Venice, 1605

AFRICA .

Original copperplate printed map
Uncolored as issued
19 x 26 cm.
Map # AF-569              
$275

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This map is from the extremely popular and widely published Le Relationi Universali, a geographic and political treatise on the world written by Giovanni Botero.  These previous Italian editions of Botero's work, Le Relationi Universali, contained either the Giovanni Lorenzo d'Anania map of 1582 or the Giovanni Botero map of 1595. 

For the 1605 Venice edition of Botero's Le Relationi Universali, published by Agostino Angelieri, a new set of copperplates was engraved.  Geographically, it closely follows the earlier Botero map of 1595, with the omission of some placenames and mis-spellings of many others (for example Zundro rather than Zimbro).  The map is known in one state. Sometime before 1618 cracks developed on the copperplate that produced this map. One enters the map on the right side by 30°N latitude with two other cracks to the plate at the bottom by 85°and 120° longitude. These cracks in the copperplate became increasingly more noticeable in the later editions.

Betz, Map #51.  Not in Norwich.

Fine Condition.  Evidence on the map of the cracking of the copperplate.