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Carta particolare del'mare del Zur che comincia con il capo S. Francesco nel Peru e finisce con il capo S. Lazaro nella nuova Spagnia. |
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FIRST EDITION Dudley’s magnificent chart of the Pacific Coast of Central and South America, from the coast of Columbia and Ecuador in the north to the Bay of Honduras in the south, centered on Panama. The chart shows the Galapogos Islands in the lower left corner and provides a tremendously detailed look at the Pacific Coast of Central and northern South America, along with a description of the prevailing currents.
Decorated with sailing ships, notes on prevailing winds and currents and more stylized calligraphy.
Engraved by Lucini.
Sir Robert Dudley's Dell'Arcano del Mare is the earliest printed sea atlas to cover the entire world, and the first made by an Englishman, and the first to use the Mercator projection. It collects all the naval knowledge of its time. It was first published in Italian at Florence in 1645, then again in 1646 in a three volume folio, and which is remarkable for its inclusion of a proposal for the construction of a navy in five rates which Dudley designed and described. It was reprinted in Florence in a two volume folio in 1661 without the charts of the first edition.
The distinctive Baroque style of Dudley's charts is attributable to the elegant engraving of Antonio Francesco Lucini.
The six-volume work covered navigation, shipbuilding and astronomy , with 130 maps in two volumes . Unlike the vast majority of his contemporaries, Dudley's maps are all his own and were not copied from other mapmakers.
Later map-makers chose not to copy Dudley's style, so it remains unique in the annals of cartography. The engraving by Antonio Francesco Lucini, who stated that he spent 12 years and used 5,000 pounds of copper to produce the plates, is of exceptional quality, as is the calligraphy.
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