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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    15506 A.D. [88] THAMARA (Francisco). El libro de las costumbres de todas las Gentes del Mundo, y de las Indias. Traduzide y copiladdo . . . y dirigido al Illmo Sr Don Juan Claros de Guzman, Conde de Niebla. Small 8vo, maroon morocco, fully gilt panelled back, g. e. Antwerp, Martin Nucio, 1556. £25 A remarkably interesting little work, describing the customs of the ancient and contemporary peoples of Europe, Asia, Africa, and America. The work is translated and based upon that of J. Boémus and G. Giglio, by Francisco Tamara, a professor of Cadiz. 1558 A.D. [89| [ALVAREZ (Francisco)|. Historiale description de |’Ethiopie, contenant vraye relation des terres, & pais du grand Roy, & Empereur Prete- Jan, l’assiette de ses Royaumes & Provinces, leurs coutumes Joix, & religion, avec les pourtraits de leurs temples & autres singularitez, cy devant non cogneves. | With printer’s mark on title-page, and six diagrams. Thick $vo, bound by Rousselle.in full crimson levant morocco, gilt, inside dentelles, g. e. Anvers chez Jehan Bellére, au Faucon, 1558. CEE (re This particular edition is not mentioned either by Brunet vo: Innocencio. 1558 A.D. [90] [ALVAREZ (Francisco)|. Historiale description de 1’Ethiopie. Thick 8vo, bound by Trautz-Bauzonnet in full green levant morocco, inside dentelles, g.e. 7 Antwerp, Imprimerie de Christofle Plantin, a la licorne d’or, 1558. Brie 10s. Another edition, printed the same year by Plantin. From the Libraries of Yeminez and La Roche Lacarelle. Brunet, Vol. I, p. 205. This historical description of Ethiopia comprises the following parts :— 1. Discourse on the first and second letters of Andre Corsal; referring to the voyages of the Infante Henry of Portugal, Marco Polo and others, and the dominion of Prester John. 2. Letter written by the Ethiopian Queen Helen, grandmother of the Em- -peror David Prester John, to King Manuel of Portugal in 1509. 3. Letter from Andre Corsal to Julian de Medicis from Cochin, 1515, describ- ing his voyage out to India, and mentioning the Fortunate Islands, the Moluccas, and
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