Raccolta di le più illustri et famose città di tutto il mondo/
Publisher: [s.n.]
Published: 1579
Place of publication: Venice
Language: lat
Number of pages: 142
Subjects: Cities and towns; Maps; Early works to 1800; Pictorial works; Renaissance Cities and towns
Notes: Braun & Hogenberg's Civitates orbis terrarum (Cologne, 1572-1617) is the main source for the present work. Limited use was made of 4 additional works: De' disegni delle piu illustri citta & fortezze del mondo / Giulio Ballino (Venice, 1569); La cosmographie universelle de tout le monde / Francois de Belle-Forest; Theatrum urbium italicarum / Petrus Bertellius (Venice, 1599); Cosmographiae universalis libri V / Sebastian Münster (Basel, 1572). See Seifert, p. [23].

Of views that are signed, most are by Francesco Valesio. Five are by Martin Rota (Algiers, Constantinople, Lepanto, Rhodes, Venice). The views of Algiers, Constantinople and Rhodes are dated 1572. Seifert reports that the signature is lacking in many impressions of the view of Constantinople.

The views are printed two at a time, side by side on a sheet, which is then folded with another to make a gathering of 4. Thus the first 2 views of a gathering appear on the versos of their leaves and the last 2 on the rectos.

Seifert, T. Raccolta di le più illustri et famose città di tutto il mondo.

Title leaf in Italian, legends of prints in Latin.

Handwritten index on lining papers by previous owner.