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Porcacchi, Tommaso (c. 1530–1585).
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Description
- L’Isole piu famose del mondo. Venice: Simone Galignani and Girolomo Porro, 1576
Second edition, 3 parts in one volume, small folio (296 x 203mm.), 47 engraved maps in text, woodcut head- and tailpieces, nineteenth-century vellum gilt, title slightly soiled, a few other stains, wormhole as far as I2
Provenance
William Carr, bookplate; G.H. Powell, pecil signature on free endpaper
Literature
Adams P1905; Phillips, Atlases 167; Nordenskiöld Collection 2:187
Catalogue Note
The Isole piu famose was one of the most popular atlases of the late sixteenth century, treating the world as a collection of islands. This second edition has seventeen maps not found in first of 1572. The third part relates to the Americas.