Sale 2464 - Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books, December 5, 2017

251  ​c  ​ BALLINO, GIULIO. De Disegni Delle Piu Illustri Citta, Et Fortezze Del Mondo Parte I. Engraved title-page by Nicolo Nelli, dedication leaf, manuscript index in early ink on verso of first map, and 53 mostly double-page engraved maps, city plans, fortifications and battle scenes with Italian letterpress text on versos. 4to, 10 3 / 4 x8 1 / 4 inches, contemporary vellum, gilt morocco spine label; early ink shelf marks on spine, very light general wear; pencil annotations to front pastedown, plan of Comar trimmed to plate and mounted to leaf (as issued), plans of Nettuno and Jerusalem with a small amount of period hand-coloring, plans of Perpignano and Constantinople each with a small tear at centerfold, light intermittent foxing. with: An additional plan of Perpignano by Horatio Marinari, 1642 bound in. Venice: Bolognini Zaltieri, 1569 [10,000/15,000] A wholly attractive copy of this rare and important sixteenth-century Italian atlas of city plans. Zaltieri used the plates of several different engravers throughout the book, many being plans by Paolo Forlani and Domenico Zenoi which first appeared in Forlani’s “Il primo libro delle città, et fortezze principali del mondo” two years prior. The chart of Europe is by Girolamo Olgiato; Mexico City (Timistitano) is the only plan in the atlas of a site in the western hemisphere. The map of Central Europe and a marine chart of Europe by Olgiato are followed by views or battle plans of Venice, Fano, Mirandola, Florence, Siena, Ancient Rome, Modern Rome, Borgo di Roma, Castel Sant’Angelo, Ostia, Nettuno, A Civitella, Vicovaro, Naples, Messina, Genoa, Parma, Piacenza, Milan, Crescentino, Paris, Perpignan, Perpignan (later), Metz, Thionville, Cales, Guines, Antwerp, Gravelines, Augsburg, Frankfurt, Geneva, Gotha, Wittenberg, Vienna, Eger, Gyor, Comar, Gyula, Tokaji, Sziget, Zsaka, Constantinople, The Grand Turk and his army, Jerusalem, Tiberias, Malta (fortification), Malta (Siege), Tripoli, Zerbe, Peñon de Velez de la Gomera, and Mexico City. Cremonini 4; Tooley, “Maps in Italian Atlases of the Sixteenth Century” Imago Mundi 3: 12-47.