World.- Porcacchi (Tommaso) L'Isole piu famose del Mondo, fourth edition, engraved architectural title, 48 engraved maps by Girolamo Porro in text, woodcut ornaments and initials, lacking N3 & 4 (pp.149-152), title with a few small ink annotations and small strip of paper pasted over at foot of panel with title, browning in parts, some water-staining to lower margin, small paper flaw hole to O3, contemporary vellum, a little rubbed, lower cover stained, folio, Venice, Heirs of Simon Galignani, 1604. ⁂ Atlas of the islands of the world, with several of the New World including Temistitan (Mexico), Hispaniola, Cuba and Jamaica. It was originally published in 1572 with 30 maps, expanded to 47 in 1576; this fourth edition is the first to include the final map of Istria.
World.- Porcacchi (Tommaso) L'Isole piu famose del Mondo, fourth edition, engraved architectural title, 48 engraved maps by Girolamo Porro in text, woodcut ornaments and initials, lacking N3 & 4 (pp.149-152), title with a few small ink annotations and small strip of paper pasted over at foot of panel with title, browning in parts, some water-staining to lower margin, small paper flaw hole to O3, contemporary vellum, a little rubbed, lower cover stained, folio, Venice, Heirs of Simon Galignani, 1604. ⁂ Atlas of the islands of the world, with several of the New World including Temistitan (Mexico), Hispaniola, Cuba and Jamaica. It was originally published in 1572 with 30 maps, expanded to 47 in 1576; this fourth edition is the first to include the final map of Istria.
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