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Oronce FINE (1494-1555), after. Totius Galliae descriptio...1561

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Oronce FINE (1494-1555), after.
Totius Galliae descriptio cum parte Angliae, Germaniae, Flandriae, Brabantiae, Italiae Romam usque / Orontio F. Delph. autore.
Engraved map.
Venice, 1561 by Zenoi, Domenico, (fl. 1560-1580).
15 1/8" x 20" sheet; 27" x 31 1/2" framed.

The "Lafreri School" represented the first systematic, post-Ptolemaic attempt to map or re-map the known world. While mapmakers had already begun surveying their particular areas, in no other country at the time was there such a range and depth of practitioners. One of the most important consequences of this cartographic renaissance was that it laid the foundations for the regular atlases by Ortelius, De Jode, and Mercator that appeared a generation later. [Tooley (1939) 208].

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