1555 Novus orbis regionum antique 16th CENTURY FOLIO COSMOGRAPHY TRAVELS rare

Novus orbis regionum ac insularum veteribus incognitarum una cum tabula cosmographica, & aliquot aliis consimilis argumenti libellus.
Adiecta est huic postremae editioni navigatio Caroli Caesaris auspicio in comitiis Augustanis instituta.
by HUTTICH, Johann (?1480-1544) and Simon GRYNAEUS (1493-1541)
Basel, Johann Hervagium; 1555
Folio: 8 by 13.5"
title with printer's mark (repeated at colophon), 2 woodcuts in the text, num.
Woodcut initials, 25 lvs, 677 pages (recte 577), 1 leaf with old repair.
Blind checked brown leather over wooden boards, embossed floral decoration and male heads, with the heads of the apostles Peter and Paul dated 1539) and intact 2 clasps.
Minor wear of binding, some faded spots at the margins
Fourth and most complete edition containing more accounts of the New World than previous editions (first published Basel, 1532)
As often without the missing Sebastian Munster map
Contains accounts of the voyages of Cadamosto,
the three voyages of Columbus, Nino, Pinzon, Vespucci, Cabral, and part of the Fourth Decade of Peter Martyr, "also many other pieces which do not relate to America" (Sabin).
Beginning with Madrignano's latin version of the "Paesi novamente retrovati", and followed by ten accounts, all of which had been previously published except the second, they include Vespucci's letter to Piero Soderinin Gonfalonier of Florence, recording his four voyages which was first published in 1507 as an appendix to Waldseemuller's "Cosmographiae Introductio";
the first publication of a letter from King Manuel of Portugal to Leo X relating the conquest of Malacca and the relief of Goa by Albuquerque;
Madrignano's Latin translation of the "Itinerario" of Ludovico di Varthema, printed Rome 1510;
Brocardus's description of the Holy Land;
the travels of Marco Polo;
the travels of Hayton the Armenian;
a description of Russia by Matthias of Miechow first published in Cracow in 1517; another description of Russia by Paolo Giovio, first published in Rome 1525;
Peter the Martyr's Fourth Decade, fist published in Basel in 1521;
an account of the antiquities of Prussia by Erasmuns Stella
the letters of H. Cortes to Emperor Charles V on the conquest of Mexico.
Additions to the present edition include the second and third Cortez letters,
letters on propagation of the Gospel among Indians,
epistle of Bishop of Temixtitan in "Huketan,"
and the summary of Herborn's discourse on the conversion of the Indians.
Text in Latin

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