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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    MarINEo SicuLo—continued. panel back with gilt fleurons, inside dentelles, g.e. Alcala de Henares, Juan de Brocar, 1539. (SEE ILLUSTRATION, PLATE No. XLIV.). £35 Salva No. 8024. Harrisse No. 226. Very fine copy. This work, which records the memorable events in Spanish history up to the time of Charies V, includes a long account of the reign of Ferdinand and Isabella, mentioning the American possessions, and the curious statement that ‘Pedro Colon ’’ was sent out with a fleet to explore the Atlantic. As Harrisse comments, ‘‘ the great decay of letters in Spain under John II, Henry IV and even of Ferdinand and Isabella, was followed by a revival, due chiefly to the example of Italy at that time, and the influence of a few Italian scholars who had made Spain the land of their adoption, among whom the author of the work before us may be said to have exercised a greater influence than any other. Lucius or Lucas Marineo, called Siculus, owing to his Sicilian origin, was born about the year 1460. From Palermo, where he taught Belles-Lettres, he removed to Spain, and held for twelve years the Chair of Latin Literature in the University of Salamanca. He was afterwards appointed to the offices of Royal Chaplain and historiographer, and is supposed to have died shortly after the year 1533.’’ 1540 A.D. [3940] POMPONIUS MELA. De Orbis situ libri tres. With large folding double-page map of the World. Folio. Bound by Petit in full levant morocco, gilt lines on sides, fully gilt back, inside dentelles, g.e. Paris, Jean Roigny, 1540. (SEE ILLUSTRATION, PLATE No. XLV.). £75 Harrisse, Additions, No. 126. 1540 A.D. [3941] PICCOLOMINI (Alessandro). De la Sfera del Mondo. Libri Quattro in Lingua Tescana. Dele Stelle Fisse. Libro uno. With various mathematical diagrams in the text, and 48 full-page charts of the heavens, shewing the various constellations. The two works in one volume. Small 4to. Ovzginal vellum. Venice, al segno del Pozzo, 1540. £5 5s
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