli's 1561 La geografia di Claudio Tolomeo Alessandrino , and the plate appeared in all editions of that work. The separate map is cataloged in 9 institutional collections, although it does appear on the market from time to time. The maps of the 1561 edition were engraved two-to-a-plate, and consequently, the platemark runs off the edge of the sheet at top for the 1561, 1562 and 1564 printings. Afterward, the plates were divided, and examples from 1574 onwards, as here, exhibit a platemark all around the map; furthermore, the plate shows considerable evidence of reworking, in many cases simplifying the form of the mountains to improve clarity. In 1599, letterpress was added to the upper border. The present example conforms typographically to the 1574 edition. We see about ten examples of this separate map cataloged in OCLC, in various editions. References: OCLC 7470062. Rumsey 11311.058. Curtis, R. and Durand, Fr. Maps of Malaysia and Borneo: Discovery, Statehood and Progress, no. 2.

1st Edition. Very good. Filled wormholes in upper margin just impacting title. Size 7.5 x 9.5 Inches. This is Girolamo Ruscelli's 1561 / 1574 map of India. It is among the earliest printed, modern maps of India - most earlier maps being iterations of Claudius Ptolemy's geographical information of the 2nd century. A Closer Look Ruscelli's map follows the 1548 map of fellow Venetian Giacomo Gastaldi. The present engraving, executed by Giulio Sanuto, is twice the size of the Gastaldi, and Sanuto's engraving is far superior to that of the earlier work in its clarity and legibility. Gastaldi's information shows knowledge of the depth of Portuguese penetration of the subcontinent. Guzarat, Goa, Calecut, Delhi and many other placenames appear. Sri Lanka (Ceilam) is shown in its correct location and is not conflated with Sumatra, as it is in most earlier Ptolemaic maps. The archaic term 'Taprobana' does not appear. The Maldives are shown with some exaggeration. Publication History and Census This map was engraved by Giulio Sanuto for inclusion in 1561 first edition of La Geografia di Claudio Tolomeo . The first state can be recognized by a pressmark that runs off the top of the page. The pressmark was retooled in 1574 with the second state of the plate (current example). A third state appeared in 1598 with a new letterpress title and some decorative additions. Seven examples of the separate map are listed in OCLC in various editions. References: OCLC 45533971. Rumsey 11311.117 (1561.) Gole, S., Early Maps of India, plate 4.

1st Edition. Very good. Some marginal spots. Size 7.25 x 10 Inches. This is Girolamo Ruscelli's 1561 / 1574 map of the East Indies and Southeast Asia, considered to be among the earliest maps of Southeast Asia. Although based on Giacomo Gastaldi's 1548 map of the same title, it is roughly twice the size and better engraved. An Unknown Land This map represents an early and necessarily flawed look at newly discovered lands. Suarez, in his Early Mapping of Southeast Asia , manages his readers' expectations: To view the three Gastaldi maps (of Asia), one must first erase from one's mind any image whatsoever of what the Philippine or Micronesian islands 'look' like; only then can one sympathize with the chaos of these Pacific incunabula. The Scope The region mapped spans from the Ganges Delta to Southern China (Canton is labeled). Bengal, Burma (Berma), Pegu, and Cambodia (Camboia) are named. The Malay Peninsula, Malacca, Sumatra, and Java are clearly noted. To the east, the first glimpses of the Philippines and the Spice Islands are recorded. The island of Ambon, visited by Antonio de Abreu in 1512, was among the targets inspiring Magellan's 1519 circumnavigation. Magellan's Philippines The map reflects a heavy reliance on data from Magellan's voyage, which had returned in 1522 - albeit without Magellan himself, who was killed in the Battle of Mactan the year before. The island of Magellan's first landfall in the Philippines is shown: Aguada ( Homonhón in the first accounts of Magellan's voyage). Fateful Mactan ( Mata ) is also illustrated. Mindanao appears as Mendana . The map also incorporates other sources, most evident in the comparatively accurate representations of Palawan (Polaguan) and the volcanic island of Gunung Api (Ocape). This information cannot have come from Magellanic reports but likely was known to Gastaldi from other, now unknown, Portuguese sources. Publication History and Census This map was engraved by Giulio Sanuto for inclusion in the 1561 first Ruscelli edition of Claudius Ptolemy's La Geografia di Claudio Tolomeo . The maps of this work were engraved two-to-a-plate, and consequently, the platemark ran off the edge of the sheet at the top. This characterizes the maps of the Latin-text editions of 1562 and 1564 as well. For the 1574 edition, the plates were cut, and maps of that edition and later exhibit a platemark all the way around. The present example corresponds to the Italian 1574 edition, both in terms of the state of the map and the typography of the verso. There are eleven separate examples of this map listed in OCLC in various editions. Ruscelli's Ptolemy is well represented in institutional collections. References: OCLC 165561277. Rumsey 11311.119 (1561 Italian) Suarez, Thomas, Early mapping of Southeast Asia, (Hong Kong: Periplus) pp. 130-157.

Excellent. Some toning to centerfold, else fine with generous margins and a bold strike. Size 7.5 x 10.5 Inches. This is Girolamo Ruscelli's 1574 edition of Giocomo Gastaldi's modern map of the Dalmatian coast. A Closer Look Coverage embraces the eastern Adriatic from the Danube River in the north to the Gulf of Venice and the Ionian Sea. It thus details from Padua in Italy, and the regions of Croatia, Bosnia, Serbia, Montenegro, and Albania. It follows the format of the Ptolemaic Quinta Europae Tabula in showing Italy in outline while detailing the Balkans, but follows Gastaldi's 1548 map in presenting contemporaneous geographical detail both in terms of topography and place names. Gastaldi's earlier work is the first modern depiction specifically of the Balkans: the present work, engraved in 1561, is a larger and more legible map - the product of the superior skill of Giulio Sanuto, who engraved most if not all of the maps for Ruscell's Ptolemy. Publication History and Census This map was engraved for inclusion in the 1561 edition of Girolamo Ruscelli's Ptolemy. The maps for the 1561, 1562 and 1564 printings were printed two-to-a-plate, and examples of such maps exhibit platemarks running off the top of the page. At some point after 1564 the plate was divided, and the individual maps exhibit plate marks all the way around the printed image thereafter. This example conforms to the 1574 state of the map. The verso text and catch letters are identical on the right hand side, but the text to the left completing the section pertinent to the previous map (Flanders) is not present, implying the existence of a variant edition, or a printers' error. References: OCLC 633330889. Rumsey 11311.085. (1561).

Very good. Trimmed close to top, but complete. Mend to lower left not impacting printed image; mend to lower right only impacting longitude line in southern Denmark; two filled wormholes in bottom margin not impacting image. Size 7.5 x 9.5 Inches. This is the most important map of Girolamo Ruscelli's 1561 - 1564 edition Ptolemy: the earliest acquirable iteration of Nicoló Zeno's 1558 Carta Da Navegar De Nicolo et Antonio Zeni Furono In Tramontana Lano MCCCLXXX , revealing the alleged 14th-century voyages of Zeno's ancestors, Nicoló and Antonio. Zeno's fraud, likely intended to enhance his political power in Venice and later embraced to co-opt the 1492 Columbia discovery of America, was responsible for the initial appearance and subsequent tenacity of the apocryphal islands Frisland, Icaria, Drogeo, and the coastline of Estotiland, which was taken by some of Europe's finest geographers to be the coast of Labrador. Zeno's Success Although eventually exposed as a deliberate fraud, Zeno's deception was widely accepted as genuine - thanks largely to Ruscelli's embrace of the Zeno original. While the 1558 edition of Zeno's book reached a relatively small audience, its presentation by mapmaker Girolamo Ruscelli spread the Zeno geography to a broad European audience in such an authoritative context that it was accepted without question. Therefore, Zeno's map remains one of the most important maps of the 16th century, for having successfully misled the greatest geographers for over a hundred years, including not only Ruscelli but also Mercator, Ortelius, De Jode, and Ramusio. The fantasies of the Zeno Map continued to be reproduced by Wytfliet, Blaeu, and Coronelli. The map baffled not only scholarly cartographers but also practical seamen: Martin Frobisher, upon sighting the southern coast of Greenland in 1576, believed that he had seen Frisland and loyally claimed it for England. The Scope of the Map Despite its inclusion of lands familiar to Europeans, the map's content emphasizes the remoteness of Iceland, Greenland, and the mythical Frisland. Despite the projection's distortion at the extremes, Denmark and the Norwegian coast are recognizable. At bottom center, the northern part of Scotland is named. Greenland dominates the north of the map. In a divergence from the 1558 edition, Ruscelli's map separates Greenland from Europe. The 1558 map showed an unbroken coastline between Greenland and Scandinavia, although it included a note indicating that it was unknown whether that area was sea or land. Ruscelli has included that connection, from the river shown on Greenland's eastern half to the Norwegian coast just east of Troni, but tentatively, showing that coastline with a dotted line so faint that many scholars have incorrectly assumed it to have been burnished out. Iceland appears just left of center: its eastern coast broken into an archipelago, in a misinterpretation of the ice floes indicated on the Olaus Magnus Carta Marina and a clue to one of the mapmaker's sources. The waters between Iceland and Scotland are populated by the imaginary islands of Icaria, Estland, and Frisland (whose cities are depicted in greater detail even than Iceland). In its western extremes, the map shows the coastlines of Estotiland and Drogeo. These were interpreted to indicate Labrador and Newfoundland, respectively, and their appearance here is likely to have been of the greatest importance to the 16th-century Zeno, above and beyond the spurious islands commanding the center of the map. Frisland, Icaria, Estotiland, Drogeo, and many other locales on the map - including a monastery in Greenland that benefited from hot springs - appeared first on the 1558 production. The Party Line This cartography has its germ in the 1558 publication by Venetian Senator and politician Nicoló Zeno the Younger of several letters and a map he attributed to his ancestors Nicoló and Antonio Zeno. According to Nicoló, the Zeno brothers traveled these waters and discove.

1st Edition. Very good. Mended wormholes at bottom centerfold and in mountain area of South America; else a bold example with generous margins. Size 6.25 x 10 Inches. This is a 1598 second-state issue of Girolamo Ruscelli's 1561 map of the world. In its first 1561 state, it was the earliest acquirable double-hemisphere world map, but even this later issue remains one of the earliest acquirable maps to use this format. A Closer Look Like most maps in Ruscelli's Ptolemy, the geographic details were based on Giacomo Gastaldi's (1500 - 1566) 1548 Ptolemy. Here, the double-hemispherical projection transforms this map into a fully new composition. Amongst printed maps, it is predated only by the unacquirable 1555 Georgio Sideri Calapoda (fl. 1537 - 1565) map. The 1598 edition of Ruscelli's Ptolemy was edited by Giuseppe Rosaccio, who updated the maps to make them more competitive. In this case, there are significant geographical changes, most notably the addition of a massive southern continent - Terre Australis . The Map The map is oriented to the north, with the three parts of the Old World in the right hemisphere and the fourth part of the world - the Americas - dominating the left. Some geographical elements are derived from Gastaldi's 1546 and 1548 world maps, but overall, this map diverges from any prior source. As with Gastaldi's maps through 1561, Ruscelli's map shows a clear connection between the continents of Asia and North America. Ruscelli adds a distinctive river system extending from the Gulf of California into the continent and includes abundant imaginary mountain ranges in North America. New Shores Ruscelli's 1561 issue of the map implied the connection of North America and Asia, using broken lines to indicate unexplored or speculative territory - this was also the case with the southwest coast of South America. These coasts still bear the notations Littus incognitum and Littus ignotum , but the American Pacific Northwest is no longer ghosted, and there is an upturn in the coastline to suggest that it did not continue around to connect with Asia. The southern coasts of Tierra del Fuego and Java are no longer incomplete: Java is shown as a definite island, while Tierra del Fuego is connected to the southern continent, Terre Australis, after Mercator and Ortelius. The northern promontory of this territory, in the vicinity of Java (roughly in the location of Northern Australia), bears the place name Lucach , also influenced by the same mapmakers. An Island Northeast Ruscelli may have derived his remarkable insular northeast America from the conflation of the Hudson River and the Saint Lawrence appearing on the Gastaldi-Ramusio map. Still, these features do not appear on any of Gastaldi's printed world maps. The bay separating the American Northeast from Terra Florida may have been influenced by the Sea of Verrazano, which appears prominently on Gastaldi's Carta Marina but not his other 1548 world map. This feature remains unchanged on this 1598 edition. South America The overall shape of South America, including the mouth of the Rio de la Plata, is similar to the c. 1561 Gastaldi but differs from his earlier works and is very distinctive in its broad and angular shape. The North Part of the World Ruscelli's depiction of the Arctic is distinctive: North America extends over the Pole and bears the place name Hyperborei - a classical geographical term originally applied to northern Eurasia, and later to northern Asia. Its presence here emphasizes Ruscelli's connection of Asia and North America. A Mare Glaciale covers the rest of the north. This feature appears unique to the Ruscelli, as neither Gastaldi's maps nor any other contemporary works show the Arctic in this way. Africa The delineation of Africa, including the scattering of islands north of Madagascar, is roughly consistent with Gastaldi's geography. It preserves the Ptolemaic sourcing of the Nile and illustrates a large Senegal River with many tributaries. Madagascar itself i.

1st Edition. Very good. Text on verso with minimal showthrough. Few invisibly filled wormholes, with minimal manuscript reinstatement of image at bottom center. Else excellent. Size 7.5 x 9.75 Inches. This is the first state of Girolamo Ruscelli's 1561 map of Cuba, Jamaica, the Cayman Islands, and the western part of Hispaniola. It is among the earliest detailed maps of these islands, and is the fourth printed map specifically of Cuba. A Closer Look Although it is preceded by and based upon the very rare 1548 Gastaldi map of the same title, it is a superior engraving: larger, with sharper engraving and lettering. Also, Ruscelli's decision to use stippling in the ocean rather than the waves characterizing the Gastaldi resulted in a vastly more legible map. The Content Ruscelli's map, in terms of the islands shown and place names used, is faithful to its 1548 source - although the spelling is improved upon the original (Gastaldi's Iamayea is corrected to Iamayca , for example.) Cuba is shown with an array of named capes and points, including the southern archipelagos of the Jardines de la Reyna and the Jardines of St. Christopher (spelled using the fascinating contraction 'Xpoval' for 'Christobal'). Havana is not named: it would not appear on a map until 1579. Settlements are shown instead at San Cristobal, Trinidad, Salinas, and an unnamed site in the vicinity of Angostura. The absence of settlements on the north coast may reflect the early Spanish efforts to settle the island, which were largely launched from Hispaniola, rather than from the north. The Cayman Islands appear - not named 'Las Tortugas' as Columbus dubbed them, but Ys(las) de Lagartos (Lizard Islands). Publication History and Census This map was engraved for the 1561 first Ruscelli edition of Claudius Ptolemy's La Geografia di Claudio Tolomeo . The maps of this work were engraved two-to-a-plate, and consequently the platemark runs off the edge of the sheet at top, and this characterizes the maps of the Latin-text editions of 1562 and 1564 as well. For the 1574 edition the plates were cut, and maps of this edition and later exhibit a platemark all the way around. The present example corresponds to the Latin 1562 edition, both in terms of the first state of the map and the typography of the verso. In various editions there are six separate examples of this map listed in OCLC. Ruscelli's Ptolemy is well represented in institutional collections. References: OCLC: 500400292. Rumsey 11311.129 (1561 Italian) Cueto, E. Cuba in Old Maps #5 (note that the images for the Gastaldi, #4, and the Ruscelli are transposed in Cueto) Kapp, Capt. Kit S., in Map Collectors' Circle #24 The Printed Maps of Jamaica, #2.

Ruscelli, Girolamo. Arabia Felice Nuova Tavola, 1561, engraved map presenting one of the earliest modern cartographic depictions of the Arabian Peninsula during the Renaissance expansion of geographic knowledge. Ruscelli, an Italian humanist and cartographer active in Venice, produced this map as part of the sixteenth century revival and reinterpretation of the geographic tradition associated with Claudius Ptolemy. Drawing on the influential 1548 map designed by the Italian cartographer Giacomo Gastaldi, Ruscelli's engraving incorporates updated geographic understanding of the Persian Gulf and Arabian Peninsula that emerged from European contact with the eastern Mediterranean and Indian Ocean trade routes. The map marks an early modern effort to systematize geographic knowledge of Arabia within the expanding cartographic traditions of Renaissance Europe. Ruscelli, Girolamo. Arabia Felice Nuova Tavola. Venice, 1561. Engraved copperplate map derived from Giacomo Gastaldi's earlier geographic model of the region. The map depicts the Arabian Peninsula and surrounding waters of the Persian Gulf with labeled settlements and coastal formations. Notable place names include Baharam, corresponding to Bahrain, along with Aba, associated with Abu Dhabi, and Qatar, whose geographic formation appears clearly delineated. Ruscelli's map belongs to a generation of Renaissance cartography that adopted copperplate engraving in place of earlier woodcut techniques, allowing greater precision in the rendering of coastlines, settlements, and geographic detail. During the sixteenth century Venice emerged as one of Europe's most important centers of cartographic production, where printers and engravers integrated classical geographic traditions with newly circulating information derived from trade, diplomacy, and exploration. Cartographers such as Gastaldi and Ruscelli played a central role in refining printed maps through improved engraving techniques and updated geographic data. Maps of the Arabian Peninsula held particular importance for European audiences because the region lay along the maritime routes linking the Mediterranean world with the Indian Ocean trading system. Ruscelli's engraved rendering of Arabia thus reflects both Renaissance scholarly interest in classical geography and the growing European engagement with the broader commercial networks of the early modern world. Sheet measuring approximately 9 x 11 1/2 inches. Light age toning and minor handling wear; overall very good condition. A significant example of sixteenth century printed cartography depicting the Arabian Peninsula.