PORCACCHI, Thomaso. L'isole piu famose del mondo ... intagliate da Girolamo Porro. Padua: Paolo & Francesco Galignani, 1620.

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PORCACCHI, Thomaso. L'isole piu famose del mondo ... intagliate da Girolamo Porro. Padua: Paolo & Francesco Galignani, 1620.

2° (295 x 210mm). Engraved title and 48 half-page maps and views by Porro inset in the text, woodcut decorations. (Small repaired hole in final leaf with slight loss of text, worming in leaves M3 to end, occasional browning.) Contemporary blind-stamped sheep (head of spine chipped, upper joint split, later endpapers, stitching weak on first three gatherings).

Phillips, Atlases 169; Sabin 64152; Nordenskiöld Collection 2, 191; Palau 232896; Shirley 127-128.

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