Bidspirit auction | Giovanni Antonio Magini


Giovanni Antonio Magini - Giovanni Antonio Magini - Italy by Gio. Ant. Magini given to light by his son Fabio to the Most Serene Ferdinando Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua and Monferrato, etc., 1642. Bologna, impensis ipsius auctoris, 1620 (Bologna, typis Nicolai Tebaldini, 1642). In 2nd. Reprint of the 1620 edition which features the copperplate title page engraved by Oliviero Gatti, contains 61 double geographical plates and 1 plate with the portrait of the author signed by Jerome David and dated 1632, marginal foxing otherwise FRESH AND GENUINE copy, in its contemporary limp parchment .