Camocio and [Anthonisz.]. Accipe Candide lector absolutissimam Septentrionalium. [1562]

Property of the Late Gunnar Skoog

CAMOCIO, GIOVANNI FRANCESCO ̶ [CORNELIUS ANTHONISZ.]

Accipe Candide lector absolutissimam Septentrionalium Suetiae Gotiae, Norvegiae, Prussiae, Pomeraniae, Ducatus Megapolensis, Frisiae, Geldriae, Altae Marchiae, Lusatiae, adiacentiumque regionum descriptionem. [Venice, 1562]

Second state (see footnote), large engraved map of Scandinavia, (389 x 520mm., engraved area), remargined (small repairs and damp-staining to remargined area)

A FINE COPY OF A RARE 'LAFRERI SCHOOL' MAP OF SCANDINAVIA.

Second state with date of 1562 in Roman numerals, and without attribution to Camocio. Single-sheet reduction of Cornelius Anthonisz's influential nine-sheet 'Caerte van Osstland'.

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.