Asia
| Reference: | MS5342 |
| Author | Lucantonio GIUNTI |
| Year: | 1640 |
| Zone: | Asia |
| Printed: | Venice |
| Measures: | 250 x 190 mm |
€450.00
| Reference: | MS5342 |
| Author | Lucantonio GIUNTI |
| Year: | 1640 |
| Zone: | Asia |
| Printed: | Venice |
| Measures: | 250 x 190 mm |
€450.00
Description
Map of Asia taken from Giovanni Botero's “Le Relationi Universali,” a cosmography that had numerous editions between 1582 and 1671.
Botero's popular book was illustrated, in the first edition of 1582, by four maps of the continents drawn by Giovanni D'Anania. In later editions the continent charts were replaced by those drawn by Giuseppe Rosaccio (1595), which were imitated by Giovanni Antono Magnini (1596), Peter Kaschedt (1597), John Pory (1600) and Rosaccio again (1605).
This map, made with a new copper very similar to Rosaccio's 1605, is one of the maps of the continents illustrating Le Relationi Universali printed in Venice by Lucantonio Giunti heris in 1640.
For the 1640 Venice edition of Giovanni Botero's Le Relationi, a new plate was cut. This map is one of four maps of the continents that appear in this book. Geographically, the map is unchanged from the 1582 Giovanni D'Anania map, which was used as the model for the first edition of Botero's Le Relationi that contained maps, the 1595 Venice edition published by Grecco. This map is known to appear in Giovanni Botero's Le Relationi Universali, published by Lucatonio Giunti and his heirs in Venice in 1640. This map has a circle surrounding all of Africa in a similar manner to the 1582 D'Anania map in its second state that was used in Rosaccio's expanded edition of Girolamo Ruscelli's Geographia of 1598 and 1599.
Copperplate with fine later hand colour, very good condition.
Lucantonio GIUNTI (Firenze 1457 - Venezia 1638)
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Lucantonio Giunti, or Giunta, also known as Lucantonio il Vecchio (Florence, 1457 - Venice, April 3, 1538), was an Italian publisher and printer, a pioneer and leading exponent of the art of printing in 16th-century Italy. He was also one of the first printers to practice the book trade on an international scale.
Lucantonio arrived in Venice in his early twenties in 1477 with his brother Bernardo. He opened a workshop in which he sold sheets of paper in different formats (for letters, for binding, for chancelleries, etc.). Only three years later he is already a book dealer, a business that flourished in Venice more than in any other Italian city. Despite his move to Venice, Lucantonio maintained strong relations with his hometown, receiving a certificate of citizenship in 1514. Together with his brother Filippo, Lucantonio formed a company for publishing purposes on August 22, 1491. His brother Filippo, too, was already established in the book business in Florence: in fact, after working as an apprentice in the workshop of the famous goldsmith Antonio Pollaiuolo, he had been practicing the profession of stationer for a few years, practicing the sale of his brother Lucantonio's editions.
Lucantonio Giunti died in Venice on April 3, 1538. Lucantonio's successors include first his two sons, Tommaso and Giovanni Maria, then his nephew Lucantonio the Younger (son of Giovanni Maria), who ran the family firm from 1566 to 1600. Production levels at the Giunti print shop in Venice remained high until the mid-16th century; thereafter they declined, partly as a result of bankruptcy and a fire. After the death of Tommaso, son of Lucantonio il Giovane who was left without a male heir, the Venetian print shop passed to Modesto, son of Filippo il Giovane, thus being taken over by the Florentine branch of the family. That business in turn disappeared around 1670.
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Lucantonio GIUNTI (Firenze 1457 - Venezia 1638)
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Lucantonio Giunti, or Giunta, also known as Lucantonio il Vecchio (Florence, 1457 - Venice, April 3, 1538), was an Italian publisher and printer, a pioneer and leading exponent of the art of printing in 16th-century Italy. He was also one of the first printers to practice the book trade on an international scale.
Lucantonio arrived in Venice in his early twenties in 1477 with his brother Bernardo. He opened a workshop in which he sold sheets of paper in different formats (for letters, for binding, for chancelleries, etc.). Only three years later he is already a book dealer, a business that flourished in Venice more than in any other Italian city. Despite his move to Venice, Lucantonio maintained strong relations with his hometown, receiving a certificate of citizenship in 1514. Together with his brother Filippo, Lucantonio formed a company for publishing purposes on August 22, 1491. His brother Filippo, too, was already established in the book business in Florence: in fact, after working as an apprentice in the workshop of the famous goldsmith Antonio Pollaiuolo, he had been practicing the profession of stationer for a few years, practicing the sale of his brother Lucantonio's editions.
Lucantonio Giunti died in Venice on April 3, 1538. Lucantonio's successors include first his two sons, Tommaso and Giovanni Maria, then his nephew Lucantonio the Younger (son of Giovanni Maria), who ran the family firm from 1566 to 1600. Production levels at the Giunti print shop in Venice remained high until the mid-16th century; thereafter they declined, partly as a result of bankruptcy and a fire. After the death of Tommaso, son of Lucantonio il Giovane who was left without a male heir, the Venetian print shop passed to Modesto, son of Filippo il Giovane, thus being taken over by the Florentine branch of the family. That business in turn disappeared around 1670.
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