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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    SACROBUSTO—continued. terrestrial globe ; of circles great and small; of the rising and setting of the stars; and of the orbits and movements of the planets. Ir WAS THE SECOND ASTRONOMICAL WORK TO APPEAR IN PRINT. ‘Tt is evident that a work originally written in the early part of the thirteenth century cannot contain anything on America, but this work became to the mathematicians and geographers of the century following the re-discovery by Columbus, an inexhaustible source of commentaries, some of which certainly con- tain references to the oceanic discoveries, attributed, especially by the Italian commentators, to Vespuccius.”’ 1544 A.D. [3948] POSTEL (Guillaume). De orbis terrae concordia libri quatuor. Folio. Bound by David in crimson levant morocco, gilt lines on sides, gilt back, g. e. (Basel, about 1544]. £21 ‘Sabin, 64524. Harrisse, 145. In the first book, Postel exposes the dogmas of the Christian religion; in the second, after an investigation into the life of Mahomet, he examines the Koran and refutes it; in the third he develops the notions of natural law and the principles of right accepted by all religions; finally in the fourth book he indi- cates the means to be employed to lead the pagans, Turks, and Jews to the Christian religion. This last book contains a passage, beginning of p. 350, relating to the religions of the natives of America. The present copy is in a remarkably fine state of preservation. No copy in the Church Catalogue. 1544 A.D. [3949] GOES (Damiao A.). Opuscula. Fides, Religio, moresqu Aethiopum. Epistolae aliquot Preciosi Joannis, Paulo Jouio & ipso Damiano interpretibus. Deploratio Lappianae gentis. Lappiae descriptio. Bellum Cambaicum. De rebus & imperio Lusitanorum ad Paulum Jovium discep- tatiuncula. , Hispaniae ubertas & potentia. Pro Hispania adversus Munsterum defensio. Ato, half calf. Louvain, December, 1544. £15 15S Harrisse, Additions, 144. .
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