Sales catalogue 502: Maggs Bros

Date:
1928
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/60
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 502: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    la Navigatione di Spagna in Calicut, et da Albertutio Vesputio Fiorentino intitulato Mondo Novo... With a fine woodcut view of Venice on the title. 8vo, old russia gilt. Venice, Zorzo de Rusconi, 1521. (See [nLustRaTIoNn, Opposite). £300 Harrisse, No. 109. Sabin, No. 50055. Church Catalogue, No. 46. Bartlett, Vol. I, No: 68: This edition contains more and important additional material than in the earlier editions. There has been much controversy as to who was the actual compiler of this important work, which may be considered as the first representative collection of Voyages.. It is usually ascribed to Montalboddo Francan, and sometimes to Alezander Zorzi, but its chief importance les in its including Amerigo Vespucci’s letter to Lorenzo de Medici, giving him an account of his discoveries. The other contents of the work are :— The voyages of Cadomosto to Cape Verde, 1454-5. The voyages of Pedro de Cintra to Senegal in 1462. Vasco da Gama’s Voyage round the Cape of Good Hope, 1497-1500. Cabral’s voyage to Brazil in 1500. Abridgement of Peter Martyr’s first Decade, containing the voyages of Columbus, Alonso Nifio, and Pinzon, 1492-1500. | Letters of various Venetian Ambassadors and Merchants, 1501-1502, concerning the Portuguese voyages to India, and Corte Real’s voyage to America. Account of India by Joseph of Cranganor (the Indian Christian whom Cabral brought from India in 1501), 1502.
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