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Sep. 21, 2024
PAOLO FORLANI MAP OF SOUTH AMERICA
Est: $60,000 - $90,000
FORLANI, Paolo (fl. 1560-1571). [South America] La Descrittione Di Tutto II Peru. Engraved map. Venice: Paulo de Forlani da Verona, 1562. 21 x 15 7/8" sheet, 30 1/2" x 25" framed. THE FIRST LARGE-SCALE DELINEATION OF SOUTH AMERICA TO APPEAR IN PRINT The two leading cartographic figures in the Lafreri school were undoubtedly Giacomo Gastaldi (ca.1500-1566), arguably the greatest cartographer of the period, and Paolo Forlani (fl. 1560-1571), the leading engraver/mapmaker of the day, with a great artistic sensibility, both of whom worked in Venice. Forlani, was responsible for some of the most beautiful and visually appealing maps of his time, the most important and impressive of which is undoubtedly his "La descrittione di tutto il Perv", the first largescale delineation of South America to appear in print and the only Lafreri school map of South America. A landmark in the mapping of South America, this is the largest and most detailed delineation of that continent published to date, the map also includes most of the West Indies and the southern extremity of Florida, a large Tierra del Fuego, and all the Caribbean islands.
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Apr. 06, 2024
FORLANI MAP OF EGYPT 1566, THE FIRST MODERN MAP OF EGYPT
Est: $3,000 - $5,000
FORLANI, Paolo (fl. 1560-1571/4?). Nuova, et coppiosa, descrittone [sic] di tutto l'Egitto. Engraved map. Venice: Paolo Forlani, 1566. 10 1/4" x 13 1/4" sheet. THE FIRST MODERN MAP OF EGYPT, upon which Abraham Ortelius based his atlas map "Aegypti recentior descriptio." Engraved map of Egypt with latitudinal and longitudinal lines along margins, showing topography, vegetation, waterways, ports, and pictorial vignettes of settlements. PROVENANCE: Reiss & Sohn (sale, 13 November 2018, lot 2462). REFERENCES: Bifolco & Ronca, "Cartografia e topografia italiana del XVI secolo," I, p. 462, no. 106; Tooley, 193; cf. Van den Broecke, "Ortelius Atlas Maps. An Illustrated Guide" (2d ed.), 174b, pp. 518- 519.
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Jan. 27, 2024
FORLANI & BERTELLI MAP OF ROME, ITALY
Est: $9,000 - $12,000
FORLANI, Paolo (fl. 1560-1571) ; BERTELLI, Ferrando (b. 1525). [Rome] Nova discrittione di tutto il territorio de Roma. Engraved map. Venice: 1563. 20 1/2" x 23 3/8" sheet; 29 5/8" x 32 5/8" framed. Beautifully Engraved Map of Rome and the surrounding Region. A rare and finely engraved 'Lafreri School' map of Rome and Latium, first published by the Venetian master Giovanni Francesco Camocio, after the cartography of Eufrosino della Volpaia. This is a later version of the map, entirely re-engraved on new plates, by Fernando Bertelli & Paolo Forlani in 1563. References: Tooley 480; Woodward 23.
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Jan. 27, 2024
FORLANI MAP OF GERMANY
Est: $3,000 - $5,000
FORLANI, Paolo (fl. ca. 1560-1571). Germania Dela Gastaldo. Engraved map. Venice: Bertelli, c. 1561-1572. 19 1/2" x 25 7/8" sheet, 10 1/8" x 14 5/8" plate.
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Jan. 27, 2024
BALLINO'S DE DISEGNI DELLE PIU ILLUSTRI CITTA
Est: $25,000 - $35,000
BALLINO, Giulio (d. ca.1592); ZALTIERI, Bolognino (active 1555-1576); FORLANI, Paolo (active 1560-1577); ZENOI, Domenico (active 1560-1580). De disegni delle piu illustri città, et fortezze del mondo. Parte I, la quale ne contiene cinquanta, con una breve historia delle origini, et accidenti loro, secondo l ordine de tempi; raccolta da M. Giulio Ballino. Venetiis: Bolognini Zalterii typiis, et formis; 1569. Quarto (10 3/4" x 8 1/4"): [4], [206]; engraved title-page by Nicolo Nelli, dedication leaf, manuscript index in early ink on verso of first map, and 53 mostly double-page engraved maps, city plans, fortifications and battle scenes with letterpress text in Italian on versos. Bound in contemporary vellum, gilt morocco spine label; early ink shelf marks on spine, very light general wear; pencil annotations to front pastedown, plan of Comar trimmed to plate and mounted to leaf (as issued), plans of Nettuno and Jerusalem with a small amount of period hand-coloring, plans of Perpignano and Constantinople each with a small tear at centerfold, and light intermittent foxing. Includes an additional double-page engraved plan of Perpignan, "Disegno della piazza et assedio di Perpignano," by Horatio Marinari, 1642 bound in after chapter on Perpignan. ATTRACTIVE COPY OF RARE AND IMPORTANT ITALIAN ATLAS, WITH MANY CITY PLANS BY PAOLO FORLANI AND DOMENICO ZENOI. Little is known about Giulio Ballino, Italian humanist and scholar who compiled the work and wrote the text. He was an associate of Paolo Manuzio (1512-1574), who mentions him in correspondence in the 1560s as working for him in various capacities, including corrector and editor (cf. Sbriziolo). Ballino s literary activity was primarily as a popularizer, translating many Greek philosophical and theological works into Italian. Printer and publisher Bolognino Zaltieri used the plates of several different engravers throughout the book, many being plans by Paolo Forlani (active 1560-1577) and Domenico Zenoi (active 1560-1580) that first appeared just two years earlier in Forlani s Il primo libro delle città, et fortezze principali del mondo (1567). The chart of Europe is by Girolamo Olgiato (active 1567-1575); Mexico City (here called "Timistitano", i.e. Tenochtitlan) is the only plan in the atlas of a site in the western hemisphere. The map of Central Europe and a marine chart of Europe by Olgiato are followed by views or battle plans of Venice, Fano, Mirandola, Florence, Siena, ancient Rome, modern Rome, Borgo di Roma, Castel Sant'Angelo, Ostia, Nettuno, Civitella, Vicovaro, Naples, Messina, Genoa, Parma, Piacenza, Milan, Crescentino, Paris, Perpignan (with an additional plan from 1642), Metz, Thionville, Cales, Guines, Antwerp, Gravelines, Augsburg, Frankfurt, Geneva, Gotha, Wittenberg, Vienna, Eger, Gyor, Comar, Gyula, Tokaji, Sziget, Zsaka, Constantinople, the Grand Turk and his army, Jerusalem, Tiberias, Malta (fortification), Malta (siege), Tripoli, Zerbe, Peñon de Velez de la Gomera, and Mexico City. REFERENCES: Cremonini 4; Lia Sbriziolo, "Giulio Ballino", Treccani Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, vol. 5 (1963) (online); R. V. Tooley, "Maps in Italian Atlases of the Sixteenth Century, being a comparative list of the Italian maps issued by Lafreri, Forlani, Duchetti, Bertelli and others, found in atlases", Imago Mundi 3 (1939): pp. 12-47.
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May. 23, 2023
Paolo Forlani, GENOVA. Venetia: Bolognino Zaltieri, 1569.
Est: €180 - €360
Paolo Forlani, GENOVA. Venetia: Bolognino Zaltieri, 1569. Incisione in rame. mm 185x280. Foglio: mm 260x388. Veduta prospettica di Genova incisa da Paolo Forlani nel 1567 per il suo Libro delle città et fortezze principali del mondo, qui nell'edizione veneziana di Bolognino Zaltieri del 1569 con il testo di Giulio Ballino al verso. (1)
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Apr. 22, 2023
Forlani Map of North America, 1566 - THE EARLIEST PRINTED MAP DEVOTED TO THE CONTINENT OF NORTH AMERICA
Est: $100,000 - $125,000
FORLANI, Paolo (fl. 1560-1571). Il Disegno Del Discoperto Della Nova Franza, il quale s'e hauuto ultimamente dalla nouissima nauigatione de""Franzesi in quel luogo. Engraved map. Venice: Bolognino Zaltieri, 1566. 16" x 22" sheet, 21 1/2" x 27" framed, full margins, showing the plate mark. THE EARLIEST PRINTED MAP DEVOTED TO THE CONTINENT OF NORTH AMERICA, AND THE FIRST MAP TO SHOW THE STRAIT OF ANIAN WHICH SEPARATES AMERICA FROM ASIA. ________________________________ John Rennie Short description: "A great example of the golden period of Venetian mapmaking. In the sixteenth century a number of mapmakers were working out of Venice. Many employed the distinctive style of small copper plate engravings, Mapmakers included Giacomo Gastadi (1500-1565), Bolognino Zaltieri (1555-1576) and Paolo Forlani who flourished between 1560 and 1571). They drew on each other work and ideas to produce world maps and maps of the New World This map reveals the state of European knowledge of the time. The Spanish territories in the Caribbean ad Central America, and French claims in along the St Lawrence are better known than the vast interior of New France. The map reveals a New World only just being colonized. The vast interior still remains something of a mystery. The world has yet to be fully comprehended: the lonely island of Japan sits in the middle of Pacific yet to be fully integrated into an accurate world view." _________________________________ First published the previous year without Zaltieri's imprint. The modest dimensions of Paolo Forlani's rare and finely engraved map of North America belie its signal importance in the history of New World cartography. It is the earliest printed map devoted solely to North America, the first to portray that landmass as a separate continent and the first to show the so-called Strait of Anian separating America from Asia at the approximate location of the Bering Strait (in a purely coincidental instance of early geographical myth dovetailing with the discoveries of later exploration). The first depictions of the American continent appeared on early world maps as the eastern component of the Asian land mass" (Cohen). Entitled "?"The Drawing of the Discovery of New France, recently derived from the Newest Voyage of the French in that Region" Forlani based his rendering largely on the western part of a world map published by his colleague, the great Venetian cartographer Giacomo Gastaldi, several years before. Gastaldi had been the first to formulate the concept of the Strait of Anian, a name that probably originated with Ania, a Chinese province mentioned in a 1559 edition of Marco Polo's travels. Forlani's early graphic depiction of Gastaldi's mistaken theory, which persisted well into the eighteenth century, makes this map a cornerstone work in the mapping of America. In the early 1560s, Forlani also published a map of South America and the West Indies, "La descrittione de tutto il Peru', and with this 1565 map of North America he completed his coverage of the New World. The map stretches from Greenland down the coast of Canada and the Atlantic Seaboard to the West Indies, including a corner of South America, and from the coast of China in the west to the Azores and Cape Verde in the east. It is the first map to portray North America as a continent separate from Asia, and the first to show the Strait of Anian (the Bering Strait), depicted as flowing between the Mare Setentrionale in Cognito (north of the North American continent) and the Golfo Chinan (west of the continent). The concept of a strait separating America from Asia was first proposed only four years earlier by Giacomo Gastaldi in his pamphlet "La Universale Descrittione del Mondo" (Venice, 1562). The map also includes French names, such as Lacardia and Canada, as well as Spanish names, including Florida, and the first ever mention of the Sierra Nevada (snowy mountains). Quivira is shown as an Indian Tribe in south-central Kansas, reached by Francisco Vasquez de Coronado in 1541. Quivira was the name of the mythical kingdom of gold sought by Coronado, but became the Spanish word for Wichita, the Indian tribe that Coronado found instead of gold. Until fairly recently, the map was attributed to Venetian publisher Bolognino Zaltieri, whose name and imprint appear on the second state, published in 1566, as here. As David Woodward has demonstrated, however, authorship should be ascribed to Forlani, who sold some copperplates - including, presumably, the one used to print this map - to Zaltieri sometime around late 1565 or early 1566. Zaltieri then altered the plate, adding his own name, and proceeded to issue his own examples of the map, in a practice of appropriation (or licit plagiarism) that was quite common in the fluid world of Venetian map publishing. Following in the footsteps of his great colleague Giacomo Gastaldi, Paolo Forlani was a Venetian engraver and publisher of many significant maps and charts in the period of the Renaissance. It was in Italy, and particularly in Venice, that the map trade, which was to influence profoundly the course of cartographic history, was most highly developed during the first half of the 16th century. Venice was the most active port in the world, and successful trading expeditions necessitated accurate maps. In the 15th century the city had already become a clearing-house for geographical information, and the development of cartography in the city was further impelled by the accomplishment of Venetian printers and engravers. Forlani was perhaps the most prolific producer of maps in the mid-16th century, and largely responsible for diffusing advanced geographical information to other parts of Europe. (Ashley Bayntun-Williams, "The Lafreri School of Italian Mapmakers circa 1544 -1602" online). Cohen, "Mapping of the West", pages 29-30. R.V. Tooley, "Maps in Italian Atlases of the Sixteenth Century," Imago Mundi 3 (1939), n. 80; Lloyd Arnold Brown, The World Encompassed, exh. cat. (Baltimore, 1952), n. 207; David Woodward, "The Forlani Map of North America," Imago Mundi 46 (1994): 29-40; Philip D. Burden, The Mapping of North America: A List of Printed Maps 1511-1670 (Rickmansworth, 1996), 41." Plate 30 in Schwartz / Ehrenberg "The Mapping of America".
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Jan. 28, 2023
Forlani's Map of the Danube River after Gastaldi
Est: $10,000 - $20,000
FORLANI, Paolo (fl. 1560-1571); GASTALDI, Giacomo (c. 1500-1566). [River Danube] Map of Romania, Bulgaria and Hungary by Giacomo Gastaldi, engraved by Paulo Forlani. Engraved map, two sheets joined. Venice: 1566. 21 6/16" x 43 1/16" sheet; 29" x 50" framed. Title: Disegno particolare de Regni e Regioni che son da Venetia, a Costatinopoli, et da Constantinopoli, a Vienna, d'Austria, et da Vienna, a Praga Citta regal, di Boemia, et alla Citta regal di Polonia, et altri paesi fuori de detti uiaggi, come si uede distintamente nel disegno. Alternate Title: La discrittione della Transilvania, et parte dell'Vngaria, et il simile della Romania. A very rare and important map of the basin of the River Danube, issued on two separate sheets. On 29 April, 1559 Gastaldi was granted a privilege by the Venetian senate to print a large four-sheet map of southeastern Europe, with each sheet conceived such that it could function independently as a complete map. Later that year, Gastaldi published the two northern quadrants of the planned composition. The plates he used were acquired in 1560 by Antonio Lafreri to print his own edition, in which he initially replaced Gastaldi's name with his own. This present map is Lafreri's scarce second version, in which his name has been removed from the cartouche on the eastern sheet. The image covers the territory from Venice to the mouth of the Danube on the Black Sea. A rare map, Karrow cites only two copies of the eastern plate of this edition. Karrow no.1 (variant), Tooley:1939 no.27, watermark of a man with a pickaxe, not in Woodward:1996. (2)
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Nov. 19, 2022
Forlani Map of Germany, 1564
Est: $12,000 - $18,000
FORLANI, Paolo (fl. 1560-1571) - GASTALDI, Giacomo (c. 1500-1566). [Northern Europe] Germania del Gastaldo. Engraved map. Venice: Paulo Forlani, Veronese, 1564. 20 1/2" x 28 1/4" sheet; 32" x 39 3/4" framed. Forlani's Great Map of Germany. A beautiful Lafreri school map of northern Europe. Lafreri, arguably Italy's most influential and successful commissioner and publisher of maps, was in fact a Frenchman from Burgundy, born Antoine du Pérac Lefréry of Besançon, who settled in Rome in 1540 and in 1544 established his business as an engraver and print seller in the Via del Perione. From 1553 onwards becoming the leading dealer in engravings in Rome. Lafreri was primarily a dealer and publisher, rather than an artisan in his own right. He carried in stock the prints made not only by his own establishment, but by others, and his own name appears comparatively seldom in the atlases attributed to him. The two leading cartographic figures in the Lafreri school were undoubtedly Giacomo Gastaldi (ca.1500-1566), arguably the greatest cartographer of the period, and Paolo Forlani (fl. 1560-1571), the leading engraver/mapmaker of the day, with a great artistic sensibility, both of whom worked in Venice, and who contributed to this creation of this superb and detailed map. Gastaldi was undoubtedly the greatest master of Venetian cartography. Having been established in the city for two decades, by the late 1550s Gastaldi was devising the large-scale monumental masterpieces that would confirm his legacy: his colossal maps of Asia, Europe and Italy. "Cosmographer to the Venetian Republic, then a powerhouse of commerce and trade. He sought the most up to date geographical information available, and became one of the greatest cartographers of the sixteenth century" (Burden). Giacomo Gastaldi was, and styled himself, 'Piemontese', and this epithet appears often after his name. Born at the end of the fifteenth or the beginning of the sixteenth century, he does not appear in any records until 1539, when the Venetian Senate granted him a privilege for the printing of a perpetual calendar. His first dated map appeared in 1544, by which time he had become an accomplished engineer and cartographer. Karrow has argued that Gastaldi's early contact with the celebrated geographical editor, Giovanni Battista Ramusio, and his involvement with the latter's work, "Navigationi et Viaggi", prompted him to take to cartography as a full-time occupation. In any case Gastaldi was helped by Ramusio's connections with the Senate, to which he was secretary, and the favourable attitude towards geography and geographers in Venice at the time. Forlani was perhaps the most prolific producer of maps in the mid-16th century, and largely responsible for diffusing advanced geographical information to other parts of Europe. He was responsible for some of the most beautiful and visually appealing maps of his time, following in the footsteps of his great colleague Giacomo Gastaldi, and was a Venetian engraver and publisher of many significant maps and charts in the period of the Renaissance. It was in Italy, and particularly in Venice, that the map trade, which was to influence profoundly the course of cartographic history, was most highly developed during the first half of the 16th century. Venice was the most active port in the world, and successful trading expeditions necessitated accurate maps. Venetian ships made regular trading voyages to the Levant and into the Black Sea, to the ports of Spain and Portugal, and along the coasts of Western Europe. In the 15th century the city had already become a clearing-house for geographical information, and the development of cartography in the city was further impelled by the accomplishment of Venetian printers and engravers. This beautiful map was engraved by Ferrando Bertelli (fl. 1556-1572), one of the most prolific of Venetian map publishers and engravers, who also sold composite atlases and worked at various times with other great names in Venetian cartography - Giovanni Francesco Camocio and Domenico Zenoi. Woodward "Catalogue of Watermarks in Italian Printed Maps, ca 1540-1600", 90B; Woodward "The Maps and Prints of Paolo Forlani,.", 32.
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Nov. 19, 2022
Forlani engraved map of Switzerland, 1567
Est: $18,000 - $25,000
LILY, George (Cartographer: fl.1528-1559); BEATRIZET, Nicolas (Engraver). Nove Germaniae description evm adiacentibus Italiae, Galliae, Britanniae, Poloniae, et Pannoniae partibus. Engraved map. Venice: Michele Tramezzini, 1553. 19 1/4" x 28 3/4" sheet; 28 1/2" x 38" framed. An important and highly decorative map of Germany and Northern Europe. It was made by George Lily, an English Catholic who was exiled to Rome, and is best known as the creator of the first separately-printed map of the British Isles. Geographically, it is directly derived from Giacomo Gastaldi's map of the region, printed in Venice in 1552, which it turn was based on the, now lost, map of Germany by Heinrich Zell, made in 1549/50. A visually engaging composition, it features the armorial crests of the dozens of entities that comprised the Holy Roman Empire and its neighbours. Karrow no.1, Tooley:1939 no.252, watermark similar to Woodward:1996 watermark 194.
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Nov. 19, 2022
Forlani Engraved Map of Rome, 1563
Est: $10,000 - $15,000
FORLANI, Paolo (fl. 1560-1571) ; BERTELLI, Ferrando (b. 1525). [Rome] Nova discrittione di tutto il territorio de Roma. Engraved map. Venice: 1563. 20 1/2" x 23 3/8" sheet; 29 5/8" x 32 5/8" framed. Beautifully Engraved Map of Rome and the surrounding Region. A rare and finely engraved 'Lafreri School' map of Rome and Latium, first published by the Venetian master Giovanni Francesco Camocio, after the cartography of Eufrosino della Volpaia. This is a later version of the map, entirely re-engraved on new plates, by Fernando Bertelli & Paolo Forlani in 1563. References: Tooley 480; Woodward 23.
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Nov. 19, 2022
Forlani Engraved Map of Italy, 1569
Est: $20,000 - $30,000
FORLANI, Paolo (fl. 1560-1571) ; GASTALDI, Giacomo (c. 1500-1566). [Italy] [Ded. to Carlo Vicentino] Al Molto magno. et exccellmo Sigor. Carlo Vicentino sup sigor sempre ossexmo. Tra Ie piu belle e plu perfette opera di M. Giacomo Gastaldi prestantissimo Cosmografo, alcuna no e' che mai s'habbi possuto coparare alla sua Italia .. . Di Venetia il pm« dell Anno MDLXVIIII Paolo Forlani Veronese. Engraved map. Venice: 1569. 22" x 31 3/16" sheet; 33 1/2" x 42 3/4" framed. A HIGHLY IMPORTANT AND INFLUENTIAL MAP, the apex of Gastaldi's cartographer's vision of Italy, and certainly one of his great masterpieces. This is Forlani's derivatives of Gastaldi's great map. The peninsula is shown with great detail and accuracy, a broad panopticon sweeping diagonally across the map from the alpine lakes in the north to the Strait of Messina in the south, with seas adorned with elegantly engraved ships. It is based on Gastaldi's earlier Italian regional maps supplemented with the best contemporary sources. While it bears a resemblance to the southwestern plate of his monumental four sheet map of southeastern Europe, the image had been revised and enlarged. Although Gastaldi, originally of Piedmont, had been working as a cartographer in Venice since 1539, this is his first large-scale map of Italy. One of the most influential maps of the sixteenth-century, Roberto Almagià referred to it as "truly one of the milestones in the evolution of the cartography of Italy" (see Karrow, p.236).
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Mar. 16, 2021
(Map - Tripoli, Libya) Il Vero Disegno del Porto, della Citta, della Fortezza, et del Sito Dove e Posta Tripoli di Barbaria
Est: $350 - $450
Tripoli, Libya. Paolo de Forlani, Il Vero Disegno del Porto, della Citta, della Fortezza, et del Sito Dove e Posta Tripoli di Barbaria, from De' Disegni delle Piu Illustri Citta, et Fortezze del Mondo, 1567 (dated). Black & White. This very rare bird's-eye view was engraved by Paolo Forlani and is one of the earliest obtainable plans of Tripoli. Forlani first published this engraving in his Il primo libro delle citta, et fortezze principali del mondo in 1567. Giulio Ballino used plates from Forlani and Domenico Zenoi to publish De' Disegni delle Piu Illustri Citta, et Fortezze del Mondo... in 1569. The view shows the environs of the fortified port of Tripoli with numerous castles, towers, and men on horseback in the countryside, while various ships sail in the port and Mediterranean. A compass rose orients north to the top left of the sheet. Italian text on verso.
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Jan. 27, 2018
Gastaldi and Forlani's 1562 Engraved Map of Africa
Est: $25,000 - $35,000
La Descrittione dell'Africa. Giacomo Gastaldi (1500-1566) / Paolo Forlani (fl. 1560-1571). Engraved Map. Venice: Paolo Forlani, 1562. 19 x 25 1/4 inches sheet, 30 1/4 x 37 inches framed. The Most Important map of Africa published during the Renaissance. In 1546, the Venetian Council of Ten issued an order that a map of Africa be prepared for the Sala del Scude of the Palazzo Ducale (Doges Palace). This task was entrusted to the foremost Italian cartographer of the sixteenth century, Giacomo Gastaldi. More than two-hundred years later, in the 1760s, Gastaldis map of Africa, along with another of China that he executed several years later, was painted over and the original lost to posterity. It was preserved, however, in the form of this splendid map of Africa, finely engraved and published by Paolo Forlani in 1562. Forlani was perhaps the most prolific producer of maps in the mid-sixteenth century, and largely responsible for diffusing advanced geographical information to other parts of Europe. He was much-sought after as an engraver and mapmaker, particularly as he was adept at the difficult art of engraving lettering. Consequently, he was employed by four of the leading publishers of the period to prepare maps for them -- Giovanni Francesco Camocio, Ferrando Bertelli, and Bolognini Zaltieri from Venice, as well as Claudio Duchetti from Rome. This map is a prime example of Forlanis finest work, characterized by crisp engraving, close attention to detail, and an elegant, linear aesthetic. Africa had long held the European popular imagination and, like the New World, was the target of many voyages of discovery. From the early fifteenth century, the nautical school of Henry the Navigator had been extending Portuguese knowledge of the African coastline. Beginning in the 1460s, the goal was to round that continents southern extremity to gain easier access to the riches of India (mainly black pepper and other spices) through a reliable sea route. In 1482, Diogo Cão discovered the Congo River, reaching as far as Cape Santa Maria, and then in 1488 Bartolomeu Diaz rounded the Cape of Good Hope, proving that access to the Indian Ocean was possible. Finally, in 1497-8, Vasco da Gama culminated a generation of Portuguese sea exploration when he continued beyond Diazs tracks up the east coast of Africa and successfully landed at the southwestern coast of the Indian subcontinent. At the same time, Africa itself became a target for exploration -- and not just a geographical obstacle to trade with the Far East -- for the European discovery of the Americas in 1492 was followed by a great development of the slave trade. This industry, while ignominious, did have the side-effect of stimulating the production of better maps, and Gastaldis delineation of Africa was perhaps the most accurate of its time.
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Jun. 03, 2017
Forlani Seperately Issued Map of Germania after Gastaldi
Est: $3,000 - $5,000
Germania del Gastaldo. Paolo Forlani (fl. 1560-1571), after Giacomo Gastaldi (c. 1500-1566). Engraved map laid down on 17th century paper. Venice: Forlani, 1564. 19 1/2 x 26 inches sheet. The two leading cartographic figures in the Lafreri school were undoubtedly Giacomo Gastaldi (ca.1500-1566), arguably the greatest cartographer of the period, and Paolo Forlani (fl. 1560-1571), the leading engraver/mapmaker of the day, with a great artistic sensibility, both of whom worked in Venice, and who contributed to this creation of this superb and detailed map.
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Jun. 13, 2015
Carta Geografica, Ducato di Savoia
Est: $2,500 - $3,000
Paolo Forlani. Engraved map. Venice: Ferdinando Bertelli, 1562. 20 1/4 x 26 inches, 29 3/4 x 35 1/8 inches framed. Only the second printed map of the Savoy region in Italy.
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Apr. 18, 2015
Untitled map of Geneva
Est: $2,000 - $3,000
Paolo Forlani (Italy, fl.1560 - 1574). Venice, 1567. 10 6/8 x 16 2/8 inches. A highly rare and finely engraved Sixteenth-Century map of Geneva. These city views for Forlani?s famous atlas are the first of its kind in cartographic history, predating Braun & Hogenberg?s better known atlas by five years.
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