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Geografia di M. Livio Sanvto, distinta in XII libri : ne' quali, oltra l'esplicatione di molti luoghi di Tolomeo e della Bussola, e dell' Aguglia, si dichiarano le prouincie, popoli, regni, città, porti, monti, fiumi, laghi, e costumi dell'Africa : con XII tauole di essa Africa in dissegno di rame : aggiuntiui de piu tre indicci da M. Giovan Carlo Saraceni

Sanuto, Livio, 1520-1576 · 1588 · In Vinegia : Appresso Damiano Zenaro · 15 pictures

Livio Sanuto's 1588 Venetian geography of Africa, printed in Venice by Damiano Zenaro, is a scholarly atlas-treatise in twelve books with copper-engraved maps of the continent, aimed at humanist readers and cartographers. The pictures are fine engraved maps with ruled borders, hatched coastlines, rhumb-line details, and stippled sea-surfaces with ships, sea monsters and dense place-name lettering; a designer might borrow the engraved hachuring, decorative cartouche-like compass roses and the antique map typography.

Africa -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800 · Africa -- Maps -- Early works to 1800

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