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Il mondo e sue parti cioe Europa, Affrica, Asia, et America. : Nel quale, oltre alle tauole in disegno, si discorre delle sue prouincie, regni, regioni, città ... e costumi.

Rosaccio, Giuseppe, approximately 1530-approximately 1620 · 1595 · In Fiorenza, : Appresso Francesco Tosi. · 19 pictures

A 1595 Florentine cosmography by Giuseppe Rosaccio, published by Francesco Tosi, describing Europe, Africa, Asia and America with maps and accounts of their provinces, kingdoms and customs. The pictures are small woodcut initial letters, mostly capital H, framed with angels, skulls and foliage in dense black-and-white cutting, a model for decorative letterforms and framed initials.

Cosmography · Geography · Imprint 1595

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