Maffei (Giovanni Pietro) Historiarum Indicarum libri XVI..., first edition, Florence, Filippo

Maffei (Giovanni Pietro) Historiarum Indicarum libri XVI..., first edition, printer's device to title and final leaf verso, woodcut initials, large book-label, title with small closed tear paper repair at foot, and along with following leaf reinforced at gutter, scattered marginal worming (no text lost), occasional faint marginal damp-stains, eighteenth century mottled calf, spine gilt, a few light scuffs, [Edit16 CNCE 28797], folio, Florence, Filippo Giunta, 1588.*** First edition of this important work on the "Indies", both West and East; a collection of accounts of the Portuguese discoveries and missionary work in China and Japan, the East Indies, Brazil and the Americas. This copy complete with the life of St. Ignatius of Loyola, sometimes lacking.