Copper Engraved hand coloured map. Venice publ. by Rascicotti engraved by Mazza circa 1583.

This is a rare or used book from the Berkelouw Rare Books Department.

Amsterdam: Frederick Muller 1894. No. 52 of only 100 copies printed on Dutch paper (Van Gelder). Engraved image measuring approx. 48 x 36cm with wide margins. Contemp. hand coloured. Mounted and framed in a gilt lined mahogony frame behind glass. A very handsome piece. NOTE: This little known Italian map of North and South America is a clever adaption by Gio. Bat. Mazza the engraver of the "Maris Pacifici" map dated 1589 and first pub. in the Additamentum to the "Theatrum Orbis Terrarum" of Abr. Ortelius of 1590. Original copy in the Trinity College Library Cambridge.