Maps of Ireland 83 203 Thomaso Porcacchi (1530–1585) 205 Thomaso Porcacchi (1530– Irlanda 1585) From his L’Isole Pio Famose de Mondo [1572] published Irlanda in Venice in 1572. From his L’Isole Pio Famose de Mondo 150 x 110. Abl P22. (1572) published in Venice in 1590. 150 x 200 Benedetto Bordone (1460-1539) 110. Abl P24. A Map of Ireland Thomas Porcacchi 1530 - 1545 From his Isolario Vol 1, first published in Venice in 1528. This edition 1547. 150 Porcacchi, Thomas, a learned Italian of the sixteenth x 85. Abl P4. € 150 - 200 century, was born at Casliglione Aretino. While resident at Venice in 1559, he assisted in making a collection of all € 200 - 250 the Greek historians, or analyists, from whose works he formed the “Collana Storica Graeca;” or Greek Historical Necklace, divided into twelve rings, to which were added the jewels, or minor authors, serving to illustrate the greater. Porcacchi was likewise editor or translator of Pomponius Mela, Quintus Curtius, and other authors, and published some original works in poetry, history, antiquities and geography. The most valued of these is his “Funeral i antichi di diversi populi, &c.” Venice, 1574, 200 the plates of which are Very fine. He died in 1585.

201 Johannes Honter (1498 –1549) € 200 - 250 A Map of Ireland (1546) From an edition of Polyhistor Pompeii Melae (1585). First published in Basle in 1561. The map of Scotland has been cut off. 88 x 130. Abl P18.

Johannes Honter 1498 - 1549 Born in Braşov (Kronstadt, Brassó), , nowadays Romania, he studied at the University of between 1520 and 1525, graduating with a magister artium title. As the Ottomans approached Vienna in 1529, Honter moved first to , and, in 1530, he registered at the Kraków’s as “Johannes Georgii de Corona, artium magister Viennensis” (Corona is medieval Latin for Braşov). It was in Kraków that he published his first books, a Latin grammar and cosmography manual. Honter is best known for his geographic and cartographic publishing activity, as well as for implementing the Lutheran reform in Transylvania.

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202 Giovanni Camocio (1501-1575) Irlanda [C1575]. From the re-issued edition by Bertelli. The re-issue is distinguished by the addition of 83 (lower right). Abl P21.

Giovanni Francesco Camocio (1501 - 1575) Giovanni Francesco Camocio was active as map publisher in Venice between 1558 and 1575. He was one of the most important mapmakers of the Lafreri-school. During the short period between the publication of Sebastian Münster’s Geographia (1540) in , and Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (1570) in , Italy was the most important place of map production in Europe. The output in Rome and Venice was no less than 660 different maps of the world, which were based mostly on large woodcut maps. These Italian copper engraved maps were used, among others, by Mercator and Ortelius as templates. The 204 Thomaso Porcacchi (1530–1585) 206 Thomaso Porcacchi (1530–1585) individual maps of different formats were mostly compiled at the request of the buyer, and Irlanda Irlanda bound by expanding the margin of the smaller maps. For the resulting bound collection of maps, From his L’Isole Pio Famose de Mondo published in Venice in 1576. 150 x 110. Abl P23. From his L’Isole Pio Famose de Mondo (1572) published in Venice in 1572. 150 x 110. Abl the name Lafreri-Atlas has established. P25. € 150 - 200 € 500 - 700 € 0 - 0 The R.S.J.Clarke Collection of Cartography 15th December 2015