Classic 16th century map of Italy in fine colour

Name: Classic 16th century map of Italy in fine colour
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ORTELIUS, Abraham.

Italiae Novissima Descriptio Auctore Jacobo Castaldo Pedemontano.

Antwerp, 1598, Latin text edition. Original colour, 360 x 510mm.

Stock #: 24917

£1,400.00

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A fine map of Italy after Giacomo Gastaldi, filled with decorative detail, including a large vignette of a merman and mermaid and a sphinx on the scale cartouche. This example is printed from the second of two plates, with the mer-couple in a far less intimate embrace.

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