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Credit: Sales catalogue 519: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![1531 A.D. [37] RESENDIUS (L. Andreas). Narratio rerum gestarum in India a Lusitanis, anno 1530, juxta exemplum epistolae, quam Nonius Cugna, Dux Indiae max designatus, ad Regem misit, ex urbe Cananorio IIII. Idus Octobris, anni eiusdem. 12mo, levant morocco gilt, g.e., by Riviere. Louvain, XI. Cal. Jul., 1531. £24 A very scarce and exceedingly important tract occupying 32 pages of which the last six are blank, based on the official letter sent to the King of Portugal by the Viceroy of India, Nuno de Cunha, from Cananor, in which he relates the heroic actions of the Portuguese against various places in India. This is probably the earliest printed account of these exploits. ‘The title of the narrative occupies half of the first page of text. 1533 A.D. [38] APIAN (Peter). Cosmographicus liber, restitutus per Gem- mam Phrysium. Vignette of a mounted globe on title, and numerous illustrations, includ- ing various revolving diagrams of globes, etc. 4to, half calf, t.e.g. Antwerp, Joannes Grapheus, 1533. £15 15s. Peter Bienevitz (better known under his latinized name Petrus Apianus), was Professor of Astronomy at the University of Ingolstadt, for more than thirty years. He was an inventor of astronomical instruments and designed one of the ‘earliest maps to contain the name America. His mathematical and astronomical works must always take a prominent rank among those relating to the discoveries in the Western Hemisphere. 1533 A.D. [39] PRESTER JOHN’S MISSION TO THE POPE. Legatio David Aethiopiae Regis, ad Sanctisssmum D.N. Clementem Papa VII. una- cum obedientia, eidem sanctiss. D.N. prestita. Ejusdem David Aethiopie Regis Legatio, ad Emanuelem Portugalliz Regem. Item alia legatio eiusdem David Aethiopie Regis, ad Joannem Portugalliz apa De Regno Aethiopiz, ac populo, deque moribus eiusdem populi nonnulla. 4to, bound by Chambolle-Duru in full crimson levant morocco, gilt, g.e. Bologna, apud Jacobum Kemolen Alostensem, 1533. £15 15s. The Latin text of the address conveyed to Pope Clement VII by Francisco Alvarez during the visit of the Ethiopian Mission to Rome; letters that passed between Kings John II and Manuel of Portugal and the Emperor David of Ethiopia, commonly called Prestor John, etc.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31664374_0048.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
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