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Prima Parte dello Specchio del Mare, nel quale si Descrivono tutti li Porti, Spaggie, Baye, Isole, Scogli, e Seccagni del Mediterraneo…
Genova,
Gerolamo Marino e Benedetto Celle,
1664
Folio (416 by 280mm), engraved title-page, 25 engraved charts, 24 of which were double-page, numerous woodcut illustrations and coastal profiles in text, title discoloured at fore-edge with a few manuscript annotations, bookplate to front paste-down, recent vellum, red morocco title slip to spine.
12859
notes:
The first and only edition of Levanto's rare pilot of the Mediterranean published in Genoa.
Levanto's atlas is a close copy of the Mediterranean section of Pieter Goos's 'Zee-spiegel' of 1662. The text on the charts was translated into Italian from Dutch, and they are numbered from one to 25 at the lower right corners.
The superb title-page, a mirror image of Goos's work, comprises a cartouche for the title and dedication to Giovanni Battista della Rov...
Levanto's atlas is a close copy of the Mediterranean section of Pieter Goos's 'Zee-spiegel' of 1662. The text on the charts was translated into Italian from Dutch, and they are numbered from one to 25 at the lower right corners.
The superb title-page, a mirror image of Goos's work, comprises a cartouche for the title and dedication to Giovanni Battista della Rov...
bibliography:
Koeman IV, Lev 1; NMM 3:42; Shirley, British Library M.LEV-1a; Zacharakis 1350-1364.
provenance:
Provenance:
1. Bookplate of the Society of Writers to Her Majesty's Signet.
1. Bookplate of the Society of Writers to Her Majesty's Signet.
