L'isole piu famose del Mondo

by Tomaso Porcacchi

$9,500 · Offered by Martayan Lan

Excellent enlarged (third) edition of one of the most beautifully engraved Italian Isolarios of the sixteenth century. L'isole piu famose was the first with maps engraved on copper; and with the Gastaldi edition of Ptolemy’s Geografia, 1548, it was among the few geographical works of any kind illustrated with engravings. This edition of Porcacchi contains..... More

• Binding: Leather

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