Isolario di Benedetto Bordone nel qual si ragiona di tutte l'isole del mondo, con li lor nomi antichi & moderni, historie, fauole, & modi del loro viuere, & in qual parte del mare stanno, & in qual parallelo & clima giaciono
Isolario by Benedetto Bordone, first published in Venice in 1547 by the publisher Federico Toresano, a illustrated atlas of islands for a general readership of merchants and armchair travellers. The pictures are small woodcut maps, each island drawn with a coastline outline, a compass rose with rhumb lines, and tiny settlements and hills, which a designer could borrow for antique cartographic framing and decorative map borders.
