Lot 63: BORDONE, BENEDETTO.

BORDONE, BENEDETTO. LIBRO... NEL QUA SI RAGIONA DE TUTTE L'ISOLE DEL MONDO CON LI LOR NOMI ANTICHI & MODERNI, HISTORIE, FAVOLE & MODI DEL LORO VIVERE, & IN QUAL PARTE DEL MARE STANNO, & IN QUEL PARALLELO & CLIMA GIACCIONO . VENICE: NICOLO ZOPPINO, 1528 First edition, folio (287 x 210mm.), title printed in red and black within woodcut border, full-page diagram, 7 double-page maps and 104 maps in the text, all woodcut, a few maps in early hand colour, recent blind-stamped calf, [Nordenskiöld Collection 1, 27; cf. Phillips, Atlases 162; Sabin 6417; Shirley, British Library T.BORD-1a; Shirley, Mapping of the World 59], title repaired and restored (partially in facsimile), oxidisation to colouring

After Bartolommeo dalli Sonetti, the second important isolario or island book. The work is in the tradition of the Mediterranean island book, with coverage expanded to include the whole world as a series of islands. The Adriatic and Greek archipelago are covered in sixty-four maps, many very similar in outline to those of Bartolommeo dalli Sonetti. The most significant map, cartographically speaking, is the double-page world map, held for many years to be the first such use of an oval projection. Besides the oval world map, eleven of the maps relate to the Americas, including the first separate printed maps of North America and South America and individual Caribbean islands. Although the majority of the maps are simple in form, it should be noted that their begetter was an illuminator by training rather than a cartographer. Despite its shortcomings, Bordone's work was practical and popular and saw several editions.