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Only Known Example -- Tunis During The Siege

The only known example of the completed state of this important map of Tunis, illustrating the military encampments around the city in great detail.  A proof state exists, pre-dating this information. 

This is apparently the second state of the map, with the imprint Petrus Paulus Palumbus Novarien curabat Romae anno D[o]m[ini] 1574. The map is based on the model engraved by Agostino de Musi, as the author himself underlines in the text in the cartouche: “tratto da un disegno fatto al tempo che Jl Serenissimo Imporator Carlo V lo prese lan[n]o 1535 (taken from a drawing made at the time).

The only known example of the first state of the map can be seen here:  https://www.raremaps.com/gallery/detail/61570sb

The map is extended further to the west, including also part of Algeria and the city of Algiers, well defined with its fortifications.  

The map was first published in 1574 when the new events in Tunis, with the definitive Turkish conquest, aroused a renewed interest manifested also by the vast production of maps and plants.  

Rarity

This is the only known example of the map (identified by Bifolco).  An incomplete proof state was offered by Reiss & Sohn, Catalog 193, #1989 (2019).
 

Reference
Bifolco #155