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Verlag: Venice Appresso i Giunti 1606 1606, 1613
Anbieter: Shapero Rare Books, London, Vereinigtes Königreich
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Sixth edition of vol. I, fourth edition of vol. II, third edition of vol. III. 3 vols, small folio (312 by 218mm approx.) Woodcut devices to title-pages, 10 double-page maps and plans, 8 full-page woodcut plates, with further illustrations in the text. Contemporary Italian (Venetian?) morocco, boards & spines ruled & stamped in gilt; paper repairs to title-page of vol. I, and outer margin of following two leaves, occasional dampstaining to vol. I, minor worming to first and last leaves and pastedowns of vols. II and III. A handsome set in a contemporary Italian binding. 'One of the earliest and most important collections of Voyages and Travels of the sixteenth century ' (Church). Undoubtedly a foundation work for any collection of Voyages and Travels. The 'most perfect work of that nature in any language whatsoever' (John Locke). Ramusio (1485-1557) served as Secretary to the Venetian Senate, and on retiring to Padua compiled this collection of narratives, including some manuscripts which had never been seen before, towards the end of his life. A planned fourth volume was never published as the manuscript was sadly destroyed shortly after his death by a fire at his publishers. As Harisse points out Ramusio was the first author to edit his work with care, avoiding errors and anachronisms perpetuated in previous copies of the travel narratives he included in his work. Each volume was reprinted several times, with later issues, as here, having new material missing from the first editions. The narratives include those of Columbus, Vasco da Gama, Cortez, Coronado, Cartier, Cadamosto, and many others. In the first volume, Ramusio aimed to correct the errors in Ptolemy's maps, and devoted his attention to Africa and the East, especially the annals of early Portuguese exploration, including Da Gama, Alvarez, and Barros, as well as an account of Pigafetta. In addition, this edition of vol. I includes the five letters on Japan, written in 1549 and 1550 that represent 'the first time that Japan makes a significant appearance in travel literature' (Lach). The first volume also includes a new Italian version of Varthema's Itinerario which, when it was first published in 1510, contained the first printed material on Southeast Asia. The second volume concentrates on voyages to the North and West, including to Russia, only recently released from Mongol domination. The contributors include Paulus Jovius (1483-1552), a correspondent of Barros and a former ambassador to Russia, regarded as an authority on Muscovite matters in general. The second volume also contains Ramusio's version of Marco Polo, which, whilst probably translated from the Portuguese edition of Valentin Fernandes (Lisbon, 1502), remains one of the basic extant versions of Marco Polo's book. The third volume is entirely devoted to America, including the accounts of Peter Martyr, Oviedo, Cortes, Cabeça de Vaca, Guzman, Ulloa, Coronado, Fray Marcos di Niza, Xerez, Verrazano, and Cartier, whose account of New France (the Gulf of Saint Lawrence) is published here for the first time. Alongside some important maps the text includes illustrations of botanical subjects, including maize and cacti, as well as woodcuts of native Americans and their abodes. The maps in the third volume are particularly fine, including one of the Western Hemisphere by Ramusio and Oviedo. It depicts the known world from Japan in the West to the West coast of Africa in the East, and includes the coast of California roughly as far North as San Francisco. In addition, there are fine maps of Mexico City and Brazil, as well as Gastaldi's map of New France which is the earliest printed map of the region. Based on the reports of Verrazzano and Cartier, this map shows the coast of modern-day New England and Canada from New York Bay (marked as Angoulesme) up to the coast of Labrador. Despite the fact that the fourth volume was unable to be published, Ramusio's work opened up a new era in the literary history of voyages and navigation (Harrisse) and is widely acknowledged as the definitive geography of the sixteenth century. Church I, 99; European Americana II, 613/108 & 606/87-88; Sabin, 67735, 67739 & 67742; cf. Borba II, 698-699.
Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2018
ISBN 10: 0365040304ISBN 13: 9780365040309
Anbieter: Buchpark, Trebbin, Deutschland
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Zustand: Wie neu. Zustand: Wie neu | Seiten: 866.
Verlag: Venice, Giunta, 1613
Anbieter: Sokol Books Ltd. ABA ILAB, London, Vereinigtes Königreich
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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Folio. 3 vols. ff. I) (iv) 394; II) 256, 90; III) (iv) 430. Roman letter, with Italic. Woodcut printer s device to t-ps and last of II) and III), over 40 woodcut illustrations of inhabitants, flora and fauna of Asia, Africa and America, 12 woodcut or copperplate maps (10 fold-out including Brazil, Cuzco and Sumatra), decorated initials. Slight mainly marginal foxing or faint dampstaining, little light age browning, the odd thumb or ink mark. Very good copies, on thick paper and of fine impression, in early vellum over pasteboards, rebacked and recornered c1900, traces of ties, gilt lettered morocco label. Remarkably crisp and clean copies of one of the most important collections of voyages and discoveries, beautifully illustrated. As here, most recorded sets are composed of different editions and those like this featuring the most complete editions of each of the individual volumes are rare. 1583 is the first complete (and augmented) edition of vol. 2, and 1606 and 1613 the only complete ones of vols. 1 and 3 (Brunet, IV, 1100-1101), adding for example the travels of Barents and Federici for the first time. Born in Treviso, Giovanni Battista Ramusio (1485-1557) worked as secretary and envoy to Alvise Mocenigo, having access to the latest information on expeditions and travels of exploration reaching Venice from abroad. First published by Ludovico Giunta in three separate volumes between 1550 and 1565, Delle navigationi was a collection of the first-hand Portuguese, Spanish, Greek, Dutch (all translated in the Italian vernacular) and Italian accounts of voyages to Asia, Africa and America published up to that time, illustrated with bespoke maps the first work of its kind. The first volume is mainly devoted to countries which have been known for 300 years , e.g., from Africa (and the kingdom of Prester John) to the Eastern Indies. The second features the accounts of Marco Polo on the Tartars and China (with the first mention of tea in Europe), as well as notices on Persia, Armenia and Paolo Giovio s ground-breaking work on Muscovy. The third is devoted to the world unknown to the ancients Columbus s navigations, Cortéz and Pizarro s expeditions, and notices on Mexico, Peru and other American kingdoms. In addition to engaging information on local flora, fauna, politics and customs, Delle navigationi provided accurate topographical information through handsome and innovative fold-out woodcut and copperplate maps illustrating Cuzco in Peru, Nuova Francia (Newfoundland) the second separate map of Northeast America with the colony of Montreal (the earliest printed such topographical plan for North America), Brazil, Sumatra (the first map of any island in South-Eastern Asia), Eastern Africa, one of the most complete maps of the Western Hemisphere, and a plan of the Mexican city of Temistitan. Through their re-prints of 1606 and 1613, the Giunta capitalised on the continuing commercial success of collections of travel writings epitomised by Richard Hakluyt s Principal Navigations (1589), the original model of which was, as it were, Ramusio s work. I) USTC 851974; BL STC It. C17, p. 720; Cordier III, 1939 (first edition only); Brunet, IV, 1100-1101; Sabin 67735; Alden 613/108. II) USTC 851974; Cordier III, 1939 (first edition only); Brunet, IV, 1100-1101; Sabin 67738; Alden 583/59. III) USTC 4035955; Cordier III, 1939 (first edition only); Brunet, IV, 1100-1101; Sabin 67739; Alden 606/87. K128.
Verlag: (Stamperia de Givunti), (Venedig), 1563
Anbieter: Antiquariat Sasserath, Mönchengladbach, Deutschland
4°, Fotokopie (!), Inhalt: Tommaso Givnti a i Lettori (2 Bl.), Nomi de gli Avtori che hanno scritto i viaggi di qvesto secondo volvme (2 Bl.), Prefacione (14 Bl.), Espositione di M. Gio. Battista Ramvsio (9 Bl.), Dichiaratione (10 Bl.), Indice del secondo Volvme de viaggi delle cose di cosmografia, paesi, popoli. (20 Bl.), Prohemio primo, sopra il libro di Messer Marco Polo., De i viaggi di Messer Marco Polo Gentilhvomo Venetiano (103 Bl.),Discorso sopra il libro del Signor Hayton Armeno (4 Bl.), Parte seconda della historia del Signor Hayton Armeno, che fu figliuol del Signor Curchi, parente del Re di Armenia (5 Bl.), einseitig bedruckte Fotokopien. Gzl, ein Blatt der Espositione ist kopfstehend eingebunden. Guter Zustand. 39866.
Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2018
ISBN 10: 0428813127ISBN 13: 9780428813123
Anbieter: Buchpark, Trebbin, Deutschland
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Zustand: Sehr gut. Zustand: Sehr gut - Gepflegter, sauberer Zustand. | Seiten: 378.
Verlag: Venetia (Venedig), Lucantonio Giunta, 1563., 1563
Anbieter: Antiquariat am Moritzberg, Hildesheim, NDS, Deutschland
Titel, 3 Bll., fol. 34, 394. Mit Holzschnitt-Druckermarke (wiederholt), einigen -Initialen, 5 Textholzschnitten, 5 Holzschnitt-Tafeln (Pläne) und 1 -Karte des Nils. Folio. Moderner flexibler Pergamentband auf 5 durchzogenen Bünden und mit Lederschnur-Schließen. Leclerc 484 ("précieuse collection") bzw. 1234; Brunet IV, 1100f ("collection recherchée"); keine deutsche Ausgabe bekannt (vgl. Kainbacher). Die drei doppelblattgroßen Karten (manchmal in Kupfer, manchmal in Holzschnitten aus der Ausgabe von 1554) fehlen. "Some copies of this volume may have been issued without them, as they are often lacking. The New York Historical Society copy does not contain them, but they are loosely inserted in the Lenox copy, which is in the original binding and in fine condition. They (.) are lacking in the Harvard College copy, which contains the three woodcut maps of the edition of 1554 inserted in their place." Sabin No. 67732 (vol. 16, 395f). Die Bände 2 und 3 dieser dritten Ausgabe erschienen erst bis 1606. Erste und letzte Bll. mit Randläsuren (hinterlegt); braunfleckig und teils wasserrandig; 3 Bll. mit Randein- bzw. Ausrissen (kein Textverlust); alte Besitzvermerke auf Titelei, teils getilgt; Fol. 270 und 308 mit falscher Paginierung; 2 Lagen (Fol. 378-385) verbunden. IT.