Italiae Totius Orbis olim Domatricis Nova et Exactissima Descriptio

Reference: S30722
Author Gerard DE JODE
Year: 1577 ca.
Zone: Italy
Printed: Antwerpen
Measures: 515 x 365 mm
€3,500.00

Reference: S30722
Author Gerard DE JODE
Year: 1577 ca.
Zone: Italy
Printed: Antwerpen
Measures: 515 x 365 mm
€3,500.00

Description

De Jode’s map represents the first foreign reissue of the great carthographic analysis of the peninsula of Giacomo Gastaldi, published in Venice in 1561.

Gastaldi’s map was immediately appreciated and after 1567, the year of its author’s death, it was reprinted under many circumstances: reissues, reductions, copies and fakes, until 1600. Gerard de Jode, publisher and cartographer of Antwerp, had already realized, in 1568, a map in four sheets whose inspiration was clearly Galtaldi’s; in 1578 the Flemish publisher printed the first edition of his famous Speculum Orbis Terrarum, where a reduction of the map of the peninsula was included.

The atlas, whose first edition is extremely rare, has benne afterwards reissued by the son Cornelis in 1593, with some changes in the text and the numre of plates. Copper engraving, engraved by the brothers Johoannes or Lucas van Deutecum, light ceintral paper folds, small tear perfectly repaired, otherwise in good condition.

Bibliografia

Borri pp. 51-52, 48; Perini pp. 30-32; Almagià p. 27. 

Literature

R. Borri "L'Italia nelle antiche carte…" (2011), scheda 54; Perini pp. 30-32; Almagià p. 27.

Gerard DE JODE (1509 - 1591)

Gerard de Jode, born in Nijmegen, was a cartographer, engraver, printer and publisher in Antwerp, issuing maps from 1555 more or less in the same period as Ortelius. He was never able to offer very serious competition to his more businesslike rival although, ironically, he published Ortelius's famous 8-sheet World Map in 1564. His major atlas, now extremely rare, could not be published until 1578, eight years after the Theatrum, Ortelius having obtained a monopoly for that period. The enlarged re-issue by his son in 1593 is more frequently found. On the death of Cornelis, the copper plates passed to J. B. Vrients (who bought the Ortelius plates about the same time) and apparently no further issue of the atlas was published: however, at least one further issue of the Polar Map, c.1618, is known. Son of Gerard de Jode, who was a cartographer, engraver, printer and publisher in Antwerp, issuing maps from 1555 more or less in the same period as Ortelius. Gerard de Jode's major atlas, now extremely rare, could not be published until 1578, eight years after the Theatrum, Ortelius having obtained a monopoly for that period. The enlarged re-issue by his Cornelis in 1593 is more frequently found. On the death of Cornelis, the copper plates passed to J. B. Vrients (who bought the Ortelius plates about the same time) and apparently no further issue of the atlas was published: however, at least one further issue of the Polar Map, c.1618, is known.

Literature

R. Borri "L'Italia nelle antiche carte…" (2011), scheda 54; Perini pp. 30-32; Almagià p. 27.

Gerard DE JODE (1509 - 1591)

Gerard de Jode, born in Nijmegen, was a cartographer, engraver, printer and publisher in Antwerp, issuing maps from 1555 more or less in the same period as Ortelius. He was never able to offer very serious competition to his more businesslike rival although, ironically, he published Ortelius's famous 8-sheet World Map in 1564. His major atlas, now extremely rare, could not be published until 1578, eight years after the Theatrum, Ortelius having obtained a monopoly for that period. The enlarged re-issue by his son in 1593 is more frequently found. On the death of Cornelis, the copper plates passed to J. B. Vrients (who bought the Ortelius plates about the same time) and apparently no further issue of the atlas was published: however, at least one further issue of the Polar Map, c.1618, is known. Son of Gerard de Jode, who was a cartographer, engraver, printer and publisher in Antwerp, issuing maps from 1555 more or less in the same period as Ortelius. Gerard de Jode's major atlas, now extremely rare, could not be published until 1578, eight years after the Theatrum, Ortelius having obtained a monopoly for that period. The enlarged re-issue by his Cornelis in 1593 is more frequently found. On the death of Cornelis, the copper plates passed to J. B. Vrients (who bought the Ortelius plates about the same time) and apparently no further issue of the atlas was published: however, at least one further issue of the Polar Map, c.1618, is known.