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Antique maps > america > the americas > Antique map of America by Nicolosi G.B.
Continentem Noviter Detectam Componebat Ioa: Baptista Nicolosiu S.T.D. - Nicolosi G.B. ,1660.
First edition - Rare.
Copper engraving
Size: 39.5 x 46cm (15.4 x 17.9 inches)
Verso: Blank
Condition: Right margin trimmed with small loss of the neatline.
References: Burden, 354, State 1.
From: Dell' Hercole e Studio Geografico. Rome, 1660.
In 1652 the Propaganda Fide commissioned Giovanni Battista Nicolosi (1610-70) to produce an atlas. The result, eight years later, was the very rare Dell'Hercole which contained maps of the world and the continents, the latter in four sheets each. All of the maps are found in the second volume.
Item number: 19265
Price: 1350 Euro
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