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EARLY EDITION OF TRAMEZINI'S FINE AND RARE MAP OF SCANDINAVIA. TRAMEZINI, MICHAEL. Septemtrionalium Regionum Suetiae, Gothiae, Norvegiae, Daniae et terrarum adiacentium revens exactaq(ue) descriptio. Michaelis Tramezini formis... Venice 1558.

Finely copper engraved map printed on paper, engraved by Jacob Bos. Below cartouche: Jacobus Bussius Belga, in aes incidebat. C. 390x527 mm. Blank on verso. Separate publication. The map has a large figurative cartouche, coat-of-arms, sailing ships and many sea monsters, including a flying turtle. It depicts southern part of Norway and Sweden (up to Uppsala) and the southern part of Finland with Åbo. The map also shows the coast of the Baltic, Polen and Germany down to the Netherlands.
Trimmed to platemark and mounted in new margins, upper part with the word "Septentrio" shaved, a few minor spots, some black soiling to lower right part.

Ginsberg (Scandinavia) #16.0. Separately published. Second state (of 4) engraved by Jacob Bos dated 1558. The first state has the date MDLVI [1556], with only two copies known in France, one in the Bibliotheque Nationale de France and one in the Bibliotheque de la Sorbonne. (Not mentioned in Ginsberg, compare, Bifolco/Ronca "Cartografia e Topografia italiana del XVI secolo" (2018), Tav 246). A third state was published in 1590 and a fourth about 1600.
Fine chart of the Baltic and North Sea regions based upon the first chart of this area made by Cornelis Antonisz in 1543, the nine sheet wall map "Caerte van oostlant". A so called "Lafreri school" map.
"The Scandinavia map of Tramezini and Camocio illustrate the skill and versatitlity of their makers. Even a cursory glance reveals that the content and level of detail put these maps in a different league from any that preceded them. ---- theses maps were intended to convey extensive, accurate geographic information". (Ginsberg, Printed maps of Scandinavia and the Arctic 1482-1601, New York, 2006).

Michele Tramezini (Trammissin), active 1539-62, was a Venetian printer and publisher with two workshops, one in Rome with his older brother Francesco and one in Venice "librar. al segno de la Sibilla". He belonged to the famous "Lafreri School" (after Antonio Lafreri c. 1512-77), a loose grouping of important Italian cartographers, mapmakers, engravers and publishers working in Rome and Venice, from about 1544 to 1585, amongst those were Givovanni Francesco Camocio, Antonio Salamanca, Paolo Forlani and Giacomo Gastaldi.
Jacob Bus, engraver, active 1555-1661, signed himself "Belga".

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6168

Datum:

2019-12-11