EGITTO NUOVA TABULA
£145
Fine attractive and detailed first edition Ruscelli map of the Nile Delta Showing Alexandria , Suez and the pryamids. It is the second modern map of the Lower Nile, predated only by the 1548 Gastaldi map.
One of the earliest acquirable maps to show the Nile Delta with contemporaneous information; it is also one of the first printed maps to depict the Egyptian Pyramids.
Very good hand colour
Excellent condition.
Ruscelli's Atlas is an expanded edition of Gastaldi's Atlas of 1548, which has been called the most comprehensive atlas produced between Martin Waldseemüller's Geographiae of 1513, and the Abraham Ortelius Theatrum of 1570. Ruscelli and Gastaldi's maps were beautifully engraved on copper, marking a turning point in the history of cartography.
code : M5562
Cartographer : RUSCELLI Girolamo
Date : 1561 Venice
Size : 19*26 cms sheet 23.5*31.5 cms
availability : Available
Price : £145
Girolamo Ruscelli (1500s-1566) was an Italian polymath, humanist, editor, and cartographer active in Venice during the early 16th century. Ruscelli is best known for his important revision of Ptolemy's Geographia, which was published post humously in 1574. It is generally assumed that Alexius Pedemontanus was a pseudonym of Girolamo Ruscelli. In a later work, Ruscelli reported that the Secreti contained the experimental results of an ‘Academy of Secrets’ that he and a group of humanists and noblemen founded in Naples in the 1540s. Ruscelli’s academy is the first recorded example of an experimental scientific society. The academy was later imitated by Giambattista Della Porta, who founded an ‘Accademia dei Secreti’ in Naples in the 1560s.
