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RAMUSIO, Giovanni Battista (1485–1557).
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RAMUSIO, Giovanni Battista (1485–1557).
See original version (Italian)
Estimate €200 - €300
Voluntary lot
Description
RAMUSIO, Giovanni Battista (1485–1557). *Delle navigationi et viaggi*. First volume… on Africa, and the land of the Priest Ianni… and as far as the Moluccan Islands. Venice: Giunti, 1554.
Study copy containing only the text of the second edition of the first volume of Ramusio’s celebrated collection of voyages, the first major 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. Unfortunately, the three maps are missing from this copy.
Folio (300 × 200 mm). Volume I only (of 3). Illustrations in the text, printer’s mark at the colophon. Missing the title page and the three double-page maps; foxing, slight water stains, early repairs to several leaves and to the final leaf. Contemporary stiff vellum (defects and some losses to the 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*. Third part containing the most remarkable sights seen in Hindustan. Naples: Giuseppe Roselli, 1708. 8vo. Part III only (of 6), 16 plates (slight browning). Full vellum. The third part of Gemelli Careri’s celebrated account of his journey round the world, devoted to Hindustan and to the observations made by the author during his travels through India. (2)
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