Alberti, Leandro. - Lot 201

Alberti, Leandro. Descrittione di tutta Italia ...di F. Leandro Alberti Bolognese. Venezia, Ludovico degli Avanzi, 1568. Bound with: Isole appartenenti alla Italia. Venezia, Ludovico degli Avanzi, 1567 In-4°, contemporary soft ivory vellum, handwritten title on spine. Letterpress mark on title of both volumes. A fine copy. AP This enlarged edition includes 8 double-page maps of the "Islands": Corsica, Sardinia, Sicily, the Tremiti Islands, the Tuscan Archipelago, the Pontine Archipelago and the islands of the Gulf of Naples, and ends with a fine aerial view of Venice. The representation of Corsica belongs to the first printed views. This work was fundamental to the science of cartography that followed.