Author: MAURO, FRA; ZURLA, PLACIDO
Title: Il Mappamondo
Description: Venice, Camaldose. 1806. leather. Used, Oversized hardcover quarter bound in black leather with red title piece and gilt bands to spine. Light green marbled paper sides. Text in Italian, 164pp, fold-out map (the first substantial study and reproduction of Fra Mauro's famous Mappa mundi, considered the supreme medieval map of the world and the "greatest memorial of medieval cartography") and illustrated plate at rear of book, both with minor foxing only. Piece of spine head strip is missing, spine sides are split, board edges and corners are bumped and papers sides are marked and scuffed. Internal pages are lightly foxed. The text remains clean and clear throughout. AD. Good.

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