Sales catalogue 519: Maggs Bros

Date:
1929
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/75
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 519: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Prester John—continued. he sent many reports home to his King, and the question of the Ethiopian Prester John was settled once and for all.’’ ‘* The second Portuguese Mission, under Dom Rodrigo da Lima, who reached Abyssinia in 1520, was actually in response to a mission sent by the Queen Regent of Ethiopia under a certain Matheus, an Armenian... After a series of misadven- tures, extending over two years, he finally reached Lisbon in 1514.”’ ‘* The return mission (with whom was Father Francisco Alvarez, the author and historian of this expedition), took this same Matheus with it, but his ill luck pursued him to the end, and he died a few days after he landed at Massova.’’ ‘* One of the results of Rodrigo da Lima’s expedition which spent five years in the suite of Prester John was the compilation of this important work on the History, Manners, and Customs of Ethiopia.’’ This excessively rare and beautifully printed book will be fully described by King Manuel in his Catalogue of Early Portuguese Books in the Library of H.M. King Manuel of Portugal (London, Mages Bros., 1928). 1540 A.D. [50] ALVAREZ (Francisco). Ho Preste Joam das Indias. Another copy, perfect except for the printer’s device at end being supplied in facsimile. Folio, levant morocco, g.e., by Riviere. Lisbon, Luiz Rodriguez, 1540. £150 1540 A.D. [51] BIANCO (Father Noé). Viaggio da Venezia al S. Sepolcro et al Monte Sinai. With woodcut of the Passion also representing Our Lady and Saint Mary Magdalen on the title; 19 full-page woodcuts and 139 smaller ones in text, descriptive of the cities and towns on the road to Jerusalem. 12mo, calf. Lucca, Marescandoli, (N.D. circa 1540). L555: Very scarce account of Father Noé’s journey from Venice to Jerusalem. Some pages cut close by the binder. 1540 A.D. [52] PICCOLOMINI (Alessandro). De la Sfera del Mondo. Libri Quattro in Lingua Toscana. Dele Stelle Fisse. Libro uno. With various mathematical diagrams in the text, and 48 full-page charts of the heavens, shewing the various constellations. The two works in one volume. Small 4to, original vellum. Venice, al segno del Pozzo, 1540. 5 55.
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