Details

Subject(s)

• Islands—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• America—Early accounts to 1600 [Browse]

Former owner

• Kane, Grenville, 1854-1943 [Browse]
• Free Library of Philadelphia. Map Division [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• World maps—1534 [Browse]
• Maps—North America—1534 [Browse]

Notes

• Colophon: Impresse in Vinegia per Nicolo d'Aristotile, detto Zoppino, nel mese di giugno, del M.D.XXXIIII.
• Title in red and black within ornamental border.
• First published, Venice, 1528, under title: Libro di Benedetto Bordone. Nel qual si ragiona de tutte l'isole del mondo ...
• Maps include double-page world map, the second to be drawn on an oval projection (21 x 36 cm.), on leaves preceding leaf , and a map of the North American continent on verso of leaf 6 (8 x 14 cm.)
• Historic Maps copy has colophon: Impresse in Vinegia per Nicolo d'Aristotile, detto Zoppino, nel mese di Giugno, del M.D.XXVIII.
• Historic Maps copy is mixed copy with title page and first gathering from second edition; the colophon is dated 1528 and the collation is that of the first edition.
• Historic Maps copy contains contemporary marginalia.

Binding note

ExKa copy in brown goatskin ruled in gold and blind.

Provenance

• ExKa copy has bookplate of Grenville Kane.
• Historic Maps copy has bookplate of Map Division of Free Library of Philadelphia.

Source acquisition

Historic Maps copy acquired with matching funds provided by the Program in Hellenic Studies with the support of the Stanley J. Seeger Hellenic Fund; 2003.

References

• Shirley, R.W. Mapping of the world 50
• Burden, P.D. Mapping of North America 8

LCCN

45046530

OCLC

8990487