Description:

FULL TITLE: Neapolitanum Regnum

A detailed map of southern Italy filled with numerous place names, orientated with north to the left. Text on verso.

Publication: Geographiae universae tum veteris, tum novae absolutissimum opus... Auctore eodem Io. Anto. Magino Patavino..., Cologne 1597, Petrus Keschedt.

The map comes from a scarce pirate edition published by Petrus Keschedt in Cologne one year after the publication of Magini's original work. Ortelius informed Magini in November 1597 about this and the publication was stopped till 1608 when a new edition was issued by Keschedt. Although the map is based on Magini's 1596 Geographiae it is in fact a new plate. The Magini's 1596 edition of Geographiae was the first reduced size version of Mercator's atlas. This is the second.

A hole in the the area of Sicily has been repaired.

Conditon: GG

Cartographer: Magini

Date: 1597

Technique: Copper Engraving

Colour: Uncoloured

Width (cms) x Height (cms): 17.2 x 12.5

Ref: JJB0551