Lot 103: IBERIA - LIGORIO, PIRRO (c.1513/4-1583). Nova totius Hispaniae

IBERIA - LIGORIO, PIRRO (c.1513/4-1583). Nova totius Hispaniae descriptio.Rome: Michele Tramezzino, 1559. Engraved map of Spain and Portugal by Sebastiano di Ré, 401 x 530mm, trimmed with original extended margins. (Some discolouration to centre and upper centre of map.)

A very important map of Spain and Portugal devised by Pirro Ligorio, the highly talented polymath, widely known for his great work on Roman antiquities, Dell' Antichità, and for his altercation with the intemperate Michelangelo. This masterful engraving, by di Ré, elegantly frames the land in a maritime space traversed by rhumb lines. Highly influential and more accurate than Gastaldi's 1544 map of Spain, Ligorio's work became the map of record, copied numerous times by other eminent Italian cartographers. Both maps were printed by Michele Tramezzino. Karrow no.51/9, Tooley:1939 no.529
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