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[T-O MAP] -- FORESTI BERGOMENSIS, Jacobus Philippus (1434-1520). Supplementum supplementi chronicarum. Venice: Rusconi, 1513.
2° (302 x 204 mm). Title printed in red and black, with the first word in decorative interlocking caps, with woodcut vignette and seven-part woodcut border, numerous text woodcuts, woodcut initials, printer's device at end. (Some light browning and staining.) Modern vellum.
Later version of the so called T-O map (86 x 131 mm) representing the whole world. It appeared in print for the first time in 1472. It originated in the 5th century B.C., and was perpetuated, in a Christianized version, in manuscripts of the Etymologiae from the 8th century. In this basic type the disc of the world is divided into three zones separated by a T-shaped Mediterreanean Sea, with Asia uppermost, and Europe and Africa in the two lower sections, the whole circumscribed by the world ocean. Fourth edition of this history of the world, containing an account of the discovery of America, under the year 1493, on fol. 328v. The woodcuts appeared in previous editions, see Mortimer Italian 195. Adams F-750; Essling 349; Sabin 25086; see Campbell Earliest Maps, 77; see Shirley 1.
2° (302 x 204 mm). Title printed in red and black, with the first word in decorative interlocking caps, with woodcut vignette and seven-part woodcut border, numerous text woodcuts, woodcut initials, printer's device at end. (Some light browning and staining.) Modern vellum.
Later version of the so called T-O map (86 x 131 mm) representing the whole world. It appeared in print for the first time in 1472. It originated in the 5th century B.C., and was perpetuated, in a Christianized version, in manuscripts of the Etymologiae from the 8th century. In this basic type the disc of the world is divided into three zones separated by a T-shaped Mediterreanean Sea, with Asia uppermost, and Europe and Africa in the two lower sections, the whole circumscribed by the world ocean. Fourth edition of this history of the world, containing an account of the discovery of America, under the year 1493, on fol. 328v. The woodcuts appeared in previous editions, see Mortimer Italian 195. Adams F-750; Essling 349; Sabin 25086; see Campbell Earliest Maps, 77; see Shirley 1.