Apr 02, 2009 - Sale 2175

Sale 2175 - Lot 86

Price Realized: $ 6,720
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 5,000 - $ 7,000
PORCACCHI, TOMMASO. L'Isole piu Famose del Mondo. 30 half-page engraved maps by Girolamo Porro, including 2 world maps and one of North America. [24], 117, [3] pages, including blank b6 and final leaf with printer's device. Folio, 301x208 mm, contemporary limp vellum, backstrip partly detached, with few portions missing; occasional marginal soiling and foxing. Bookplates of Robert Chambers, Jose M. Rodriguez, Otto Orren Fisher, and Albert Parreño. Venice: Simon Galignani & Girolamo Porro, 1572
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first edition of Porcacchi''s popular atlas of the islands of the world. Adams P1904; Alden 572/44 (for accounts of Hispaniola, Cuba, and Mexico City); Phillips Atlases 166; Shirley 127-28; The World Encompassed 83.