Bordone, No title  (Libro de Benedetto Bordone (Isolario), 1528.  First edition, heretofore unrecognized first issue, Quarto, complete, minor waterstaining in a few margins.  Extraordinarily rare.

It has long been known that the first edition of the renowned Bordone atlas was published in 1528.  What has hitherto not been recognized is that there were two distinct issues that year and that the earlier, the true first issue, offered here, is extraordinarily rare.  This atlas, in its first appearance, had yet to be titled. The name that it normally goes by, Isolario, was added in later editions.  The significance of this atlas is both largely unrecognized and difficult to overestimate.  It contains the first ever separate printed maps of North America, South America, Cuba, Hispaniola, Japan,  and numerous other islands of the world.  The fact that North America appears at all in this atlas implies that Bordone considered these new lands to be truly a new world and not attached to Asia, although the geography resembles that of eastern Asia.  Nevertheless, the features of the map of North America (also visible on a smaller scale in the World map) are clear. One sees the slanted east coast from the Gulf northwards, the turn in direction around New York, whose harbor is almost certainly the large bay shown where the coastal direction changes, the south shore of Long Island (not yet known to be an island). the bays and rudimentary capes of New England, stretching up to Cape Breton Island and beyond.  One of the most important early cartographic acquisitions in its heretofore unknown true first state. Burden, No. 8.  $$$$$$$

Lopez, Altas Elemental Moderno O Collection de Mapas, 1592, long quarto, first atlas with maps in Spanish to name the United States (Estados Unidos) -- appears on 4 maps.  Possible proof copy. Paper boards, excellent condition.

This is the first atlas, offered here in what appears to be a proof state with the text pages tipped in, of the first atlas to show maps that named the United States in Spanish.  This name appears on four maps, the world map, the general map of North America and two localized maps of America.  Rare and importance for the Hispanic cartographic history of North America.  $$$