mappamondo di fra mauro (17 Ergebnisse)

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leather. Zustand: Good. Oversized hardcover quarter bound in black leather with red title piece and gilt bands to spine. Light green marbled paper sides. Text in Italian, 164pp, fold-out map (the first substantial study and reproduction of Fra Mauro's famous Mappa mundi, considered the supreme medieval map of the world and the "greatest memorial of medieval cartography") and illustrated plate at rear of book, both with minor foxing only. Piece of spine head strip is missing, spine sides are split, board edges and corners are bumped and papers sides are marked and scuffed. Internal pages are lightly foxed. The text remains clean and clear throughout. AD. Used.

Folio (237 x 380 mm). 164 pp. With an engraved plate; folding engraved map in lower cover pocket. Modern red quarter morocco, title gilt to spine. Marbled endpapers. The first substantial study and reproduction of Fra Mauro's famous mappa mundi, considered the supreme medieval map of the world and the "greatest memorial of medieval cartography" (Almagià). The most detailed representation of the world ever seen when it was produced around 1450, it remains one of the most important works in the history of cartography, marking the new embrace of scientific method which placed accuracy ahead of religious or traditional beliefs. Strikingly, it is oriented with south at the top, recalling the Arab tradition and more specifically al-Idrisi's famous 12th century world map, copies of which Fra Mauro may have known. Europe is shown at the bottom, with Arabia (not Jerusalem) at the centre and America as yet missing. Fra Mauro incorporated "the discoveries of Marco Polo and the Portuguese", also showing "many countries later known, which the learned monk doubtless shaped after ideas gathered from the oral narratives of occasional travellers" (Müller). He was able, by personal intercourse, to gather additional information from Nicolo de' Conti, who had returned from the east in 1440, and his work is also of special interest for showing that, at least forty years before the Portuguese reached India, Arab sailing directions covering the east coast of Africa, India, and the seas beyond to the vicinity of Sumatra, were available in western Europe. - Placido Zurla's handsome work, the earliest study of the map, was the first to include a reproduction of it in book form. Zurla (1769-1834) had unique insight into Mauro's monumental achievement, as he served as librarian to the same Camaldolese order as the geographer and so had access to the original map itself. - Occasional foxing, mainly confined to margins, a little stronger in the title-page. An untrimmed, wide-margined copy preserving the deckle edges; the folding map reproduction in loosely inserted in a custom-made lower cover pouch. - Cicogna 3323. Cf. A. Müller, Venice. Her Art-Treasures and Historical Associations. A Guide to the City (Venice 1873), p. 113; R. Almagià, Monumenta cartographica vaticana, vol. 1 (Città del Vaticano, 1944).

Zustand: New. In.

The first substantial study and reproduction of Fra Mauro's famous Mappa mundi, considered the supreme medieval map of the world and the "greatest memorial of medieval cartography" (Almagià). The most detailed representation of the world ever seen when it was produced around 1450, it remains one of the most important works in the history of cartography, marking the new embrace of scientific method that placed accuracy ahead of religious or traditional beliefs. Strikingly, it is oriented with south at the top, recalling the Arab tradition and more specifically al-Idrisi's famous 12th century world map, which Fra Mauro may have known from copies. Europe is shown at the foot, with Arabia (not Jerusalem) at the centre and America still unknown. Placido Zurla's handsome work, the earliest study of the map, was the first to include a reproduction of it in book form. Zurla (1769-1834) had unique insight into Mauro's monumental achievement, as he served as librarian to the same Camaldolese order as the geographer and so had access to the original map itself.Binding a little worn around the edges and with some small stains on the front board, some minor foxing and some minor stains on a few pages and the title-page. Otherwise in very good condition.l Cicogna 3323; cf. A. Müller, Venice: her art-treasures and historical associations (1873), p. 113; R. Almagià, Monumenta cartographica vaticana, vol. 1 (1944). Contemporary tree calf, brown morroco spine label with title in gold, marbled endpapers. With a full-page engraving and a folding engraved fascimile of Fra Mauro's famous Mappa mundi. Pages: 164 pp.

Engraved map, 394 x 404 mm. Framed. Rare, early 19th century Italian engraved facsimile of the greatest medieval map of the world: the famous world map made around 1450 by Fra Mauro, "considered the greatest memorial of medieval cartography" (Almagià). At the time it was the most detailed representation of the world ever produced, and it remains one of the most important works in the history of cartography, marking the new embrace of scientific method which placed accuracy ahead of religious or traditional beliefs. Strikingly, it is oriented with south at the top, recalling the Arab tradition and more specifically al-Idrisi's famous 12th century world map, copies of which Fra Mauro may have known: Europe is shown at the bottom, and Africa and Asia dominate the image, with Arabia (not Jerusalem) at the centre and America as yet missing. Fra Mauro incorporated "the discoveries of Marco Polo and the Portuguese", also showing "many countries later known, which the learned monk doubtless shaped after ideas gathered from the oral narratives of occasional travellers" (Müller). Much of the map's novel information was lost to early modern cartographers when printed Ptolemy atlases proliferated in the final decades of the 15th century, replacing the manuscript mappamundi tradition. - Today the original Fra Mauro Map, drawn on vellum, is held by the Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana in Venice and shown at the Museo Correr. An impressive manuscript facsimile, now in the British Library, was prepared in 1804 by the British antiquarian William Frazer; a large engraving was made in Paris in 1849, and in 1869 the Venetian bookseller Münster produced the first photographic reproduction. The present edition of the map was issued with Placido Zurla's book "Il Mappamondo di Fra Mauro Camaldolese" (1806), the first study of Fra Mauro's map ever published and indeed the only substantial early work on the map. (Later, Zurla would also include the engraving in his 1818 study "Di Marco Polo e degli altri viaggiatori veneziani più illustri dissertazioni"). Rarely encountered on the market, this is at the same time a very early example of world map facsimiles in general. - A repaired tear to the left edge, touching the engraved border, otherwise in perfect condition. - OCLC 163267775. For Zurla's book cf. Cicogna 3323. For the mappamundi cf. A. Müller, Venice. Her Art-Treasures and Historical Associations. A Guide to the City (Venice 1873), p. 113; R. Almagià, Monumenta cartographica vaticana, vol. 1 (Città del Vaticano, 1944); P. Falchetta, Storia del Mappamondo di Fra' Mauro (Rimini, 2016).

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A life-sized, hand-coloured photograph of the famous world map made around 1450 by Fra Mauro, the greatest medieval map of the world and the largest surviving European map of such an early date: an astonishing accomplishment of art history, cartography and photography. Perhaps the largest photograph ever made at the time, the "Naya Fra Mauro" belongs to a class of colossal early photographs that includes Eadweard Muybridge's 13-sheet panorama of San Francisco (1878) - though each sheet measured only about 46 x 55 cm - and George R. Lawrence's photograph of the Alton Limited on a 244 x 137 cm glass plate (1899). It also appears to be the first large-format map produced photographically.Fra Mauro's map is "considered the greatest memorial of medieval cartography" (Almagià). Containing hundreds of detailed illustrations and some 3000 descriptive texts, it was the most detailed repres-entation of the world so far produced. It remains one of the most important works in the history of cartography, marking the end of Bible-based geography in Europe and the new embrace of more scientific methods that placed accuracy ahead of religious or traditional beliefs. Strikingly, it is oriented with south at the top, recalling the Arabic tradition and more specifically al-Idrisi's famous 12th century world map, copies of which Fra Mauro may have known: Europe is shown at the foot, and Africa and Asia dominate the image, with Arabia (not Jerusalem) at the centre. Fra Mauro incorporated "the discoveries of Marco Polo and the Portuguese" as well as "many countries later known, which the learned monk doubtless shaped after ideas gathered from the oral narratives of occasional travellers" (Müller). Much of the map's novel information was lost to early modern cartographers when printed Ptolemy atlases proliferated in the final decades of the 15th century, replacing the manuscript mappa mundi tradition.Today the original Fra Mauro Map, drawn on vellum, is held by the Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana in Venice and shown at the Museo Correr. The British antiquarian William Frazer prepared an impressive manuscript facsimile in 1804, now in the British Library; a large engraving was made in Paris in 1849, and in 1869 the Venetian bookseller Münster produced the first photographic reproduction, albeit at a much smaller scale, measuring a mere 62 × 68 cm. Carlo Naya's monumental Fra Mauro photograph renders the map in its full original size. Although it is mentioned in a number of books on early Italian photography, it was always extremely rare: the only photographic copies of the map ever to have surfaced in the trade were that of Münster (lot 1581 at the 1884 sale of the library of Henry C. Murphy, U.S. ambassador to the Netherlands under Lincoln) and the more common four-print photofacsimile published in 1879 by Ongania (E. P. Goldschmidt, cat. 22, London 1930, lot 32). By contrast, Naya's magnum opus was never sold except through his own concern. The Royal Geographical Society was presented with a specimen in 1873 (the gift of John Benjamin Heath, once Governor of the Bank of England), and the British Library holds another, as does the Marciana (all uncoloured). National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth, has a very fragile and faded example, cut into 16 sheets and mounted on modern paperboard.Carlo Naya (1816-82) was an Italian photographer known for his fine views of Venice. He settled there in 1856, opening a photo studio that catered to "grand tourists" who wished to take home mementoes of the city's spectacular art and architecture. His mappa mundi photograph was prepared around 1871 under the supervision of the Venice-based English historical scholar Rawdon Brown (1806-83), a friend of Ruskin's. Naya exhibited his photograph at the 1873 World's Fair in Vienna, winning a medal for it. In the 1880s the Nayas were still advertising the map, the pride of the company, as a "fac-simile of the Planisphere of Fra Mauro A.D. 1459, the largest photograph hitherto made (a square 7 ft. 4 inch)". It was priced at a stupendous 200 francs. After Naya's death, his wife and then her second husband continued his studio for three and a half decades.With ink stamps of the publisher Osvaldo Böhm on the back of the photograph, who bought most of Naya's archive when the family closed the shop in 1918. Later the photograph was part of the collection of Dr. Edward Luther Stevenson (1858-1944), one of the most important scholars of early cartography active at the end of the 19th and the first half of the 20th century. Stevenson was responsible for numerous carto-bibliographic books, including the first translation of Ptolemy into English, as well as a series of impressive facsimile maps. Stevenson, who viewed reproductions as integral to the study of early cartography, committed himself to building an unparalleled collection of photographs of early maps and globes. Much of his collection was donated to Yale University after his death, but the present item comes from a large corpus of photos, manuscripts and related material retained by the family. In very good condition.l Almagià, Monumenta cartographica vaticana, vol. 1 (1944); Becchetti, Fotografi e fotografia in Italia 1839-1880 (1978), p. 124; Falchetta, Storia del Mappamondo di Fra' Mauro (2016); Müller, Venice: her art-treasures and historical associations: a guide to the city (1873) p. 113; Zannier, Venice: the Naya collection (1981). Mounted and framed. Hand-coloured photograph, ca. 223 × 223 cm.

8°. 428 S., Pappband (sehr gut erhalten) (=Beiträge zur Philosophie : Neue Folge) Die Arbeit zielt auf eine Lektüre der berühmten Mappamondo' Fra Mauros (um 1450), die auf deren diskursiven Charakter abhebt und die Strategien und Kriterien der jeweiligen Autoritätsevaluation und der damit einhergehenden Weltbildgewinnung zu rekonstruieren versucht. Ohne kartographisch einem paradigmatischen Weltbild verpflichtet zu sein, katalogisiert Fra Mauro immer wieder eine Vielzahl alternativer Deutungsmöglichkeiten. Damit schafft der Kartograph einen diskursiven Kartenraum, der die neue Welt noch nicht festlegt. Zugleich wird der Übergang der kartographischen Erfassung der Welt in einem Moment beschrieben, in dem verschiedene Betrachtungsweisen und deren weltbildliche Hintergründe noch unentschieden von der Empirie in ihrem Geltungshorizont gleichberechtigt auftreten und undogmatisch dargestellt werden. Dass dahinter seitens Fra Mauros eine unausgesprochene philosophische Prämisse steht: Dies herauszuarbeiten ist das Anliegen der Arbeit, die insofern eine wirklich neue Dimension der Betrachtung auf die Mappamondo' und ihre weltbildlichen Hintergründe eröffnet.

Zustand: Sehr gut. Old (probably original) wrappers, folio size, 164 pp., protrait on title, large folding map showing the famous 15th map from the library of S Michele di Murano, Venice, plus an additional plate giving illlustrated explanations of the map. Last plate with small piece lacking (old paper default, wide outside printed area), first a last leaves with very small dogears, completly uncut and very fresh copy. Never bound so never cut down - very large margins. Scarce original (and only edition) on this most famous world map of the 15th century - beautiful large format book on excellent paper. Sprache: Italienisch Gewicht in Gramm: 1050.

Venezia, 1806, in-folio (cm. 37 x 26) brossura coeva d'attesa con titoli manoscritti al dorso, pp. 164, grande calcografia circolare al frontespizio con ritratto a mezzo busto di Fra Mauro e, in fine, una grande tavola ripiegata ?Abbozzo del Mappamondo di fra Mauro? (cm. 42 x 46) e una tavola calcografica a piena pagina (?Saggio di caratteri e disegni del Mappamondo di Fra Mauro?). Si tratta dela prima discussione e pubblicazione della Mappa mundi di Fra Mauro (1450), la summa della cartografia medievale e, storicamente parlando, una dei più importanti planisferi mai realizzati. Zurla ebbe accesso all'originale (conservato nella Biblioteca di S. Michele di Murano a Venezia) per realizzare questa bella edizione. Difetti alla brossura (strappi e mancanze riparati al dorso); all'interno molto buono, con solo lievissime e sporadiche fioriture. Copia in barbe, con margini amplissimi.

Hardcover. Zustand: very good. Di Marco Polo e Degli Altri Viaggiatori Veneziani piu Illustri Dissertazioni del P. AB. D. Placido Zurla con appendice sulle antiche mappe idro-geografiche lavorate in Venezia. . MARCO POLO, Placido ZURLA (1769-1834). Venice: Go Tipi Picottiani, 1818. Two volumes in one book, quarto, with three (of four) folding maps; Vol. I: VIII, 391 pp., vol II: 408 pp. (three maps). The first "modern" edition of Marco Polo, the inspiration for all explorers towards the east. Cardinal Placido Zurla, O.S.B. Cam., (April 2, 1769 29 October 1834) was an Italian Camaldolese monk and prelate, who was Cardinal Vicar of Rome and writer on medieval geography. Zurla was born at Legnago, Veneto of noble parents and christened Giacinto (Hyacinth). At the age of eighteen Zurla entered the Camaldolese Monastery of St. Michael, situated on the island of Murano in the Venetian Lagoon. When he entered the novitiate of the monastery, he took the name Placid. There he found a lifelong friend in Mauro Cappellari (afterwards Pope Gregory XVI), then a young monk of his own age. He became Lector in philosophy and theology, and in 1802 published a theological textbook. As librarian, his attention was attracted by the map of the world executed between 1457 and 1459 in that same monastery by the famous Camaldolese cartographer Fra Mauro. In 1806 Zurla published an account of it entitled Il Mappamondo di Fra Mauro. This led to further studies on early travelers, of which the most important result was the work, "Di Marco Polo e degli altri viaggiatori veneziano" (2 volumes, Venice, 181819). In 1809 Zurla was elected a Definitor of his Congregation and given the title of Abbot. The next year the monastery was suppressed by order of Napoleon I, but the monks kept up their college dressed as secular priests. Of this institution Zurla acted as Rector and Cappellari as Lector of philosophy until its complete dissolution in 1814. From that year he taught theology at the Patriarchal Seminary of Venice till 1821, when he moved to Rome and resumed the white habit of St. Romuald at the Monastery of St. Gregory the Great. By that time, Cappellari was prior of that community. Pope Pius VII named Zurla as a consultor to various congregations and Prefect of Studies at the Pontifical Urban College. in 1821 he received the cardinal's hat, and in the following year the titular see of Archbishop of Edessa. He served as Cardinal Vicar to Pope Leo XII and his two successors, and took an active interest in the organization of the Roman seminary, the reform of criminal tribunals, the delimitation of Roman parishes, and the affairs of the many Sacred Congregations of which he was a member. Cardinal Zurla was greatly loved by his friends, but his zeal for the reform of abuses made him some enemies in Rome. He died at Palermo in 1834.

Firenze, Stabilimento di Giuseppe Civelli, 1869, in-8, br. editoriale (copertine piuttosto danneggiate, volume diviso in due blocchi), pp. [4], 560. Con 5 tavole f.t. (4 ripiegate) fra le quali una grande "Abissinia riprodotta nelle identiche dimensioni dal mappamondo di Fra' Mauro" in cromolitografia. Dall'indice segnaliamo: Elia Lombardini "Memoria geografico-storica sulle condizioni idrauliche della pianura subappennina fra l'Enza e il Panaro, sul grande estuario adriatico, sui fiumi che vi confluiscono, e gli ultimi tronchi del Po", Giovanni Beltrame "Grammatica della lingua denka (continuazione e fine), Gaetano Branca "I viaggiatori italiani del nostro secolo (continuazione e fine)", ecc., ecc.

In 8, pp. 560 con 1 tav. f.t. piu' volte rip. in fineÂraff. la riproduzione dell'Abissinia tratta dal mappamondo di Fra Mauro eÂ6 tavv. f.t. piu' volte rip. raff. ad esempioÂl'applicazione del sistema di trazione funicolare sul piano inclinato del versante nord nel Moncenisio; la tavola di trascrizione per la dimostrazione del suo sistema; la carta idrografica dell'Italia settentrionale; la carta delle antiche e odierne foci del Po; la piccola carta della contea Beltrame nello stato del Minnesota. Br. ed. PrincipaliÂargomenti: Discorso informativo del Presidente Negri ed esposizione del socio Agudio del sistema di trazione funicolare del Cenisio; Esposizione del sistema di trascrizione dei nomi geografici; Memoria sulle condizioni idrauliche della pianura subappennina fra l'Enza e il Panaro, sul grande estuario adriatico, sui fiumi che vi confluiscono e gli ultimi tronchi del Po; Grammatica della lingua Denka; Notizia sulla straordinaria piena del Lago Maggiore; Spedizione di Baker nell'Africa equatoriale; Contea Beltrame nello stato di Minnesota; La strada ferrata del Pacifico; Scoperta della foce del fiume Limpopo nell'Africa meridionale; ecc. ITA.