An extremely rare Lafreri-type map of Africa
Il disegno della Geographia moderna de tutta la parte' dell Africa i confini della quale stanno in questo modo. da ponente il mar oceano Computante l'isole. di capo Verde et le canarie da Tramontana il stretto de Gibelterra & il mare meditterraneo, da Siroco una linea che principia a feramida insino al Sues & Sues per il mare Rosso da levante il mare oceano includendo l'Isola di S.to lorenzo insino al capo di Bona Speranza dall 'Ostro ile mare oceano, Graduata in longhezza & in largheszz. Claudio ducheto exc. Lanno 1579. Henricus honius Harlemensis sculpsit.
Rome, 1579. Two sheets conjoined, total 440 x 600mm.
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An extremely rare Lafreri-type map of Africa published by Claudio Duchetti, a nephew of Antonio Lafreri who worked in Rome and Venice between 1554 and 1585, taking over part of the Lafreri business after Antonio's death. The cartography comes from the Camocio/Forlani map of 1563, but it eschews the illustrations of sea monsters and galleons, limiting the decoration to a large strap-work title cartouche in the South Atlantic, a compass rose in the Indian Ocean and a small depiction of the palace of Prester John located just north of the Equator. However the quality of the engraving, by Henricus Honius of Haarlem, is apparent throughout the map, enhanced by the dark impression of this example.
A second state was published by Pietro de Nobili, probably after Duchetti's death in 1585.
UPDATE: Richard Betz's on-line Addenda now describes our example as 'the first recorded example that is not in a public library; the other example is at the Birmingham City Library'.
Condition:
One small patch with mss. fill, otherwise a fine example with wide margins.References:
NORWICH: 13; BETZ: 19, 'Only one example of each state was located by the author', although he could not check every composite atlas known. Both books illustrate the second state only, the example in the Johannesburg Public Library.Related products
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