Sales catalogue 9: R. Lier & Co.

Date:: 1926

Reference:: WA/HMM/CM/Sal/40/2

Credit: Sales catalogue 9: R. Lier & Co. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$Rca : poten ue oA % ‘ ae wo as : if te Soe , - GEOGRAPHY. - INSECTS. 73 «172, — RAMUSIO, Giov. Battista. Navigationi et viaggi. Three — ‘Vols. I. 4, 34, 394 leaves ; II. 28, 256, 90 leaves ; III. 6, 34, 453 leaves. With three double page maps and large cuts in the text in the first, seven double page maps and plates in the third vol. and initial letters, all engraved on wood. Printer’s device (repeated). Folio. Vellum. Venice, Giunta, 1563, 1565 and 1583. Frs. 200.— ? An early—and what is a great rarity—a complete edition of this famous Sad og ae. ; Va; a ¢ Sad die: We erie eT og ee %~2 =. RY os \ wi work. «The publication of Ramusio’s raccolta may be said to open hee an era in the literary history of voyages and navigation. Instead of ‘pa - accounts carelessly copied etc. we find in this valuable work original er) = narrations judiciously selected, carefully printed, etc.». Ramusio was foe born at Trevise, in 1485 and died at Padova in 1557, ee The third volume contains the most important relations on America by —. Petrus Martyr, Oviedo, Fernando Cortez, Alvarado, Francesco @ Ulloa, Pere Mendozza, Pizzarro, Carthier and others. « Only the two capital relations | eRe _. (of Carthier and Cortez) would entitle the Raccolta to a prominent place ee : in any American Library ». The maps and cuts represent e. g. : Univer- eats sale della parte del mondo nuovamente ritrovata (general map of the F See New World), la terra de Hochelaga nella Nova Francia, Taprobana, me Brazil, La nuova Francia, Cuscho, citta principale del Pert, Temistitam, . . citta di Mexico, American plants and animals, ete. tae ese This work is unvariably uncomplete and in bad state, having been used mn much in its time. Our complete copy has the following imperfectnesses: a « First four leaves of the first vol. mounted, the first map in the same gg vol. mounted and repaired, partly affected by wormholes. Leaf 377 Be damaged with loss of a few words, margin of fols. 369 and 284 strenghte- ees ned, leaves 297-98 slightly worm-eaten in places with loss of a few let- = ters, some leaves browned, otherwise a good copy, especially on account Ss RE of the excessively good condition of the Maps of American interest in a \the third vol. 3 i * 173. — STRABO. Rerum geographicarum libri septem decim. pes Latine fecit cum annotatiunculis Guilelmus Xylander. ae 52 leaves, 977 pp., 1 leaf. With 27 double-page maps engra- , Tae ved on wood; and 7 other smaller maps in the text, printer’s Ban ie . device (repeated) Greek and Latin text, printed in two vols. eae Folio. Old vellum. Basel, Henr. Petrus, 1571. Frs. 65.— pan Esteemed for the geographical maps.—Partly browned as usual. Slight OS a ees wormhole through the margin of a few leaves. In a catalogue of old ‘ - geographical works of this year this work is quoted for 240 Swiss Francs. ss INSECTS 174. MOUFET, Thomas. Theatrum insectorum sive minimorum - animalium, olim ab Edoardo Wottono, Conrado Gesnero, Thomaque Pennio inchoatum. 10 leaves, 326 pp., 2 leaves. With large, curious woodcut on the title showing a beehive, - and about 500 woodcuts. Small folio. Old calf with arms of a cardinal on sides, back gilt (binding damaged in pla- ces). London, Thom. Cotes, 1634. | Frs. 115.— First edition. Moufet, English physician of singular learning, bought . * the unfinished manuscripts of Sir Edward Wooton, Conrad Gesner ~~ and: others on insects, which afterwards came into the possession of c fC Be ia io at eas Vinee i * _ v3 yw { i \, hata$

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