Sales catalogue 566: Maggs Bros

Date:
1931
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/111
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 566: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Bibliographies—continued. 365 [LEIPZIG.] Die Bibliothek und Ihre Kleinodien. (Issued on the 250th anniversary of the Leipzig City Library). Edited by J. Hofmann. With 12 plates. 4to, cloth. Leipzig, 1927. £2 10s The Town Library of Leipzig from 1677 to 1927 by Hofmann. The Reichenau evangelistary. MS. CXC of the Town Library of Leipzig by Schmidt. Fragments of a manuscript of the younger Titurel preserved in the Town Library of Leipzig by Kroker. An unknown autograph document by Leibnitz edited and discussed by Kirchner. Some additional matter to the Vitruvius edition of 1487 in the Town Library of Leipzig by Degering. Illustrations engraved in copper as contained in incunabula by von Rath. Johann Gottlieb Bohme, a Leipzig bibliophile of the 18th century by Leskien. A carved leather binding of the 14th century by Bollert. Carved leather bindings executed at Niirnberg by Herbst. A contribution to our knowledge of Johann Richenbach’s bindings by Glauning. FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST BIBLIOGRAPHY OF AMERICA AND THE EAST. 366 LEON PINELO (Antonio de). Epitome de la Biblioteca Oriental y Occi- dental, nautica y geografica. With finely engraved title. FIRST EDITION. 4to, morocco. Madrid, 1620. (SEE ILLUSTRATION, PLATE No. I). £85 Medina, Vol. VI., No. 7707, devotes seven pages to this work. Sabin, No. 40050. See Wagner, The Spanish South-West, p. 285. Very fine copy of the first edition, which is now excessively rare, of the first American Bibliography which was ever printed. Most copies want the engraved frontispiece, which is in our copy. This work is extremely important for American bibliographers, and is generally cited under the name of Pinelo, which was a surname adopted by Antonio de Leon named ‘‘ The Chronicler of the Indies.’’ The author was born in Peru, and educated at Lima. He wrote many important works, which for the most part only exist in manuscript. The circumstances of the early life of Antonio de Leon Pinelo are still obscure. Available sources offer very little definite information; but it is inferred from statements in his ‘ Life of Santo Toribio’ that his childhood and youth were passed in Lima, and that with his younger brothers, Juan and Diego, he studied at the University of San Marcos. Having completed his studies at the University, he went to Spain; there his talents in learning were recognised, and he was appointed relator of the Council of the Indies.’? — (Dr. Moses, ‘‘ Spanish Colonial Literature in South America ’’), THE FIRST SPANISH AMERICAN BIBLIOGRAPHY. 3607 LEON PINELO (Antonio de). Epitome de la Bibliotheca Oriental y Occi- dental, nautica y Geografica de Don Antonio de Leon Pinelo afiadido y enmendado nuevamente. 3 vols., folio, original vellum. Madrid, Francisco Martinez Abad, 1737-8. £63 Sabin, No. 40058. Sabin, No. 2484. This is the enlarged edition of Leon Pinelo’s original bibliography of travel,
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