Baroffio,Gaetano (sold)
Litografia de Gaetano Baroffio (fl. c. 1860 - 1876) was a lithographer and map publisher based in Milan. Little is known about Baroffio; a man by that name, who was known to be a provincial delegate and knight of the Austrian Empire, died in 1897 and was renowned as a prominent philanthropist in Milan, but it is unclear if this is the same Gaetano Baroffio who ran the lithographic print shop. As for the business, like many lithographers, it appears to have started out with smaller items like calendrical cards before moving on to book plates and maps.
Previously unknown!. Earliest specific map of Kurdistan.
Carta dell'Armenia, Kurdistan e Lazistán della Russia meridionale e Persia occidentale ecc.
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An unrecorded c. 1875 A. Nodari and A. de Bianchi map of the Kurdistan, Armenia, and the Caucuses. This previously unknown map may be considered the earliest known map of specifically of Kurdistan. It emerged during a period of rising ethnic and cultural division among Kurds and Armenians in the context of persistent Russian expansionism into the Caucuses and towards the Mediterranean, culminating in the Russo-Turkish War (1877 - 1878), the postwar Ottoman drive to assimilate Kurds, and events such as the Hamidian Massacres presaging the Armenian Genocide. (more details)