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BORDONE, Benedetto. Libro di Benedetto Bordone nel qual si ragiona de tutte l'isole del mondo. Venice: Nicolò d'Aristotile detto Zoppino, 1528.
2° (300 x 200mm). Title printed in red and black within a woodcut architectural border, woodcut initials, diagram of the world, 4 double-page maps of the World, Venice, Mediterranean and the Archipelago, 4 smaller double-page maps of Sicily, Crete, Cyprus and Euboea, 103 small woodcut maps in the text. (Some light spotting, margins stained, several outer margins neatly restored, map of the Archipelago shaved with slight loss.) Nineteenth century calf-backed boards (slightly rubbed). FIRST EDITION. Sabin 6417; Phillips 162.
2° (300 x 200mm). Title printed in red and black within a woodcut architectural border, woodcut initials, diagram of the world, 4 double-page maps of the World, Venice, Mediterranean and the Archipelago, 4 smaller double-page maps of Sicily, Crete, Cyprus and Euboea, 103 small woodcut maps in the text. (Some light spotting, margins stained, several outer margins neatly restored, map of the Archipelago shaved with slight loss.) Nineteenth century calf-backed boards (slightly rubbed). FIRST EDITION. Sabin 6417; Phillips 162.