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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    1537 A.D. [3934] GIUSTINIANO (Agostino). Castigatissimi Annali Con la loro Copiosa Tavola della Republica di Genoa, da fideli et approuati Scrittori, per Monsignore Agostino Giustiniano, Genoese. Title printed in red and black containing fine large woodcut showing two angels supporting the Arms of Genoa, with inscription. Fine large woodcut on the reverse of title showing St. George killing the Dragon, and fine woodcut initial letters. Folio. Bound by David in full blue levant morocco gilt, inside dentelles, g.e. Genoa, Antonio Bellono, 18th March, 1537. ) £35 Harrisse 220. These are the well known annals of the Republic of Genoa by Giustiniano, the editor of the Polyglot Psalter No. 3906 of this Catalogue. This work contains on folio 249 an interesting account of Columbus, and a mention of the bequest supposed to have been made by the Admiral “‘ all ufficio di. S. Georgio la decima parte,’’ of all he owed, for the erection of an hospital, we believe. The passage is sometimes cited to impart an air of authenticity to the codicil, made according to military usage, and written on a blank leaf of a breviary, said to have been presented to Columbus by Alexander VI, and found afterwards in the Corsini Library at Rome, or picked up in a book-stall, and purchased for a few cents. 1537 A.D. [3935] [SACRO BOSCO (Giovanni di).| MAURO (M.). Sphera Volgare novamente tradotta con molte notande additione di geometria, cosmographia, arte navicatoria, et stereo- metria, proportioni, et quantita delli elementi, distanze, gran- deze, et movimenti di tutti li corpi celesti, cose certamente rare et maravigliose. With fine woodcut borders. With geographical, astrological and heraldic woodcuts. Small 4to. Old vellum. Ventce, Bartholomeo Zanetti, 1537. ; £10 Ios Harrisse, No. 219. The cosmographical woodcuts include two globes depicting America.
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