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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    First Irattan EDITION OF THE SPANISH VoyaGEes RouND THE Wor Lp. 1536 A.D. [3931] MAXIMILLIANUS TRANSYLVANUS AND PIGAFETTA (Ff. 4.). Il Viaggio Fatto da gli Spagniuoli Atorno al Mondo. FirST ITALIAN EDITION. Small 4to. Bound by Lortic in crimson levant morocco, ornamental lines on sides, panelled back, inside dentelles, g. e. Venice, 1530. (SEE ILLUSTRATION, PLATE No. XL.). £450 Harrisse, No. 215. Church Catalogue, No. 74. Sabin, No. 47042. The Church Catalogue only knows of four libraries, including the British Museum, containing copies of this book. This work is the first Italian edition, and was doubtlessly intended as a continuation or fourth part of the collection of voyages printed at Venice in 1534. This volume contains two distinct and original accounts of Magellan’s Voyage around the world. The first, by Maximilanus Transylvanus, is translated into Italian from the Latin and occupies the twelve leaves of sheets A, B, and C. The second is a short account which Pigafetta published from his own manu- script journal, the chief source of information for the events of that voyage. This professes to be a translation from Fabre’s French abridgment of the journal pub- lished at Paris about 1525. The final leaf contains a vocabulary of Indian words as used by the Brazilian Indians. ; The book is preceded by a remarkable preface ‘‘al Lettore’’ in which the Editor (who does not give his name) shows himself to have been perfectly acquainted with the progress of discovery and research in the west, and to have understood the real importance of the events then taking place, better than most of his contemporaries. This preface only occupies five pages, but it is indeed a noteworthy review of all the latest advances in geography. 1536 A.D. [3932] [MARTYR (Peter).] Descriptio Terrae Sanctae exactissima, autore Brocardo Monacho. De Novis Insulis nuper repertis, et de moribus incolarum earundem, per Petrum Martyrem. With fine printer’s mark on last page. Bound by Lortic in full green levant morocco, gilt lines and ornamental sides, gilt panel back, inside dentelles, g. e. Amsterdam, Joannes Steelsius, 1536. £52 10S Harrisse No. 218. This work contains two works, the second of which is the famous book of Peter Martyr extracted from the Fourth Decade made by Peter Martyr himself. The second work is an account of a voyage to the Holy Land made by a German Monk. This abstract is mentioned frequently in the earlier writers on Mexico. It mentions the Grijalva Expedition and the first voyage of Darien.
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