Bordone, Isolario, Venice, Torresano, 1547, later half vellum

Bordone, Benedetto. Isolario di Benedetto Bordone nel qual si ragiona di tutte l'isole del mondo, con li lor nomi antichi & moderni, historie, favole, & modi del loro vivere, & in qual parte del mare stanno, & in qual parallelo & clima giaciono. Ricoreto, & di nuovo ristampato. Con la gionta del Monte del Oro novamente ritrovato. Con il breve del Papa et gratia & privilegio della illustrissima signoria di Venetia come in quelli appare. Venice: Federico Torresano, 1547

Bordone's atlas of the islands of both Europe and the New World was first printed in 1528; this is the first and only Aldine edition, printed for Federico Torresano. The woodblocks are from the 1534 edition printed by Niccolò Zoppino.

Folio (298 x 207 mm). Roman type, 43 lines plus headline. collation: AA⁴ BB⁶ A-D⁶ E⁴ F² G-M⁶ N⁸: 84 leaves. Title printed in red and black within large woodcut cartouche, woodcut Torresano device on title-page, woodcut maps (including four double-page maps), woodcut initials. (Small stain at head of first few leaves, small repair to a section of the title-page cartouche, small hole at foot of AA2, repaired tear to M6.)

binding: Eighteenth-century half vellum over marbled boards (304 x 217 mm), blue edges. (Board edges slightly rubbed.)

acquisition: Purchased from Kenneth Nebenzahl, Chicago, 1985. references: [not included in UCLA, though there is a copy in their library]; Cataldi Palau 171; Edit16 7064; Mortimer, Harvard Italian 82; Renouard 141/9