Tramezini and [Anthonisz.]. Septemtrionalium Regionum Suetiae Gothiae Norvegiae Daniae et Terrarum adiacentium. [1588]

Property of the Late Gunnar Skoog

TRAMEZINI, MICHAEL ̶ [CORNELIUS ANTHONISZ.]

Septemtrionalium Regionum Suetiae Gothiae Norvegiae Daniae et Terrarum adiacentium recens exactq descriptio. [Venice, 1588]

First state (see footnote), large engraved map of Scandinavia, (393 x 531mm.), cut close, very minor marginal tears (some repaired) 

AN EXTREMELY RARE 'LAFRERI SCHOOL' MAP OF SCANDINAVIA AND THE EAST COAST OF ENGLAND.

First state with the imprint of Iacobus Bussius Belgia only. Single-sheet reduction of Cornelius Anthonisz's influential nine-sheet 'Caerte van Osstland', and copied by Giovanni Francesco in 1562.

In a remarkable flowering of talent, the Italian cities of Rome and Venice came to dominate map-publishing in Europe, over a period from about 1540 to 1570. The generally (but not universally) accepted term for this group and their output - "Lafreri School" and "Lafreri Atlas" - derive from the publisher Antonio Lafreri.