Istria

Etching with engraving, about 1597, signed on plate in the title. Beautiful impresson, printed on contemporary laid paper, with margins, in excellent condition.

Rare map included for the first time in Descrittione Geografica Delle Isole, Città, & Fortezze principali, che si trovano in mare nel viaggio da Venetia a Costantinopoli, con molte altre a queste vicine, di nuovo aggiunte printed in Venice in 1597 by Giacomo Franco .

Giacomo Franco, the natural son of the painter and printmaker Battista Franco and that Francesca da Urbino, was born in Venice, or perhaps more likely in Urbino in 1550. Exercised, in Venice, the profession of an engraver, copperplate engraver and publisher, although in his will, drawn June 16, 1620 by the notary Fausto Doglioni, he defines "desegnador". His name never occurs in the acts of art ""libreri, stampatori e ligadori", while it is in the lists of the painters' guild, the dates 1606 and 1619, terms that probably indicate the year of enrollment to the art, and to cessation. His work as an illustrator was very wide, but his fame is mainly due to two works on the Venetian costume. As for scoring siglava usual "Francus Jacobus, Giacomo Franco, Franco fecit" as a publisher "Franco Forma".