| Giovanni Antonio Magini | |
| Venice,
1596 The Continent of Asia: ASIA Original copperplate
printed map
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This is Giovanni Magini's modern map of Asia from his edition of Claudius Ptolemy's Geographia. It is basically a slightly-reduced version of the D'Anania 1582 map of Asia, which in turn was modeled after Ortelius' 1570 map. The shape of Asia is fairly accurate for this period. Geographically, the map shows all of Asia from the Bosporus in the west to Japan and a portion of North America in the east. Of particular interest, a large New Guinea (Nova Gvinea) is at the bottom right of the map along with a region below that shows Terre incoguitae Pars Australis. Giovanni Magini (1555-1617), originally from Padua, was a professor of astronomy at the University of Bologna. Magini was the author of this 1696 edition of Ptolemy's Geographia as well as the first printed atlas of Italy, among his numerous other publications. The finely-detailed copperplate for this map was engraved by Girolamo Porro of Padua (1550-1604). The map appeared in Magini's editions of Ptolemy's Geographia in 1596 and 1598, published in Venice, and in 1621, published in Padua. The 1598 and 1621 editions had the map placed on a page of text. This particular map appears to be from the edition of 1596.
Fine Condition. A strong, crisp map impression.
Stitch-holes at the left where the map was joined into the
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