Alphonsus Lasor Varea (6 results)

1. Original-Kupferstich auf rückseitig bedrucktem Büttenblatt mit dekorativ abgesetztem Plattenrand auf einer Buchseite, sehr detailreiche Karte, bildliche Darstellung (Plattenrand) ca. 14 x 18 cm, Blattgröße ca. 33 x 21 cm (jeweils Höhe x Breite), sauber und bemerkenswert gut erhalten, sehr selten 2100 gr.

An interesting eighteenth century Italian map of Portugal, based on the much earlier late sixteenth century map by Porcacchi. It shows the country lying east to west. There is text on the reverse of the map. Size: 145 x 195 mm. Copperplate engraving with later hand colour. Good condition.

Condition: Good + overall. A woodblock map within a page of text, published by Lasor a Varea in 1713. The map encompasses China, Persia, India, all of South East Asia, Japan, the Phillipines, Japan, the NW coast of America and a large New Guinea and "Beach Pars contientis Australis" as per Marco Polo, ostensibly the tip of Northern Australia. 6 7/8 x 5 1/8" on a sheet 9x13". B&w as issued, map a light impression with some darker areas (coast of China and Borneo). Text with some light creasing, but good+ overall. A pleasant copy.

First Edition; Folio (355 x 240 mm); 2 vols., titles printed in red and black with printer?s device, half-titles, 499 engraved maps, plans and prospects, most set in the text, eleven additional engraved plates and three leaves bearing twenty-four costume figures. Original pale grey paper boards, glazed paper spines, ms. titling to both spines; boards and spines darkened and discoloured by ingrained dust, joints beginning to split in places but still very firm. Padua : Giovanni Battista Conzatti, Alphonsus Lasor a Varea was the nome-de-plume of Raffaello Savonarola (d. 1748), a close anagram of his name. The Universus terrarum orbis scriptorum . was a historicogeographical and religious dictionary of the world, extensively illustrated with small format illustrations. Interestingly, and remarkably, the maps, plans and prospects that appear were printed from plates engraved at least a hundred years earlier, and some even earlier. The principal sources are Tomaso Porcacchi?s Le Isole più famose del Mondo, 1572, Giovanni Antonio Magini?s edition of Ptolemy?s Geografia, 1596, Nicolo Valegio?s Raccolta di le piu illustri et famose Citta di Tutto il Mondo [ca. 1595] and Giuseppe Rosaccio?s Viaggi a Costantinopoli, 1598. References: Sabin 39133; Shirley, T.LAS-1a.

1. kleiner Original-Kupferstich auf rückseitig bedrucktem Büttenblatt mit dekorativ abgesetztem Plattenrand, bildliche Darstellung (Plattenrand) ca. 9 x 13,5 cm, Blattgröße ca. 13 x 22 cm (jeweils Höhe x Breite), sauber und bemerkenswert gut erhalten, selten 2100 gr.

Padua: Lasor a Varea, 1713. Coloured. 85 x 135mm, set in a larger page of text, overall size 330 x 230 mm. An early plan of Moscow, first published c.1600, based on the Braun & Hogenburg map, with the buildings shown in perspective. On the verso is Magini's map of Russia, also coloured.