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Rare and important early plan of Mexico City from Bordone's Libro di Benedetto Bordone nel qual si ragiona de tutte l'isole del mondo . . .
With the exception of the image of Santo Domingo which accompanied Columbus' first letter, the earliest plan of any city in America is the Cortes map of Tenochtitlan (Mexico City), which first appeared in 1524. Variant editions of the plan appeared in Bordone's Isolario, Munster's Cosmographia, Ramusio's Navigatione et viaggi, and Antoine du Pinet's Plantz, pourtraitz et descriptions de plusiueres villes et fortresses.
Benedetto Bordone (1460-1531) was a polymath who was born in Padua and worked in Venice. He was an illuminator, engraver, miniaturist, editor, and geographer. It is possible he made the first globe in Italy. His most famous work is the Isolario, or Book of Islands, which included many of the earliest printed maps of islands in the New World.
![(Mexican-Aztec Paintings) [Chapultepec and Coyotepec] Mexican Painting. 3738. Codex Vaticanus, page 130, Aglio 2 Vol.](https://storage.googleapis.com/raremaps/img/small/102306.jpg)
