Battista, Gio. & Fratelli, Giorgio Galignani "Nuova Descrittione Dell'Isole Britannice"

Battista, Gio. & Fratelli, Giorgio Galignani "Nuova Descrittione Dell'Isole Britannice"

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Gio. Battista & Giorgio Galignani Fratelli. "Nuova Descrittione Dell'Isole Britannice". (England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland).    

From Geografia cioe Descrittione Universale della Terra. 

Venice: Gio. Battista & Giorgio Galignani Fratelli. 1598. Copper engraving 5 1/2 x 7. Sheet 11 5/8 x 8. Hand color. Very good condition.  

Born in Padua and educated in Bologna, Giovanni Antonio Magini (1555-1617) was a mathematician, cartographer and astronomer. In 1596 in Cologne he published a Latin translation of Ptolemy's Geographia.  This page is from the first edition of Magini's work in Italian, translated by Leonardo Cernotti and published in Venice by the Galignani Brothers.