The earlier Italian editions of the popular work entitled ‘Le Relationi Universali’, by Giovanni Botero (1540-1617), contained either the exceedingly rare Giovanni Lorenzo d’Anania map of 1582, or that used for the 1595 edition. For this Venice edition a new set of copperplates was cut. It is an enlarged and distinctively engraved map. The map was engraved by Giuseppe Rosaccio (c.1530-1620) who signed the Asia map in the series. Rosaccio was a geographer and physician from Friuli in the Veneto, Italy. He wrote on many subjects other than geography. Cartographically it is derived from the earlier maps but ultimately that of Abraham Ortelius. Provenance: Juan and Peggy Rada Collection. Burden (1996) 149; not in Nordenskiold; not in Phillips Atlases; not in Shirley atlas in the BL.