Isolario di Benedetto Bordone..
Isolario di Benedetto Bordone..
de tutte lIsole del mondo...
Venice, Aristotele (=Zoppino) , 1534
(Shirley 59; Ginsberg, Scandinavia, map 7; Burden, map 8: Suarez, Shedding the veil, pp 66/67; Harrisse Vetustissima no. 187
In folio, XIX quarter vellum
10 nn leaves; 74 folios
Title in engraved scrolls printed in red and black
Second edition of this important atlas, published in June 1534.The atlas includes the first edition of the oldest known report on Pizarros conquest of Peru and his victory over the Incas on March 15, 1533.
The modern ...
Histoire Universelle des Indes Occidentales... des Indes Orientales
Douay, Francois Fabri, 1607
Koeman mentions this edition without bibliography
Skelton in Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, I Vol V, 1964
In folio, 30x20 cm
Contemporary full calf, spine restored. Title in gilt in the spine
4 nn lvs; 136 pp; 19 double page maps ; 4 nn lvs
6 nn lvs ; 72 pp including one double page with 4 maps
Two of three books of Wyfliets atlas, the first atlas of the Americas and, since 1605, in French, an atlas of the discovery of Asia as well.
Lacks, as ...
Achtzehenter Theil der Newen Welt...
(Herreras atlas and description of the Americas)
Franckfurt am Mayn,
Weissen, in Verleging die Hulsischen. 1623
(Church 310; JCB I 573)
Small in quarto. Remboitage in old vellum over boards
4 nn leaves, including engraved title page;
256 pages
14 (folding) maps
First and complete translation in German of Antonio de Herreras Descripcion de las Indias, 1601, the second atlas ever to be dedicated to the Americas. This essential atlas accompanied his magnificent Historia de los Hechos de los Castellanos en las Indias Occidentales, Madrid 1601-1615. The ...
