Jerusalem--Licinius, Fabius.

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A rare, large bird's-eye view of Jerusalem, printed from plates made in 1559, and one of the earliest surviving copper-plate plans of the city. The first state of the map, made by Fabius Licinius in 1559, is mentioned in Tooley ("Maps in Italian Atlases of the Sixteenth-Century", Imago Mundi 3 (1939), 12-47, item 342), noting only one known copy, at Schloss Wolfegg. This present example of the second state - the only one we have located - is printed by Stefano Scolari from Licinius' plate, the only difference being some overprinting in the cartouche.

Licinius (c.1521-1565) was a Venetian engraver and publisher of the so-called "Lafreri school", at the heart of renaissance Italian cartography. He published a number of works by Giacomo Gastaldi. The printer of this second state, Stefano Scolari, also acquired plates from Giovanni Francesco Camocio, another celebrated "Lafreri" mapmaker.