Sales catalogue 479: Maggs Bros

Date:
1926
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/45
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 479: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Martyr—continued. qui est de la mer Oceane. La tierce, qui est de la prise de Tenustitan. | Printed in italics with side notes in the same. Small 4to. Bound by Rousselle in full levant morocco, gold border and corner fleurons on sides, full gilt back, instede doublures of crimson morocco elaborately tooled to a geometrical pattern, watered silk fly leaves, g. e. Paris, Simon de Colines, 1532. (SEE ILLUSTRATION, PLATE No. XXXV.). £500 Harrisse No. 167. Church Catalogue No. 64. Sabin No. 1554. This is the first collection of voyages printed in French. It contains a translation, somewhat abridged of Peter Martyr’s First Three Decades. Three narrations, the first being a translation of the first edition of Peter Martyr’s Fourth Decade, taken from the Basle edition of 1521, and the Second and Third, abridged translation of the Second and Third Letters of Cortes. The first portion was dedicated by the translator to Charles, Duc d’Angouléme, and the second to his sister Marguerite, both children of Francis I, who, at the time, were only nine and ten years of age respectively. According to the Church Catalogue only seven libraries possess copies of this book. Cortes’ SECOND AND [HIRD LETTERS, WITH ADDITIONAL ACCOUNT OF THE FRANCISCAN MiIssIoNARY SCHOOLS IN Mexico. 1532 A.D. [3925] CORTES. De Insulis nuper Inventis Narra- tiones cum Petri Martyris Libello. His accesserunt Epistolae duae de felicisssmo apud Indos Evangelii incremento, quas superioribus hisce diebus quidam fratres Minores ab India in Hispaniam transmisserunt. Item Epitome de inventis nuper Indiae populis idolatris ad idem Christi, atque adeo ad Ecclesiam Catholicam convertendis, autore N. Herbon. Roman Letter, long lines, with portrait of the Emperor Charles V. on title-page enclosed in a border displaying 25 escutcheons of Spanish towns and provinces (repeated twice), and painter’s mark on the last leaf. Small folio. A magnificent copy bound by David, full levant morocco
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