Lot 145
  • 145

Rosaccio, Gioseppe

Estimate
300 - 500 USD
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Description

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Le Sei Età del Mondo. Venice: [Domenico Farri], 1598



12mo (5 1/2 x 3 5/8 in.; 140 x 92 mm). Woodcut world map on title by Rosaccio dated 1590; some soiling, light spotting and a few early marginal calculations. Disbound, in two envelopes demonstrating provenance.

Provenance

William Gwynn Mather, Cleveland, Ohio (accession no. 22 in pencil on title, library ticket on envelope enclosure)

Literature

Alden-Landis 598/90; EDIT16, CNCE 50321; see Sabin 73197

Condition

some soiling, light spotting and a few early marginal calculations. Disbound, in two envelopes demonstrating provenance.
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Catalogue Note

A very popular summary world history by the cartographer Rosaccio, first published in Brescia in 1593. This is possibly the ninth edition of this text.