LAFRERI, Antonio (c.1512-1577) and Claudio DUCHETTI (d.1585)]. Geographia tavole moderne di geografia de la maggior parte del mondo di diverse autori raccolte et messe secondo l'ordine di Tolomeo con i disegni di molte citta et fortesse di diverse provintie stampate in rame con studio et diligenza in Roma . Rome: Pietro de Nobili [1592].
LAFRERI, Antonio (c.1512-1577) and Claudio DUCHETTI (d.1585)]. Geographia tavole moderne di geografia de la maggior parte del mondo di diverse autori raccolte et messe secondo l'ordine di Tolomeo con i disegni di molte citta et fortesse di diverse provintie stampate in rame con studio et diligenza in Roma . Rome: Pietro de Nobili [1592]. Broadsheets (558 x 411 mm). ENGRAVED TITLE-PAGE AND 72 ENGRAVED MAPS OF THE LAFRERI SCHOOL on 6 double-sheets, 62 full sheets and one half sheet. Contemporary German blind- and gilt-tooled pigskin over pasteboard, front free endpaper watermark: crown with five points under star with "B" and "G" [Woodward 276] (recased, spine and corners repaired); cloth folding case. Provenance : early manuscript numbering on each sheet from 176 to 251 (no number 189, and number 215 unnumbered) -- Henry Stevens (1819-1886) -- George H. Beans (1894-1978). AN EXCEPTIONALLY FINE AND HIGHLY IMPORTANT ATLAS OF THE LAFRERI SCHOOL, AND THE ONLY RECORDED EXAMPLE WITH THE LAFRERI-NOBILI TITLE-PAGE Of the 72 maps, 14 are known only by the surviving examples in this volume, and 18 are known in only two extant copies. The world map is one of only six copies recorded, and seven other maps are known in four copies or fewer. This atlas is from the late phase of Antonio Lafreri's publications, after Nobili acquired the plates from Lafreri and others. Antonio Lafreri, a Frenchman from Burgundy (born Antoine du Pérac Lefréry of Besançon), settled in Rome in 1540, Italianized his name, and in 1544 set up business as an engraver and printseller in the Via del Perione. From 1553 onwards, Lafreri was associated in business with an established dealer, the elder Salamanca (Antonio). In 1562 Salamanca died, and a year later, the connection between the younger Salamanca (Francesco) and Lafreri was dissolved. From that date until his death in 1577, Lafreri published on his own account, and became 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. Claudio Duchetti, Lafreri's nephew, was part heir and successor to Lafreri's business, and the map of Pozzuoli (BHS.47, dated 1586) is signed by his heirs. The title-page, with the added signature of Pietro de Nobili as publisher, is of special importance since few of the Lafreri-school atlases were issued with title-pages, and no other copy carries this second and final state of the title, with Nobili's name. This confirms the descent of the Lafreri business through Duchetti to Pietro di Nobili. The figure of the Titan Atlas supporting the world is first used on this title-page, and was later widely imitated (see back cover of dust jacket). This collection is a true IATO (Italian-Assembled-To-Order) atlas. From the beginning these maps were sold separately, but the idea of assembling collections to the particular desires of a customer and the binding of the whole together in atlas form was developed no later than 1568. No two of these atlases are alike, either in number of maps nor in their content, be they Roman or Venetian. Venetian and Roman dealers borrowed from each other, sometimes using a map without alteration, at other times procuring the copperplate and erasing the original imprint and substituting their own. For this reason, IATO atlases are found with a mixture of Venetian and Roman imprints. The assembly of such collections resulted in the preservation of some maps that would otherwise have perished in their separately issued state. This collection includes the world map of Gastaldi, as engraved by Forlani and published by Duchetti; 3 maps of America (Iceland, St. Domingo and Cuba); 66 of Europe and the Mediterranean (including 30 of Italy and 5 of Greece), Madagascar and Ceylon. 17 maps show cities that are finely detailed and
LAFRERI, Antonio (c.1512-1577) and Claudio DUCHETTI (d.1585)]. Geographia tavole moderne di geografia de la maggior parte del mondo di diverse autori raccolte et messe secondo l'ordine di Tolomeo con i disegni di molte citta et fortesse di diverse provintie stampate in rame con studio et diligenza in Roma . Rome: Pietro de Nobili [1592].
LAFRERI, Antonio (c.1512-1577) and Claudio DUCHETTI (d.1585)]. Geographia tavole moderne di geografia de la maggior parte del mondo di diverse autori raccolte et messe secondo l'ordine di Tolomeo con i disegni di molte citta et fortesse di diverse provintie stampate in rame con studio et diligenza in Roma . Rome: Pietro de Nobili [1592]. Broadsheets (558 x 411 mm). ENGRAVED TITLE-PAGE AND 72 ENGRAVED MAPS OF THE LAFRERI SCHOOL on 6 double-sheets, 62 full sheets and one half sheet. Contemporary German blind- and gilt-tooled pigskin over pasteboard, front free endpaper watermark: crown with five points under star with "B" and "G" [Woodward 276] (recased, spine and corners repaired); cloth folding case. Provenance : early manuscript numbering on each sheet from 176 to 251 (no number 189, and number 215 unnumbered) -- Henry Stevens (1819-1886) -- George H. Beans (1894-1978). AN EXCEPTIONALLY FINE AND HIGHLY IMPORTANT ATLAS OF THE LAFRERI SCHOOL, AND THE ONLY RECORDED EXAMPLE WITH THE LAFRERI-NOBILI TITLE-PAGE Of the 72 maps, 14 are known only by the surviving examples in this volume, and 18 are known in only two extant copies. The world map is one of only six copies recorded, and seven other maps are known in four copies or fewer. This atlas is from the late phase of Antonio Lafreri's publications, after Nobili acquired the plates from Lafreri and others. Antonio Lafreri, a Frenchman from Burgundy (born Antoine du Pérac Lefréry of Besançon), settled in Rome in 1540, Italianized his name, and in 1544 set up business as an engraver and printseller in the Via del Perione. From 1553 onwards, Lafreri was associated in business with an established dealer, the elder Salamanca (Antonio). In 1562 Salamanca died, and a year later, the connection between the younger Salamanca (Francesco) and Lafreri was dissolved. From that date until his death in 1577, Lafreri published on his own account, and became 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. Claudio Duchetti, Lafreri's nephew, was part heir and successor to Lafreri's business, and the map of Pozzuoli (BHS.47, dated 1586) is signed by his heirs. The title-page, with the added signature of Pietro de Nobili as publisher, is of special importance since few of the Lafreri-school atlases were issued with title-pages, and no other copy carries this second and final state of the title, with Nobili's name. This confirms the descent of the Lafreri business through Duchetti to Pietro di Nobili. The figure of the Titan Atlas supporting the world is first used on this title-page, and was later widely imitated (see back cover of dust jacket). This collection is a true IATO (Italian-Assembled-To-Order) atlas. From the beginning these maps were sold separately, but the idea of assembling collections to the particular desires of a customer and the binding of the whole together in atlas form was developed no later than 1568. No two of these atlases are alike, either in number of maps nor in their content, be they Roman or Venetian. Venetian and Roman dealers borrowed from each other, sometimes using a map without alteration, at other times procuring the copperplate and erasing the original imprint and substituting their own. For this reason, IATO atlases are found with a mixture of Venetian and Roman imprints. The assembly of such collections resulted in the preservation of some maps that would otherwise have perished in their separately issued state. This collection includes the world map of Gastaldi, as engraved by Forlani and published by Duchetti; 3 maps of America (Iceland, St. Domingo and Cuba); 66 of Europe and the Mediterranean (including 30 of Italy and 5 of Greece), Madagascar and Ceylon. 17 maps show cities that are finely detailed and
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