RAMUSIO, Giovanni Battista (1485-1557). Delle navigationi et...
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RAMUSIO, Giovanni Battista (1485-1557). Delle navigationi et viaggi. Primo volume...dell'Africa, et del paese del Prete Ianni...et infin all'isole Molucche. Venezia: Giunti, 1554.
Study copy containing the text only of the second edition of the first volume of Ramusio's celebrated collection of voyages, the first great systematic compilation of European travel and exploration literature. Devoted to Africa and southern Asia, the volume brings together accounts of some of the most important explorations of the period, including the voyages of Vasco da Gama, Ludovico de Varthema and Duarte Barbosa, with extensive information on the Indian Ocean, the Arabian Peninsula and the Persian Gulf. The three maps are unfortunately lacking from the present copy.
Folio (300 × 200 mm). Volume I only (of 3). Illustrations in the text, printer's device at colophon. Lacking the title-page and the three double-page maps; foxing, light waterstaining, early repairs to several leaves and to the final leaf. Contemporary stiff vellum (defects and some losses to spine). Provenance: early manuscript inscriptions on the endpapers, Di me Lazzarini and Regalato a me Carlo Menicacci Laurenti di Foligno l'anno 1760 . [IN LOT WITH:] GEMELLI CARERI, Giovanni Francesco (1648-1724). Giro del mondo. Parte terza contenente le cose più ragguardevoli vedute nell'Indostan. Naples: Giuseppe Roselli, 1708. 8vo. Part III only (of 6), 16 plates (light browning). Full vellum. The third part of Gemelli Careri's celebrated account of his journey around the world, devoted to Hindustan and to the observations made by the author during his travels through India. (2)
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RAMUSIO, Giovanni Battista (1485-1557). Delle navigationi et viaggi. Primo volume...dell'Africa, et del paese del Prete Ianni...et infin all'isole Molucche. Venezia: Giunti, 1554.
Study copy containing the text only of the second edition of the first volume of Ramusio's celebrated collection of voyages, the first great systematic compilation of European travel and exploration literature. Devoted to Africa and southern Asia, the volume brings together accounts of some of the most important explorations of the period, including the voyages of Vasco da Gama, Ludovico de Varthema and Duarte Barbosa, with extensive information on the Indian Ocean, the Arabian Peninsula and the Persian Gulf. The three maps are unfortunately lacking from the present copy.
Folio (300 × 200 mm). Volume I only (of 3). Illustrations in the text, printer's device at colophon. Lacking the title-page and the three double-page maps; foxing, light waterstaining, early repairs to several leaves and to the final leaf. Contemporary stiff vellum (defects and some losses to spine). Provenance: early manuscript inscriptions on the endpapers, Di me Lazzarini and Regalato a me Carlo Menicacci Laurenti di Foligno l'anno 1760 . [IN LOT WITH:] GEMELLI CARERI, Giovanni Francesco (1648-1724). Giro del mondo. Parte terza contenente le cose più ragguardevoli vedute nell'Indostan. Naples: Giuseppe Roselli, 1708. 8vo. Part III only (of 6), 16 plates (light browning). Full vellum. The third part of Gemelli Careri's celebrated account of his journey around the world, devoted to Hindustan and to the observations made by the author during his travels through India. (2)
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