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MAGINI, Giovanni Antonio (1555-1617). Italia . Bologna: [Clemente Ferroni], 1620 [but 1632].
MAGINI, Giovanni Antonio (1555-1617). Italia . Bologna: [Clemente Ferroni], 1620 [but 1632]. 2° (410 x 283mm). Engraved title by Oliviero Gatto within typographical border, engraved author portrait and 60 (of 61) engraved maps on guards, 57 double-page, bound in differing order to the letterpress table. (Lacks map of the Papal States, block broken and stitching weak, title slightly soiled and spotted, portrait spotted, occasional small isolated spots or stains to maps, the maps of Vicenza and Lucca with small rub marks, map of Patrimonio di S. Pietro torn with loss to lower corner of border, map of Sicilia with 100mm. clean tear repaired on verso.) Contemporary vellum, morocco spine label, sprinkled edges (some staining and soiling, a few small wormholes, inner hinges split). Provenance : Robert More of Linley (d. 1780; bookplate). SECOND EDITION , with portrait of the author dated 1632, of ‘the first atlas of Italy produced by an Italian’ (NMM). Magini's Italia was first issued in 1620; the second and third editions retained the original 1620 date. Magini, tutor to the Gonzaga family and professor of astronomy at Bologna University, had engraved most of the maps by 1613, and when he died the atlas was substantially complete, its publication three years later being supervised by his son Fabio. Eleven of the plates bear the signature of the English engraver, Benjamin Wright who may also have been responsible for other maps. Graesse IV, 336; NMM, Atlases and Cartography III/1, 29; Nordenskiöld II, 137; Philipps 3061; Shirley BL, T.Mag-1a.