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Book of Islands Facsimile Edition

Isolario

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The Book of Islands—or Isolario—by the author known as Bartolommeo da li Sonetti is a collection of sonnets on navigating the Aegean archipelago with accompanying maps. The author's identity is debated: he may be the mathematician Bartolomeo Zamberti. Guglielmo dal Trino printed the volume in Venice, probably before or in 1486. The forty-nine woodcut navigational sea charts, believed to be the first to be printed, have been delicately hand-colored in the Madrid copy.

We have 1 facsimile edition of the manuscript "Book of Islands": Isolario facsimile edition, published by Vicent Garcia Editores, 2006

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Isolario

Valencia: Vicent Garcia Editores, 2006

  • Limited Edition: 3160 copies
  • Full-size color reproduction of the entire original document, Book of Islands: the facsimile attempts to replicate the look-and-feel and physical features of the original document; pages are trimmed according to the original format; the binding might not be consistent with the current document binding.

The facsimile, printed on specially made laid paper, is contained in a cloth-lined presentation case with gold engraved leather spine.

This edition does not include an accompanying commentary volume. A book in Spanish, "Bibliofilia antigua XII," includes a monograph on the original document, and is sold separately.

Binding

Parchment on wooden board.

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