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Carta Prima Generale dell' Asia
by Sir Robert Dudley [cartographer] / Antonio Francesco Lucini [engraver]
- Used
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Paranaque City, Metro Manila, Philippines
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About This Item
EXTREMELY RARE copper engraving, on two sheets joined, in beautifully clean and intact condition - almost impossible to find in such pristine state. A most important chart from 'Dell' Arcano del Mare' [Mystery of the Sea] - one of the six maps that show the Philippines. Published in six huge volumes by Francesco Onofri in Florence. SECOND state 1661: cartouche shows: 2 o L o with manuscript insertion of XVIII underneath in an old hand. The Map stretches from the Arabian Emirates and Persia through the Indian Ocean and Indochina to the Western Philippines: from Batanes Islands, the Northern tip of Luzon, via Manila to the entire Palawan and the West Philippine Sea including several Shoals and the Paracels. Robert Dudley (1574 - 1649), an Englishman, produced this atlas while in exile in Florence. He likely received some of his information directly from his friend Sir Francis Drake and his in-law Thomas Cavendish. Completed in manuscript form in 1636, he laboured for decades before finally releasing the first edition of this work in 1646 when he was 73 years old. Dudley's atlas is of the utmost importance in the history of European Cartography for several reasons: 1) the first Sea Atlas to cover the entire world (not just Europe). 2) the first atlas to utilize the Mercator Projection on a uniform basis 3) the first to include significant advances in "Great Circle" navigation (shortest circle around the Globe). 4) the first to include winds and currents 5) the first to include magnetic declination. The engraver Lucini took 40 years to prepare and 12 years in seclusion to execute the atlas in a unique Baroque style, using more than 5000 lbs of copper. Reference: not in Quirino; Phillips, Atlases, I:457.100 (state 1); Bayerische Staatsbibliothek: Dudley's 3 manuscript volumes; O.A.W. Dilke and Margaret S. Dilke, "Sir Robert Dudley's Contribution to Cartography," in The Map Collector, no. 19 (June 1982), pp. 10-14 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Dudley_(explorer)
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Details
- Seller
- Gallery of Prints
(PH)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 62970
- Title
- Carta Prima Generale dell' Asia
- Author
- Sir Robert Dudley [cartographer] / Antonio Francesco Lucini [engraver]
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Francesco Onofri in Florence.
- Date Published
- 1661 [1646]
- Size
- 46.8 x 75.7 cm
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Asia, Saudi Arabia, Emirates, India, China, Indochina, Indonesia, Borneo, Sulu, Philippines, Palawan, South China Sea, West Philippine Sea, Paracels, India Orientalis
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Gallery of Prints
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About the Seller
Gallery of Prints
Biblio member since 2018
Paranaque City, Metro Manila
About Gallery of Prints
We are the first and only Gallery in the Philippines, specializing in Antique Prints and Books before 1900, with particular emphasis on the History of the Philippines, i.e. Filipiniana.
Since our establishment in 1995, or 28 years ago, we have grown and become internationally renowned as specialists of historical original printed material about the Philippines, dating back to the 16th Century.
We are offering the connoisseur and collector of art and history of the Philippines and Southeast Asia an unsurpassed inventory of antique prints and maps covering six centuries, a volume and scope that compares favourable with any Gallery in ASEAN or on any other Continent for that matter.
In 1998, we published the first comprehensive compendium of antique prints on the Philippines with the book "The Philippines in the 19th Century", and throughout the years, we added posters, postcards, reproductions, and other individual items intended to showcase the Philippines of the past to a broader audience. These local publications complement our huge range of antique maps, views, and prints on zoology, ornithology, ethnology, anthropology, geography, and other natural sciences.
In 2018, we hosted the IMCoS Symposium accompanied by an Exhibition of those antique maps and prints used by all lecturers in their presentations, and published the book "Insulae Indiae Orientalis" documenting the lectures and exhibition in the Ayala Museum, which - for the first time in more than 100 years - showed 3 original large Murillo de Velarde 1734 maps with the vignettes together with all later editions, among many other rarities.
As with many other international galleries, we also offer ancillary services such as acid free, museum-style conservation matting and framing, Picture Frame Hanging Systems and non-reflective glass, procured from our sister company Rudolf Lietz, Inc., a direct importer, and we sell to other galleries, contractors, interior decorators or DIY individuals as well.
Lastly, the location of the Gallery in a large Shopping Mall is conducive to attracting tourists or business visitors alike, looking for special corporate or individual gifts from a range of products not found elsewhere.
© Rudolf J.H. Lietz, F.R.G.S.
Since our establishment in 1995, or 28 years ago, we have grown and become internationally renowned as specialists of historical original printed material about the Philippines, dating back to the 16th Century.
We are offering the connoisseur and collector of art and history of the Philippines and Southeast Asia an unsurpassed inventory of antique prints and maps covering six centuries, a volume and scope that compares favourable with any Gallery in ASEAN or on any other Continent for that matter.
In 1998, we published the first comprehensive compendium of antique prints on the Philippines with the book "The Philippines in the 19th Century", and throughout the years, we added posters, postcards, reproductions, and other individual items intended to showcase the Philippines of the past to a broader audience. These local publications complement our huge range of antique maps, views, and prints on zoology, ornithology, ethnology, anthropology, geography, and other natural sciences.
In 2018, we hosted the IMCoS Symposium accompanied by an Exhibition of those antique maps and prints used by all lecturers in their presentations, and published the book "Insulae Indiae Orientalis" documenting the lectures and exhibition in the Ayala Museum, which - for the first time in more than 100 years - showed 3 original large Murillo de Velarde 1734 maps with the vignettes together with all later editions, among many other rarities.
As with many other international galleries, we also offer ancillary services such as acid free, museum-style conservation matting and framing, Picture Frame Hanging Systems and non-reflective glass, procured from our sister company Rudolf Lietz, Inc., a direct importer, and we sell to other galleries, contractors, interior decorators or DIY individuals as well.
Lastly, the location of the Gallery in a large Shopping Mall is conducive to attracting tourists or business visitors alike, looking for special corporate or individual gifts from a range of products not found elsewhere.
© Rudolf J.H. Lietz, F.R.G.S.
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