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Thomaso Porcacchi (1530–1585)
Irlanda
From his L’Isole Pio Famose de Mondo [1572] published
in Venice in 1572.
150 x 110. Abl P22.
Thomas Porcacchi 1530 - 1545
Porcacchi, Thomas, a learned Italian of the sixteenth
century, was born at Casliglione Aretino. While resident
at Venice in 1559, he assisted in making a collection of all
the Greek historians, or analyists, from whose works he
formed the “Collana Storica Graeca;” or Greek Historical
Necklace, divided into twelve rings, to which were added
the jewels, or minor authors, serving to illustrate the
greater. Porcacchi was likewise editor or translator of
Pomponius Mela, Quintus Curtius, and other authors,
and published some original works in poetry, history,
antiquities and geography. The most valued of these is
his “Funeral i antichi di diversi populi, &c.” Venice, 1574,
the plates of which are Very fine. He died in 1585.
€ 200 - 250
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Thomaso Porcacchi (1530–
1585)
Irlanda
From his L’Isole Pio Famose de Mondo
(1572) published in Venice in 1590. 150 x
110. Abl P24.
€ 150 - 200
206
Thomaso Porcacchi (1530–1585)
Irlanda
From his L’Isole Pio Famose de Mondo (1572) published in Venice in 1572. 150 x 110. Abl
P25.
€ 0 - 0
204
Thomaso Porcacchi (1530–1585)
Irlanda
From his L’Isole Pio Famose de Mondo published in Venice in 1576. 150 x 110. Abl P23.
€ 150 - 200
201
Johannes Honter (1498 –1549)
A Map of Ireland (1546)
From an edition of Polyhistor Pompeii Melae (1585). First published in Basle in 1561. The map of Scotland has been cut off. 88 x 130. Abl P18.
Johannes Honter 1498 - 1549
Born in Braşov (Kronstadt, Brassó), Transylvania, nowadays Romania, he studied at the University of Vienna between 1520 and 1525, graduating
with a magister artium title. As the Ottomans approached Vienna in 1529, Honter moved first to Regensburg, and, in 1530, he registered at the
Kraków’s Jagiellonian University as “Johannes Georgii de Corona, artium magister Viennensis” (Corona is medieval Latin for Braşov). It was in
Kraków that he published his first books, a Latin grammar and cosmography manual. Honter is best known for his geographic and cartographic
publishing activity, as well as for implementing the Lutheran reform in Transylvania.
€ 200 - 300
202
Giovanni Camocio (1501-1575)
Irlanda [C1575].
From the re-issued edition by Bertelli. The re-issue is distinguished by the addition of 83 (lower
right). Abl P21.
Giovanni Francesco Camocio (1501 - 1575)
Giovanni Francesco Camocio was active as map publisher in Venice between 1558 and 1575. He
was one of the most important mapmakers of the Lafreri-school.
During the short period between the publication of Sebastian Münster’s Geographia (1540) in
Basel, and Abraham Ortelius Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (1570) in Antwerp, Italy was the most
important place of map production in Europe. The output in Rome and Venice was no less than
660 different maps of the world, which were based mostly on large woodcut maps. These Italian
copper engraved maps were used, among others, by Mercator and Ortelius as templates. The
individual maps of different formats were mostly compiled at the request of the buyer, and
bound by expanding the margin of the smaller maps. For the resulting bound collection of maps,
the name Lafreri-Atlas has established.
€ 500 - 700
200
Benedetto Bordone (1460-1539)
A Map of Ireland
From his Isolario Vol 1, first published in Venice in 1528. This edition 1547. 150
x 85. Abl P4.
€ 200 - 250
Maps of Ireland
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