Item details: Khalki (N W of Rhodes)/ Alimnia (Episcopia)
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BORDONE, Benedetto
Khalki (N W of Rhodes)/ Alimnia (Episcopia)
Imprint: Venice, 1528
Two maps each 85 x 145 mm., on either side of a page of text, in old wash colour, in good condition.
Benedetto Bordone's 'Libro' is designed like a traditional 'Isolario' of the day, as a collection of maps of islands. This leaf contains a map of Limonia and nearby island which lie north west of Rhodes and on the verso the island of Alimnia. Armstrong in 'Imago Mundi' no. 48 pp. 65-92; Karrow pp. 89-93; Shirley Atlases in the BL T.Bord 1a.
Stock number:8595.