Nova Reperta.
Antwerp. View. Uncolored engraving. Images measures 8 1/4" x 10.5". Beautiful impression of the frontispiece to "Nova Reperta", ca. 1596. Johannes Stradanus or van der Straat, (1523-1605) was a Flemish artist but spent most of his life in Florence. Stradanus sent his original drawings of "Nova Reperta" ("New Inventions"), a Renaissance celebration of recent discoveries both scientific and geographical, to Antwerp where they were first engraved and published by Phillipe Galle circa 1600. This edition was republished by Galle's grandson..... More