Rosaccio, Gioseppe

Teatro Del Cielo, e Della Terra

      Girolamo Righettini, Trevigi (Treviso) 1642 - Language: Italian. Teatro del Cielo e della Terra (in English "Theater of the Sky and the Earth"), was the first work of Gioseppe (or Giuseppe) Rosaccio (1530-1621). The book brings up issues such as earthquakes, the center of the earth, the partitions of the world, the sphere etc., with woodcut maps, smal illustrations and decorations. List of maps: world map ("Della grandezza della Terra, e come da gli antichi, e moderni si a misurata") on title page and p.25. Double-spread map of Europe (pp. 32-33; left half on p.32 located originally up-side-down). Map of England and Ireland (p.38). Double spread map of Spain (pp. 42-3); France (pp. 48-9). Double-spread map of Germany (pp.52-3); Sicily & Sardinia map (p.62); Poland, Lithuania, Severia & Russia (Polonia, Lituania, Liuonia & Rossia, pp. 66-7); Macedonia-Greece (pp. 80-1); Africa ("Seconda parte del Mondo", pp.86-7); Asia ("terza parte del Mondo", pp.92-3); America ("Quarta parte del Mondo", pp.104-5); diagram demonstrating the Christian order of elements and spheres (p.3); "Del Cielo Empireo, Patria celeste, Citt? di Dio, o luogo de Beati", illustration, p.134. List of small illustrations: 'Evropa' (p.34), 'prima region dell' Aria' (p.111), 'secunda region dell' Aria' e suoi effetti' (p.118), 'Della Comete' (p.122). One decorated initial (p.2). Decorative title "Capitoli Principali Che nella presente Opera si contengono" (p.1). Chapter end ornaments: 37, 46 (46's page number printed as 42), 51, 61, 65, 85, 117. Fault descriptions: thin vellum wrapped over text printed-cardboard; tear to head of back-strip (no missing pieces); tears to front and rear pastedowns; mild silver-fish damage to margin of title page and 3 next leaves. Black ink mark to title page. Ink illustrations of miniature hands pointing at text to margins of pp.26-27, 74; ink stains to p.49 (0.5"), 119-20, passes-through to 2 next pp. with damage to text). Black ink short lines to margin of p.58, addition of continuance to map-lines over the gutters on maps at pp.66-7, 80-1, with very precise overwriting of names (pp. 66, 80, 87, 92-3, 104-5) with ink marks passing-through to other sides of paper. [Attributes: Hard Cover]