Latii Utriusque Delineatio
| Reference: | CO-587 |
| Author | Andreas CELLARIUS |
| Year: | 1701 ca. |
| Zone: | Lazio |
| Printed: | Amsterdam |
| Measures: | 310 x 205 mm |
€120.00
| Reference: | CO-587 |
| Author | Andreas CELLARIUS |
| Year: | 1701 ca. |
| Zone: | Lazio |
| Printed: | Amsterdam |
| Measures: | 310 x 205 mm |
€120.00
Description
This 'ancient geography' map shows Rome and the west side of Italy.
Original copperplate-engraved map on hand-made paper, published for the 1732 edition of Geographia Antiqua (Antique Geography) by German Scholar Christopher Keller (known as Cellarius) (1632-1707). First published by Cellarius in 1686, this work was reissued many times, until 1812. The 1732 edition was larger and more attractively presented. Many of the maps had decorative cartouche title pieces. This wonderful cartouche shows grand buildings of Rome, fire and smoke, and the army on horseback.
In good condition, this map would have been published in black and white. It has fine later hand-tinting with watercolour, that certainly adds to the attractiveness of the map.
Andreas CELLARIUS (Neuhausen, c. 1596 – Hoorn, 1665)
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The Dutch-German mathematician and cosmographer Andreas Cellarius is well known to map historians and historians of astronomy as the author of the Harmonia Macrocosmica, commonly regarded as one of the most spectacular celestial atlases that was published in the second half of the seventeenth century.
The Harmonia Macrocosmica was published in 1660 (a reprint was issued in 1661) by the Amsterdam publisher Johannes Janssonius as a supplement to his Atlas Novus. Cellarius had already started working on this atlas before 1647 and intended it to be a historical introduction for a two-volume treatise on cosmography but the second part was never issued. Cellarius resigned as rector in early 1665 and died in November on the same year. The plates of his Harmonia Macrocosmica was reprinted (without the Latin commentary) in 1708 by the Amsterdam publishers Gerard Valk and Petrus Schenk.
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Andreas CELLARIUS (Neuhausen, c. 1596 – Hoorn, 1665)
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The Dutch-German mathematician and cosmographer Andreas Cellarius is well known to map historians and historians of astronomy as the author of the Harmonia Macrocosmica, commonly regarded as one of the most spectacular celestial atlases that was published in the second half of the seventeenth century.
The Harmonia Macrocosmica was published in 1660 (a reprint was issued in 1661) by the Amsterdam publisher Johannes Janssonius as a supplement to his Atlas Novus. Cellarius had already started working on this atlas before 1647 and intended it to be a historical introduction for a two-volume treatise on cosmography but the second part was never issued. Cellarius resigned as rector in early 1665 and died in November on the same year. The plates of his Harmonia Macrocosmica was reprinted (without the Latin commentary) in 1708 by the Amsterdam publishers Gerard Valk and Petrus Schenk.
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