Download image:
Accession number:
PML 338
Published:
[Venice : Guilelmus Anima Mia, Tridinensis?, not after 1485]; [about 1486]
Description:
(4to)
Credit Line:
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes:
49 woodcut maps. For dating see note in BMC, which postulates a date of completion before the death of Doge Giovanni Mocenigo in 1485. CIBN dates about 1486. On the variants, see C.F. Bühler in Gb Jb 1957 pp.94-97.
Checklist: "JPM 338."
Binding:
Contemporary Italian brown morocco, tooled in blind with strapwork designs in a central panel; two clasps, in slipcase.
Provenance:
From the libraries of Baron Achille Seilliere, with the bookplate of the Bibliotheque de Mello (sale, Sotheby's, 28 Feb. 1887, lot 103, to James Toovey for £27); William Morris and Richard Bennett; Pierpont Morgan.
Classification:
Catalog Link:
Century:
Department: