Rosaccio, Gioseppe
Attractive copy of a highly illustrated itinerary from Venice to Constantinople, comprising 72 full-page maps, including many of Constantinople and also of Cyprus, Famagusta, Crete, Rhodes, Jerusalem and the Near East. Published several times in the first half of the 17th century, the subsequent editions contained a variable number of plates. The maps show cities and outposts along the Mediterranean, the Dalmatian coast and the Levant.
4to oblong, (145 x 205 mm). Title page, 76 ff., 72 full page maps and views. Contemporary limp vellum, spine lettered in ink, some soiling and staining. Edges worn to title page, small piece of blank margin missing, scattered foxing and mild toning, often uniform.
Provenance: armorial bookplate of Richard Robert Madden (1798 – 1886), Irish writer, abolitionist (active in abolishing slavery in Jamaica) and historian, pasted onto title page.
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