Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Sales catalogue 502: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![THE EARLIEST ATLAS OF THE MEDITERRANEAN 1477-85 A.D. [4906] BART. DALLI SONETTTI, Isolario. First Eprrion, Black Letter, 37 long lines to a full page, containing 49 remarkable full and double-page woodcut maps of the Islands of the Mediterranean, entirely uncoloured, each faced by the text describing it. 4to. Contemporary Italian Binding of black morocco, gilt and blind-stamped parallel lines on sides, with gilt fleurons at corners, and in centre panel a knot of Arabic work in gold tooling, gilt and gauffered edges. (Venice, Guilielmus, Anima mia, Tridinensis, not before 1477 nor after 1485). (See ILLusrration, Opposite). £650 Hain 2538 and 14890. British Museum Catalogue, Vol. V., p. 410. Proctor 5107. A Magnificent Copy of an exceedingly rare and valuable book, both on account of its being an early specimen of poetry in Italian and as the earliest Atlas of the Mediterranean. The date should be before 1485, as the elaborate cryptogram at the beginning gives the names of the then reigning Doge (Giovanne Mocenigo) whose period was from 1477 to 1485; according to Dibdin (Aedes Althorp. II., No. 1305), the book was published about 1477. Panizzi (Bibliotheca Gren- villiana) thought it appeared from 1478 to 1485. Both may be correct according to the cryptogram. Brunet emphasises the excessive rarity of the book. { Only two copies in U.S.A.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31641295_0010.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
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