[Agnese, Battista]: [Clovio, Giulio]:

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ATLAS DE CARLOS V. A beautifully produced facsimile of the celebrated atlas of Charles V. The atlas was produced in 1542 in Venice by the famous cartographer Battista Agnese and illuminated by the renowned Giulio Clovio. The atlas was given by Charles to his son, soon to be Philip II, on his sixteenth birthday. Appropriately enough for the young prince's studies, the maps within portray the entire world with a particular focus on the Mediterranean and the New World. The Americas are shown in considerable detail for the time, with California depicted as a long peninsula but not an island. The original document is held in the John Carter Brown Library (a facsimile bookplate is present on the front pastedown). This is number sixteen from an edition limited to 999 copies, produced by Patrimonio and the Colegio de Valencia in 2007. These were also accompanied by a facsimile of a 1544 atlas of Magellan's voyage and a separate volume of explanatory text, neither of which are present here.

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