Details
PORCACCHI, Tommaso (ca 1530-1585). L'Isole piu famose del mondo. Venice: Georgio Angelieri for the heirs of Simone Galignani, 1590.
2o (298 x 205 mm). Engraved architectural title-page, 49 half-page engraved maps in text (including two world maps) by Girolamo Porro, engraved intials, head- and tail-pieces, printer's device on final leaf (title with library blindstamp). (Without the terminal blank, some light browning, dampstaining and soiling.) Contemporary vellum (worn).
Third edition, much enlarged, of Porcacchi's beautifully illustrated "island book." The first edition of 1572 included only 30 maps. In this edition is added "Descrittione dell'Istria" and "Descrittione dell'isola d'Elandia, isola de Gotti" with another map. It is otherwise nearly the same as the 1575 second edition. Adams P-1906; Alden and Landis 590/54; BM/STC Italian, p.534; Burden The Mapping of America 42; JCB (3) I:324; Sabin 64151; Shirley 127-128.
2o (298 x 205 mm). Engraved architectural title-page, 49 half-page engraved maps in text (including two world maps) by Girolamo Porro, engraved intials, head- and tail-pieces, printer's device on final leaf (title with library blindstamp). (Without the terminal blank, some light browning, dampstaining and soiling.) Contemporary vellum (worn).
Third edition, much enlarged, of Porcacchi's beautifully illustrated "island book." The first edition of 1572 included only 30 maps. In this edition is added "Descrittione dell'Istria" and "Descrittione dell'isola d'Elandia, isola de Gotti" with another map. It is otherwise nearly the same as the 1575 second edition. Adams P-1906; Alden and Landis 590/54; BM/STC Italian, p.534; Burden The Mapping of America 42; JCB (3) I:324; Sabin 64151; Shirley 127-128.
Special notice
This lot has no reserve.