World Map
by BORDONE, Benedetto, Woodcut, 325 x 165 mm
This simple woodcut world map was published in 1528 by Bordone in his Libro di Benedetto Bordone or Isolario [Book of Islands] in Venice. It was long considered to be the first use of this type of projection for a printed world map. However, an earlier world map by Francesco Rosselli from c. 1508 also uses this oval projection and may have served as a major source for this relatively coarse example by Bordone.