Mar 07, 2019 - Sale 2501

Sale 2501 - Lot 266

Price Realized: $ 3,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 5,000
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, 298x202 mm, late 18th-/early 19th-century 1/4 sheep gilt, spine and cover edges worn, recased, endpapers renewed; marginal dampstaining and soiling, imperfectly washed inscription in lower margin of title, worming in blank upper margins in second half of volume occasionally entering text, not affecting the maps. 19th-century booklabel ("Eyriès") on front pastedown. Venice: Simon Galignani & Girolamo Porro, 1572

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first edition of Porcacchi's popular atlas of the islands of the world. Alden 572/44 (for descriptions of Hispaniola, Cuba, and Mexico City); Phillips Atlases 166; Shirley 127-28; The World Encompassed 83.