Lot 119: BOSCHINI, MARCO.

BOSCHINI, MARCO. IL REGNO TUTTO DI CANDIA DELINEATO A PARTE A PARTE. [VENICE], 1651 First edition , folio (335 x 230mm.), engraved title-page, letterpress dedication leaf, allegorical plate showing a miniature map of Crete surmounted by the Lion of St Mark, 61 engraved maps, plans and views (9 folding and including a detailed map of the whole of Crete), eighteenth-century vellum-backed boards, [Atabey 136; Blackmer 171], extremities rubbed

Carlo Tommaso Strozzi 1728, inscription at foot of title-page; Biblioteca Magnani, Bologna, library stamp on title-page (i.e. from the library of Antonio Magnani (1743-1811)

The Venetian artist, merchant and writer Boschini began work on his survey of Crete in 1645, the year that the island was invaded by the Turks (one of the plates depicts the siege of Candia, modern Heraklion, by the Turks).