1599 ruscelli (2 Ergebnisse)

1st Edition. Very good. Mended wormholes at bottom centerfold and in mountain area of South America; else a bold example with generous margins. Size 6.25 x 10 Inches. This is a 1598 second-state issue of Girolamo Ruscelli's 1561 map of the world. In its first 1561 state, it was the earliest acquirable double-hemisphere world map, but even this later issue remains one of the earliest acquirable maps to use this format. A Closer Look Like most maps in Ruscelli's Ptolemy, the geographic details were based on Giacomo Gastaldi's (1500 - 1566) 1548 Ptolemy. Here, the double-hemispherical projection transforms this map into a fully new composition. Amongst printed maps, it is predated only by the unacquirable 1555 Georgio Sideri Calapoda (fl. 1537 - 1565) map. The 1598 edition of Ruscelli's Ptolemy was edited by Giuseppe Rosaccio, who updated the maps to make them more competitive. In this case, there are significant geographical changes, most notably the addition of a massive southern continent - Terre Australis . The Map The map is oriented to the north, with the three parts of the Old World in the right hemisphere and the fourth part of the world - the Americas - dominating the left. Some geographical elements are derived from Gastaldi's 1546 and 1548 world maps, but overall, this map diverges from any prior source. As with Gastaldi's maps through 1561, Ruscelli's map shows a clear connection between the continents of Asia and North America. Ruscelli adds a distinctive river system extending from the Gulf of California into the continent and includes abundant imaginary mountain ranges in North America. New Shores Ruscelli's 1561 issue of the map implied the connection of North America and Asia, using broken lines to indicate unexplored or speculative territory - this was also the case with the southwest coast of South America. These coasts still bear the notations Littus incognitum and Littus ignotum , but the American Pacific Northwest is no longer ghosted, and there is an upturn in the coastline to suggest that it did not continue around to connect with Asia. The southern coasts of Tierra del Fuego and Java are no longer incomplete: Java is shown as a definite island, while Tierra del Fuego is connected to the southern continent, Terre Australis, after Mercator and Ortelius. The northern promontory of this territory, in the vicinity of Java (roughly in the location of Northern Australia), bears the place name Lucach , also influenced by the same mapmakers. An Island Northeast Ruscelli may have derived his remarkable insular northeast America from the conflation of the Hudson River and the Saint Lawrence appearing on the Gastaldi-Ramusio map. Still, these features do not appear on any of Gastaldi's printed world maps. The bay separating the American Northeast from Terra Florida may have been influenced by the Sea of Verrazano, which appears prominently on Gastaldi's Carta Marina but not his other 1548 world map. This feature remains unchanged on this 1598 edition. South America The overall shape of South America, including the mouth of the Rio de la Plata, is similar to the c. 1561 Gastaldi but differs from his earlier works and is very distinctive in its broad and angular shape. The North Part of the World Ruscelli's depiction of the Arctic is distinctive: North America extends over the Pole and bears the place name Hyperborei - a classical geographical term originally applied to northern Eurasia, and later to northern Asia. Its presence here emphasizes Ruscelli's connection of Asia and North America. A Mare Glaciale covers the rest of the north. This feature appears unique to the Ruscelli, as neither Gastaldi's maps nor any other contemporary works show the Arctic in this way. Africa The delineation of Africa, including the scattering of islands north of Madagascar, is roughly consistent with Gastaldi's geography. It preserves the Ptolemaic sourcing of the Nile and illustrates a large Senegal River with many tributaries. Madagascar itself i.…

Very good. Worn corners, some soiling to margins. Size 7.5 x 9.5 Inches. This is Girolamo Ruscelli's 1599 edition of the 1558 Carta Da Navegar De Nicolo et Antonio Zeni Furono In Tramontana Lano MCCCLXXX by Nicoló Zeno the Younger, revealing the alleged 14th-century voyages of his ancestors, Nicoló and Antonio Zeno. The fraud, seen largely as an attempt to co-opt the 1492 Columbia discovery of America, is responsible for the tenacious mapping of the apocryphal islands Frisland, Icaria, and Drogeo, and the coastline of Estotiland, which was taken to be the coast of Labrador. Zeno's Success Although eventually exposed as a deliberate fraud, in Zeno the Younger's day, the deception was widely accepted as genuine. While the 1558 edition of Zeno's book reached a relatively small audience, its embrace by mapmaker Girolamo Ruscelli spread the Zeno geography to a broad European audience in so authoritative a context that it was accepted virtually without question. Therefore, Zeno's map remains one of the most important maps of the 16th century, for its having successfully misinformed the greatest geographers for over a hundred years, including not only Ruscelli but also Mercator, Ortelius, De Jode, and Ramusio. The fantasies of the Zeno map continued to be reproduced by Wytfliet, Blaeu, and even Coronelli. The map baffled not only scholarly cartographers but also practical seamen: Martin Frobisher, upon sighting the southern coast of Greenland in 1576, believed that he had seen Frisland and loyally claimed it for England. The Scope of the Map Despite its inclusion of lands familiar to Europeans, the map's content emphasizes the remoteness of Iceland, Greenland, and the mythical Frisland. In spite of the projection's distortion at the extremes, Denmark and the Norwegian coast are recognizable. At the bottom center, the northern part of Scotland is named. The north of the map is dominated by Greenland. In a divergence from the 1558 edition, Ruscelli's map separates Greenland from Europe. (The 1558 map showed an unbroken coastline between Greenland and Scandinavia, although it included a note indicating that it was unknown whether that area was sea or land. Ruscelli appears to have initially preserved that connection. On uncolored examples of the map, the faint trace of an erased coastline can be discerned connecting Greenland from the river shown on its eastern half to the Norwegian coast just east of Troni.) Iceland appears just left of center: its eastern coast broken into an archipelago, in a misinterpretation of the ice floes indicated on the Olaus Magnus Carta Marina and a clue to one of the mapmaker's sources. The waters between Iceland and Scotland are populated by the imaginary islands of Icaria, Estland, and Frisland (whose cities are depicted in greater detail even than Iceland). In its western extremes, the map shows the coastlines of Estotiland and Deogeo - these are believed to indicate Labrador and Newfoundland, respectively. It is their appearance here that is likely to have been of the greatest importance to the 16th-century Zeno, above and beyond the spurious islands commanding the center of the map. Frisland, Icaria, Estotiland, Deogeo, and many other locales on the map - including a monastery in Greenland that benefited from hot springs - appeared first on the 1558 production. The Party Line This cartography has its germ in the 1558 publication, by Venetian Senator and politician Nicoló Zeno the Younger, of several letters and a map which he attributed to his ancestors Nicoló and Antonio Zeno. The Zeno brothers, so claimed descendant Nicoló, traveled these waters and discovered the novel islands presented here. The letters indicated that on a 1380 voyage, the elder Nicoló Zeno's ship was shipwrecked on the island of Frisland. There, he was taken in by King Zichmni of Frisland, who enlisted the Venetian's aid in conquering neighboring islands. Nicoló then wrote to his brother Antonio to encourage him to join him.…