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![Vppa Trenne Reesor . . Tryckt pa Wijsindzborg, aff. . Johann Kankel. mopcrxxiv. Small 4to. hf. morocco gilt, top uncut, with Dr. Burnell’s bookplate 1674 Printed at Count Peer Brahe’s private press at Wijsingsborg in Sweden. There are four parts init. I, pp. 1-162: Nils Matson Kidping’s Voyage round Africa and travels through Arabia, Persia, India, Ceylon, Burma, Malacca, Siam, Java, Moluccas, Formosa, &c, 1647-56. II, pp. 163-233 ; Erichszon Willman’s Voyage to India and Japan, 1647-52, IIT, pp. 234-289: Oloff Willman’s Description of Japan (1643), IV, pp. 290-304 : Russian Explorations of the North Hast Passage to China. to the close of 1844, 2 vols. sm. 8vo. frontispieces and woodcuts ; cloth 1846 Missionary to the Indians . . Chiefly taken from his own Diary . . By Jonathan Edwards . . To which is annexed . . Brainerd’s Journal . 2 parts in 1 vol. 8vo. calf Hdinburgh, 1765 du Mexique et de l’Amérique-Centrale durant les siécles antérieurs a Christophe Colomb, écrite sur des documents originaux et entiérement inédits . . 4 vols. large 8vo. hf. calf gilt Paris, 1857-59 The only available collection and digest of the native traditions which represent the pre-Columbian history of the races of Central America. contains the large and beautiful woodcut symbolising the city of Mentz. Fol. 2 a: [R] Euerendissimo in xpo patri et dno dno Bertholdo sancte Magiutin. sedis Archiepiscopo . . Bernhardus de Breydenbach . . Fol. 4b: Prefatioin opus transmarine peragrinationis . . fol. 8a: Sequitur inicium huius peregrinationis .. Colophon on the second last leaf: Sanctari peregrinationt in montem Syon ad venerandii xpi sepulcrit in Ierusalem . atq3 in monté Synai ad diua virginé et matiré Katherina opusculum hoe cdtentiuii p Erhardi reuwich de Traiecto inferiori impressum In ciuitate Moguntina Anno salutis . M. ccce. lxxxvj. die. x]. February Finit feli’ter. Under this a small armorial woodcut. Last leaf blank. Small folio, with numerous large woodcuts as particularised below ; old red morocco gilt, gilt edges, with the bookplate of George Wilbraham Mentz, 1486 The large woodcuts are as follows : 1 frontispiece ; 2 Panorama of Venice, 65 inches by 113, a little broken and patched ; 3 View of Corfu; 4 Parentum ; 5 Candia, 31 x 10 inches; 6 Modon, 314 x 10% inches; 7 Rhodes, patched and slightly defective, patched and slightly defective. Throughout the book and on the back of the Jerusalem view there are several smaller woodcuts. In the view of Venice two of the sections have been supplied from the Spires issue of the book, as we learn only from the type of the printed matter which occupies the back of those two sections, the woodblocks them- selves being identical in both issues. ‘The text relating to Venice is therefore partially missing. the same, in German. Fol. 1: Dis buch ist innhaltend die heiligé reysen gein Iherusalem zu dem heiligen grab und furbasz zu der hochgelobten jungfrowen vnd merteryn sant katheryn. This title Hie endet sich das erst theyll disz buchs. fol. 77a: In die ander reysz von Hierusalem durch die wiisteney .. Fol. 112a: . . Ere sey gott in der hohe. Foll. 113-142 consist of wnited and folded views of Venice, Parentun, Corfu, Modon, Candia, Rhodes, and the Holy Land, with letterpress on the backs of some of them ; bds. S. n. (Strassburg about 1488-89) This is a complete edition of Breydenbach, only aiHeren from the original in omitting the allegorical figure of Menta, 105 other tllustrations (pub. 21s) ; cloth 1887 2% £ Ser id. 0 0 ley Ge 0 014 0 oe Te SOS. OU Ldes Oe” @ ee. oe G](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30857867_0025.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
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