Lot 34•
BORDONE (BENEDETTO) Isolario... Nel qual si ragiona di tutte l'isole del mondo... ricoreto, & di nuovo ristampato. Con la gionta del Monte del Oro nuovamente ritrovato, Venice, Federico Torresano, 1547
26 June 2019, 13:00 BST
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BORDONE (BENEDETTO)
Isolario... Nel qual si ragiona di tutte l'isole del mondo... ricoreto, & di nuovo ristampato. Con la gionta del Monte del Oro nuovamente ritrovato, title printed in red and black with ornate woodcut border and Torresano's device, 112 woodcut maps (2 full-page and 8 double-page) and one full-page woodcut diagram, all hand-coloured, light dampstain to A1-C6, repair to corner of C3, some leaves on guards, nineteenth century roan-backed cloth, gilt lettered spine with raised bands, rubbed [Phillips, Atlases 163; Sabin 6419; Shirley, British Library T.BORD-1c], folio (306 x 210mm.), Venice, Federico Torresano, 1547
Footnotes
The third edition of the first atlas to be based on contemporary descriptions rather than classical geography, depicting islands in the Mediterranean and all around the world. The large double-page maps are of the world on an oval projection, Europe, the Aegean Sea and Venice, and there are 4 smaller double-page maps of Sicily, Crete, Cyprus and Euboea. Other important maps include an early representation of North America ("Terra de lavoratore", or Labrador, possibly a reference to the slave trade), Mexico City ("Temistitan", prior to its destruction by Cortes), the earliest printed map devoted to Japan, and several of islands in the Caribbean.
Provenance: Stefano Breventano[?] pavese, ownership signature on title (crossed through) and occasional corrections and numerous annotations in the margins (identifying old and new place names and commenting on people and places: "positione della Inghilterra secondo Tolomeo", "voci che s'odono lamentarsi in alcune grotte", "cosa incredibile", "Mayz e quella sorte di grano che chiamiamo noi formento indiano", "corsi ladri", "sardi rubbatori", "sangue di drago che cosa sia e come si faccia", "Isola citharea gia detta Porphirite dalla eccellenza del marmo porfido", "Patmos isola dove San Giovanni scrisse l'Apocalipsi hoggi detta Palmosa"); Bernardus de Paralta, ownership inscription on title.