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Credit: Sales catalogue: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![L6] WITH A REMARKABLE WOODCUT MAP OF AMERICA DARINEL (pseudonym of Gilles Boileau de Bouillon): LA SPHERE, 1555. LA SPHERE DES DEUX MONDES, COMPOSEE EN FRANCOIS, PAR DARINEL, PAS- TEUR DES AMADIS. AVEC UN EPITHALAME, QUE LE MESME AUTHEUR HA FAICT, SUR LES NOPCES & MARIAGE DE TRES ILLUSTRE, & SERENISSIME PRINCE, DON PHILIPPE, ROY D’ ANGLETERRE, &C. COMMENTE, GLOSE, & ENRICHY DE PLUSIEURS FABLES POETICQUES, PAR GBD a8) CCD race With 19 maps and other woodcuts. Small 4to. Crimson morocco, gilt medallion of olive leaves on sides, inside dentelles, g. e., by Trautz-Bauzonnet. ANVERS, JEHAN RICHART, 1555. (See Illustration opposite and overleaf.) £85 Sabin, 18576. Church Catalogue, tor. Library of Congress (Rare Book Room, G.120. B65.) Sabin, in his collation of this work, does not mention the last leaf containing the colophon, nor the blank leaf which follows, necessary to complete signature P, both of which are present in our copy. This work contains 19 woodcut maps, one being a cordiform map of the world, another a map giving the whole of South America and the South-East Coast of North America with the heading “ Peru, brevis exactaque totius Novi Orbis ejusque Insularum descriptio recens a Joan Bellero edita.”’ To each of the maps is appended a curious cosmographical Stanza, of eight lines. That for the map of the western hemisphere, on the verso of folio 55, is as follows :— © Peru, Oultre la mer, se voit le grande Peru Large eStendu, ce semble un autre monde. D’ou l’or massif est si trestant venu Que lon fauldroit en somme si profonde. Mais qu’en est il? le territoire abonde Mille Midas y vont mourant de fain, Tel a trop plus, mais encores il sonde, Et va querant ce quil tient en sa main.” “ A poetical volume of considerable rarity, which must always prove equally and extremely attractive to the English or American Collector. The ‘ Epithalame ’ or the ‘ Canto Nupcial y otro Matrimonial ’ on the Mar- riage of Philip II of Spain with Mary, Queen of England, is in Spanish, a fact totally overlooked by Biblio- graphers who have given the title of the work.” I2](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31643802_0020.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
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