Atlas. PORCACCHI. L'isole piu' famose... Venetian Isolario. PORCACCHI, Tommaso. L?isole più famose del mondo? intagliate da Girolamo Porro con l?aggiunta di molte isole. Venezia, appresso gli heredi di Simon Galignani, 1605 In Folio, 293x195 mm; stiff vellum binding of XVIII century.; gilt title on red morocco label and gilt ornaments on spine. 12 nunmbered leafs (including titlepage), pp. 221. Initial letters with ornaments and woodcut endpieces. Architectonic titlepage engraved on copper and 48 geographic maps engraved on copper in the text. Sign of wear on binding, slight spotting. Good specimen with wide margins.
Rare and important edition, enlarged compared to the first. Here, in fact, there are 48 geographic maps, while in the first one only 31, and two new chapters "Descrittione dell'Istria" and "Descrittione isola d'Elandia, isola de Gotti" are added respect the previous editions. The engravings are by Girolamo Porro and depict the most famous islands: Iceland, the Hebrides and Orkney Islands, Gotland, Ireland, England, Scotland, Holland, Selandie Islands, Mallorca, Menorca, Corsica, Elba, Sardinia, Sicily, Malta, Venice , the archipelago of the Greek islands, Corfu, Echinadi Islands (Curzolari), image of the Battle of Lepanto, Kefalonia, Zakynthos, the Peloponnese (Morea), Cythera (Cerigo), Crete, Karpathos (Karpathos), Rhodes, Santorini, Milos, Naxos (Nicsia), Chio (Scio), Lesbos (Metellino), Constantinople, Lemnos (Lenno), Euboea (Negroponte), Cyprus, map of Mexico City, map of the center and North America (new world), Santo Domingo, Cuba, Jamaica, S. Lorenzo, S. Giovanni (Virgin Islands), Ceylon (Taprobana), the Moluccas islands, Globe, Nautical Globe (nautical map) and Istria. Of particular importance is the illustration of the battle of Lepanto in 1570 (p. 87), Venice, the globe, the map of America and the nautical map of the world. Olschki Choix, 991; Michel, VI, p. 141.
Atlas. PORCACCHI. L'isole piu' famose... Venetian Isolario. PORCACCHI, Tommaso. L?isole più famose del mondo? intagliate da Girolamo Porro con l?aggiunta di molte isole. Venezia, appresso gli heredi di Simon Galignani, 1605 In Folio, 293x195 mm; stiff vellum binding of XVIII century.; gilt title on red morocco label and gilt ornaments on spine. 12 nunmbered leafs (including titlepage), pp. 221. Initial letters with ornaments and woodcut endpieces. Architectonic titlepage engraved on copper and 48 geographic maps engraved on copper in the text. Sign of wear on binding, slight spotting. Good specimen with wide margins.
Rare and important edition, enlarged compared to the first. Here, in fact, there are 48 geographic maps, while in the first one only 31, and two new chapters "Descrittione dell'Istria" and "Descrittione isola d'Elandia, isola de Gotti" are added respect the previous editions. The engravings are by Girolamo Porro and depict the most famous islands: Iceland, the Hebrides and Orkney Islands, Gotland, Ireland, England, Scotland, Holland, Selandie Islands, Mallorca, Menorca, Corsica, Elba, Sardinia, Sicily, Malta, Venice , the archipelago of the Greek islands, Corfu, Echinadi Islands (Curzolari), image of the Battle of Lepanto, Kefalonia, Zakynthos, the Peloponnese (Morea), Cythera (Cerigo), Crete, Karpathos (Karpathos), Rhodes, Santorini, Milos, Naxos (Nicsia), Chio (Scio), Lesbos (Metellino), Constantinople, Lemnos (Lenno), Euboea (Negroponte), Cyprus, map of Mexico City, map of the center and North America (new world), Santo Domingo, Cuba, Jamaica, S. Lorenzo, S. Giovanni (Virgin Islands), Ceylon (Taprobana), the Moluccas islands, Globe, Nautical Globe (nautical map) and Istria. Of particular importance is the illustration of the battle of Lepanto in 1570 (p. 87), Venice, the globe, the map of America and the nautical map of the world. Olschki Choix, 991; Michel, VI, p. 141.
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