Lot 235: BORDONE, BENEDETTO.

ISOLARIO... NEL QUAL SI RAGIONA DI TUTTE L'ISOLE DEL MONDO. VENICE: FRANCESCO DI LENO, [1540]

Small folio (295 x 200mm.), title printed within elaborate woodcut border, 7 double-page maps (including a world map), 104 maps in the text and one diagram, all woodcut, later carta rustica, one page with annotations in a contemporary hand, some light staining, map of Cyprus browned

LITERATURE

Adams 2483; Phillips, Atlases 165; edition not in Nordenskiöld collection, but cf. 28

NOTE

Besides the oval world map (Shirley 59), eleven of the maps relate to the Americas. Bordone's Isolario is in the tradition of the Mediterranean island book, with coverage expanded to included the world considered as a series of islands.