Giovanni BOTERO
Relationi universali
Perli Bertani|in Venetia [Venice] 1671|16 x 22.80 cm|relié
New edition, after the original published in 1591 and 1593. Illustrated with 4 folding maps by Gioseppe Rosatio, Europe, Asia, America and Africa, on grayed background. The work had numerous reprints in the 17th century.
Contemporary limp vellum binding. Spine with raised bands, Jansenist style. Title in black ink.
Botero's universal geography is a means of evaluating the real power of all states. Botero wrote his Relazioni following his great political work "De la raison d'état" and cannot be understood except in its wake. While the work is a classic universal geography, with a description of all regions of the world then known in the first part, the other parts describe the world
Contemporary limp vellum binding. Spine with raised bands, Jansenist style. Title in black ink.
Botero's universal geography is a means of evaluating the real power of all states. Botero wrote his Relazioni following his great political work "De la raison d'état" and cannot be understood except in its wake. While the work is a classic universal geography, with a description of all regions of the world then known in the first part, the other parts describe the world
€1,500