(SAVONAROLA Raffaello [pseud.: Alphons Lasor a Varea]), Universus terrarum orbis scriptorum calamo delineatus:

Universus terrarum orbis scriptorum calamo delineatus:

hoc est auctorum fere' omnium, qui de Europæ, Asiae, Africa, & Ameriae regnis .... quovis tempore, & qualibet lingua scripsererunt, cvm anno, loco, et forma editionis eorum uberrimus elenchus .... totam veterem, & novam geographiam ordine litterarum dispositam, ... Studio, et labore ... T. 2nd (of 2). Patavii (Padua) 1713 (1st ed.). Ex Typographia olim Frambotti, nunc Jo: Baptistae Conzatti. (35.5 x 24 cm), f. [2], pp. 687, [1], 230 copperplate engravings in the text (city views, plans, maps), 20 copperplate engravings on separate spread of plates (city views and others), 62 woodcuts in the text (figures in regional costumes, including 4 city views), plates, period perg. binding.
(Estr. T. 21). First edition of the second volume of the geographic, historical and religious dictionary of the world with unusually extensive illustrative material. It is noteworthy that the engravings included in the work were engraved at least a century earlier. The author includes textual information about Poland, as well as a map of Poland, an image of a Polish nobleman, views of the cities of Szczecin and Wroclaw. Sources for the work included: Le Isole più famose del Mondo by Tomaso Porcacchi, 1572; Giovanni Antonio Magini's edition of Ptolemy's Geography, 1596; Raccolta di le piu ilustrri et famose Citta di Tutto il Mondo by Nicolo Valegio [ca. 1595], and Viaggi a Costantinopoli by Giuseppe Rosaccio, 1598. Savonarola, used the pseudonym Alphonsus Lasor a Varea (1680-1748), a monk of the Theatine order who worked in the monastery library in Padua. He was also a professor of Sacred Scripture. The offered work to the work of his life. Title page in red and black. Traces of non-moisture, stamps: "From the collection of Jan Sas Zubrzycki". Unwarranted rubbing and soiling of the binding. Condition almost b. good. B. rare.