L'Isole Piu Famose Del Mondo ...
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An attractive island book of finely engraved copperplate maps. Small folio. Three parts in one volume. Engraved architectural and allegorical title, pp.[xxv], pp.202 + 47 half page copperplate engraved maps and plans set in text (light marginal spotting on occasion and light browning), woodcut head- and tail-pieces and initials. Eighteenth-century vellum with title stamped in gilt on spine; minor worm damage, light stains, corners rubbed, lower front joint cracked. Bookplate of Ludovici Belmonte inside front cover. This is the second edition of Tommaso Porcacchi's "Isolario" containing 47 maps of islands and regions of the world, and includes new maps not present in the first edition. The atlas also includes the reduced-size version of Forlani's very important map of North America - the first of the landmass as a single geographic entity - and the first atlas map of North America. Other regions shown, in some detail, include; Crete, Cyprus and many other Greek Islands, Malta, Minorca, Majorca, Ireland, the British Isles, Madagascar, Moluccas, and in the New World, Cuba, Mexico City, Jamaica and Puerto Rico. The maps were delicately engraved by Girolamo Porro and are fine examples of sixteenth-century Italian cartography, here, attractively bound.
region: World Atlases
mapmaker:
T.Porcacchi
place and date of publication:
Venice 1572 -1576
medium and colour:
copperplate, Uncoloured
ref:
26504
size in cms: Sml folio 20x29 Price: £ 7500 |
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