Marcae Anconitanae seu Picoeni Agri Typus chorographicus &Vera et Fidelis descriptio Comitatus Zarae et Sebenici.. & Parmae

Etching with engraving, before 1573, signed in plate by Joannes Doetecum. Three maps on one sheet, printed on two sheets of copper. Example of the first edition of 1578. Magnificent proof, magnific contemporary colour, with margins, in perfect condition. In verse, Latin text and the Roman numeral XVII. The paper is based on a map of the Marche region of Ferrando Bertelli in 1565, while that of the region of Zadar and Sibenik on the one designed by Natale Bonifacio, and published by Paolo Forlani in 1570. We have no information on the map of the territory of Parma and Piacenza, which seems to be the first paper printed in the region. Gerard de Jode, was a cartographer, engraver, printer and publisher in Antwerp, active around the same period of Ortelius. In 1547 he obtained the privilege for the publishing business, but was never able to represent a real threat to his business rival. Ironically, he published a major rival of the Globe, in eight sheets, in 1564. His most important atlas, Speculum Orbis Terrarum, now extremely rare, could not be released until 1578, ie eight years after the Theatrum Orbis Terraum of Ortelius, who had obtained a monopoly for the Cartographic Publishing Antwerp. The papers of De Jode were finely translated copper in typical Flemish brothers Joannes and Lucas van Doetecum, the best engravers of maps of the time. On the death of Gerard, the son Cornelis published in 1593, a reprint of the atlas increased. 480x135 and 487x253 sizes.