Skip to main content

This auction has ended. View lot details

You may also be interested in

Own a similar item?

Submit your item online for a free auction estimate.

MAGINI (GIOVANNI) Italia di Gio: Ant. Magini data in luce da Fabio suo figliuolo al Serenissimo Ferdina[n]do Gonzaga Duca di Mantoua edi Monferrato etc., Bologna, impensis ipsius auctoris, 1620, [colophon: Clemente Ferroni, 1632], sold as an atlas not subject to return image 1
MAGINI (GIOVANNI) Italia di Gio: Ant. Magini data in luce da Fabio suo figliuolo al Serenissimo Ferdina[n]do Gonzaga Duca di Mantoua edi Monferrato etc., Bologna, impensis ipsius auctoris, 1620, [colophon: Clemente Ferroni, 1632], sold as an atlas not subject to return image 2
Lot 141

MAGINI (GIOVANNI)
Italia di Gio: Ant. Magini data in luce da Fabio suo figliuolo al Serenissimo Ferdina[n]do Gonzaga Duca di Mantoua edi Monferrato etc., Bologna, impensis ipsius auctoris, 1620, [colophon: Clemente Ferroni, 1632], sold as an atlas not subject to return

11 November 2015, 13:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

Sold for £3,125 inc. premium

Own a similar item?

Submit your item online for a free auction estimate.

How to sell

Looking for a similar item?

Our Books & Manuscripts specialists can help you find a similar item at an auction or via a private sale.

Find your local specialist

Ask about this lot

MAGINI (GIOVANNI)

Italia di Gio: Ant. Magini data in luce da Fabio suo figliuolo al Serenissimo Ferdina[n]do Gonzaga Duca di Mantoua edi Monferrato etc., second edition, engraved allegorical title within border of typographical ornaments (chipped at outer edge), engraved portrait of Magini by H. David dated 1632, 48 engraved maps (only, of 61, 46 double-page), dampstaining and softening to outer edges throughout (heaviest in margins but encroaching into most maps to some degree, title frayed and first map with piece of margin torn away, last few maps with edges frayed), a few repairs, mostly to text, occasional staining and some maps with short tears at foot of folds, early contemporary half calf, worn, damage to fore-edges [cf. Graesse IV 336; Nordenskiold 2 137], folio (404 x 265mm.), Bologna, impensis ipsius auctoris, 1620, [colophon: Clemente Ferroni, 1632], sold as an atlas not subject to return

Footnotes

The first printed atlas of Italy and the basis for regional maps of Italy for the next fifty years. Giovanni Antonio Magini (1555–1617) was an Italian astronomer, astrologer, mathematician and cartographer. He was chosen ahead of Galileo to be the chair of mathematics at the University of Bologna in 1588, but his later years were dedicated to the preparation of this atlas, which was printed by his son three years after his death, and dedicated to his patron Vincenzo I of Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua.

Additional information

Bid now on these items

A Presentation Copy of Kennedy's First Book to Spencer Tracy. Kennedy, John F. 1917-1963. Why England Slept. New York: Wilfred Funk, Inc., 1940.

Signed to Spencer Tracy 1952 Hemingway, Ernest. 1899-1961. The Old Man and the Sea, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1952.

CORNELIUS, MATTHEWS, editor. 1817-1889. The Enchanted Moccasins and Other Legends of the American Indians.