Benedetto Bordon

Lot 384: BORDONE, BENEDETTO.

Name: BORDONE, BENEDETTO.
Brand: Sotheby's
SKU: jejwew2jfb

Est: £4,000 GBP - £6,000 GBPSold:

Sotheby'sLondon, United KingdomNovember 18, 2004

Item Overview

Description

Isolario. [Venice: Nicolo d'Aristoile, detto Zoppino, 1534]

Condition Note: Second edition, folio (310 x 205mm.), title printed in red and black within woodcut border, 7 double-page maps (including a world map), 104 maps in the text and 1 diagram, all woodcut, seventeenth century calf backed boards, lacking final leaf with colophon, ownership annotation in ink on title, title stained, diagram with annotations, map of Greece shaved at edges, some staining throughout affecting some maps

Artist or Maker

Benedetto Bordon

Literature

Phillips, Atlases, 163; Nordenskiöld Collection 1, 28

Notes

Bordone's Isolario is in the tradition of the Mediterranean island book, with coverage extended to include the world considered as a series of islands.

Auction Details

Natural History, Travel, Atlases and Maps

Sotheby's

November 18, 2004, 12:00 AM EST

34-35 New Bond Street, London, LDN, W1A 2AA, UK

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