PORCACCHI, THOMASO

L'Isole piu famose del mondo

      Venice: Simone Galignani and Girolomo Porro,, 1576 Small folio (11 3/4 x 8 in.; 298 x 203 mm). Engraved title, 47 engraved maps in the text, woodcut head- and tailpieces; small dampstain in upper margin of title and first few leaves entering image of title, occasional light marginal spotting or soiling. Contemporary limp vellum; ties gone, soiled and stained. LITERATURE AND REFERENCES Adams P-1905; Alden-Landis 576/35; Phillips, Atlases 167; Sabin 64149 CATALOGUE NOTE One of the most popular atlases of the late sixteenth century, treating the world as a collection of islands. This second edition has seventeen maps not found in the first edition of 1572. The third part (starting on p. 154) deals with the New World. The atlas includes the reduced-size version of Forlani's very important map of North America ! the first of the landmass as a single geographic entity. Other regions shown in some detail include Crete, Cyprus, and many other Greek Islands, Malta, Minorca, Majorca, Ireland, the British Isles, Madagascar, Moluccas, and in the New World, Cuba, Mexico City, Jamaica, and Puerto Rico. .