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hand-coloured copper engraving on a full sheet with Latin text and below an engraving of a soldier on guard.
RARE map from ‘Universus Terrarum Orbis Sciptorum’, page 216.
Shows Indonesia and a Philippines still without Luzon and badly misshaped as of the mid 16th century. Girolamo Porro engraved the map in 1596 for Magini’s edition of Ptolemy’s Geographia. The plate last appeared in this work of Rafael Savonarola who published it under the pseudonym of Alonso Lasor de Varea
because his own name was still associated with the infamous Dominican priest, Girolamo Savonarola; the leader of Florence from 1494 to 1498, known for his book burning in the Bonfire of the Vanities.
Very good to excellent condition.
