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Delle Navigationi et Viaggi in molti luoghi corretta, et ampliata, nella quale si contengono la descrittione dell’africa, & del paese del Prete Ianni, con varii viaggi, dalla Citta di Lisbona, & dal Mar Rosso à Calicut, & infin’all isole Molucche…
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Venetia, Stamperia de Giunti. 1563, 1559, (1558 au colophon) & 1606.
3 folio volumes [335 x 223 mm] p. d. t. on the spine, [4], 34 ll., 3 double-page maps, (num. 394) ; [2], 28 ll. 156 ll. ; [6], 36 ll. 430 ll. 7 double-page maps [396] ; leaves 108 and 109 of the first volume calligraphed in the eighteenth century replace the original missing leaves. Full ivory vellum, spine ribbed, title page in full gold lettering, edges blued. Antique binding circa 1740.
First edition of volume II, third enlarged edition of volumes I and III, rare in uniform antique binding. Ramusio's Viaggi are always or almost always composed of volumes of different editions.
Thus the copy offered in catalog 180 of one of the major international bookstores published on June 18, 2019 at a price of $95,000 was described as follows:
" First editions of volumes II and III, third edition of volume I.
Folio. Three volumes. 3 folding plates in volume I, 7 double-page maps in vol. III, numerous woodcut illustrations, maps, and plans. Vol. I title and last leaf stained and repaired, e5-6 supplied ; Volume II quire H supplied. Early blind-paneled calf, minor restoration, early manuscript paper label at foot of spine. Some browning, staining, and spotting, some dampstaining, minor worning. Lower portion of Western Hemisphere map trimmed and supplied in manuscript. An especially handsome and frest set. "
"A valuable collection that deserves to be highly sought after by travel collectors" (Leclerc 484, for a 1554-83-65 copy).
Sabin 67731 for volume I, 67737 for volume II and 67740 for volume III; Harrisse 304; Church 99.
This seminal work of sixteenth-century travel literature is arguably the most important collection of travels and expeditions ever published.
It opened a new era in travel literature.
" This is one of the earliest and most important collections of voyages and travels, and may be said to have opened a new era in the literary history of voyages and navigation. This work… was the first great systematic collection that had been so far published ". (Hill 1418).
" Ramusio, who truly earned the sobriquet of the Italian Hakluyt, was preeminent as an editor ; he handled his material with great skill and produced a collection of unique value. " (Penrose, Travel and Discovery in the Renaissance, 140-1620, p. 306).
The first volume primarily deals with Africa and South Asia, the second explores central Asia and Russia, while the author devotes the whole of the 3rd volume to a detailed description of America, incorporating accounts by Peter Martyr; Oviedo, Cortes, Cabeza de Vaca, Guzman, Ulloa, Coronado, Fray Marcos di Niza, Xerez and Verrazano. The last part contains the first publication of Jacques Cartier's discoveries in Canada.
The 10 superb double-page maps illustrating this collection represent America, New England, Canada, Brazil, Africa, Japan... and are of the utmost importance.
This classic in the history of exploration includes : the first printings of the description of presentday New York by Verrazzano, the first European to see the harbor ; Cartier's account of his pioneering inland exploration of the continent ; numerous maps and views of fundamental importance in the cartography of the New World ; and most important, the most complete and most influential text of Marco Polo's book of his travels.
Ramusio (1485-1557), the great Venetian humanist, began corresponding with fellow humanist scholars, explorers, and travelers as early as 1525 in order to gather accounts of the Age of Exploration. In 1548 he began to assemble the work, which was first printed in 1550 (vol. I), 1556 (vol. III) and 1559 (the delayed Vol. II). Numerous revisions and reprints followed, and Ramusio spawned countless imitators and successors such as Hakluyt, Purchas, De Bry, and others.
John Locke declared that " Ramusio's collection of voyages and travels [is] the most perfect work of that nature extant in any language whatsoever : containing all the discoveries to the east, west, north, and south ; with full descriptions of all the countries discovered ; judiciously compiled, and free from that great mass of useless matter, which swells our English Hackluyt and Purchas ; much more complete and full than the Latin de Brye, and in fine, the noblest work of this nature. "
" The publication of Ramusio may be said to open an era in the literary history of Voyages and Navigation. Instead of accounts carelessly copied and translated from previous collections, perpetuating errors and anachronisms, we find in this valuable work, original narratives which betray the hand of a scholar of great critical acumen. Nor should we forget that we are indebted to Ramusio for the preservation of accounts of voyages of the utmost importance to the student of American history ; and did his work contain only the " Relatione d'un gentilhuomo del Sig. Fernando Cortese, " and the first voyage of Jacques Cartier to Canada, the two capital relations would entitle the Raccolta to a prominent place in any American library " (Harrisse, Bibliotheca Americana Vetustissima).
The maps were attributed to the great Italian cartographer Giacomo Gastaldi, the tutor of Ramusio's children. Burden 34: Universale della parte del mondo movamente ritrovata : " This is the first American map to include any of the names from the travels of Francisco Vasquez de Coronado, the first European to travel extensively the south-western part of North America " ;
Burden 35 : La Nuova Francia : " the first map devoted to New England and New France, the latter name being used here for the first time " ;
Betz 4 : " It is the first printed map of Africa in a book to show a southbound river ; the Zembere ... [it] also shows for the first time on a printed map of the entire continent, the island of Madagascar ".
The work is furthermore decorated with historiated initials and engravings in the text and on the full page showing the fauna and flora of the new world, as well as the customs of the Indians.
Borba de Moraes (II : 698-99) : " we are indebted to Ramusio for the preservation of accounts of... great importance to the history of Brazilian navigation ".
A precious wide-margined copy (height : 328 mm) preserved in its elegant uniform eighteenth century bindings with a countal provenance : Francis de Astolphy and Comtesse de Clercy at the Château de Baromesnil near Eu.
Français
Venetia, Stamperia de Giunti. 1563, 1559, (1558 au colophon) & 1606.
3 volumes in-folio p. d. t. au dos, [4], 34 ff., 3 cartes à double page, (num. 394) ; [2], 28 ff., 156 ff. ; [6], 36 ff., 430 ff., 7 cartes à double page [396] ; les feuillets 108 et 109 du tome premier calligraphiés au xviiiè siècle remplacent les feuillets d'origine manquants.
Plein vélin ivoire, dos à nerfs, pièce de titre en lettres plein or, tranches bleutées. Reliure ancienne vers 1740.
335 x 223 mm.
Première édition du volume II, troisième édition augmentée des volumes I et III, rare en reliure ancienne uniforme. Les Voyages de Ramusio sont toujours ou presque composés de volumes d'édition différentes.
Ainsi l'exemplaire proposé dans le catalogue 180 de l'une des principales librairies internationales paru le 18 juin 2019 au prix de $95,000 était-il décrit ainsi :
" First editions of volumes II and II, third edition of volume I.
Folio. Three volumes. 3 folding plates in volume I, 7 double-page maps in vol. III, numerous woodcut illustrations, maps, and plans. Vol. I title and last leaf stained and repaired, e5-6 supplied ; Volume II quire H supplied. Early blind-paneled calf, minor restoration, early manuscript paper label at foot of spine. Some browning, staining, and spotting, some dampstaining, minor worning. Lower portion of Western Hemisphere map trimmed and supplied in manuscript. An especially handsome and frest set. "
" Précieuse collection qui mérite d'être très recherchée par les collectionneurs de voyages " (Leclerc 484, pour un exemplaire de 1554-83-65).
Sabin 67731 pour le tome I, 67737 pour le tome II et 67740 pour le tome III ; Harrisse 304 ; Church 99.
Cette œuvre phare de la littérature de Voyage du xviè siècle est sans doute la plus importante collection de Voyages et d'expéditions jamais publiée.
Elle ouvrit une nouvelle ère dans la littérature de voyage.
" This is one of the earliest and most important collections of voyages and travels, and may be said to have opened a new era in the literary history of voyages and navigation. This work… was the first great systematic collection that had so far appeared ". (Hill 1418).
" Ramusio, who truly earned the sobriquet of the Italian Hakluyt, was preeminent as an editor ; he handled his material with great skill and produced a collection of unique value. " (Penrose, Travel and Discovery in the Renaissance, 140-1620, p. 306).
Le premier volume a principalement trait à l'Afrique et à l'Asie du Sud, le second explore l'Asie centrale et la Russie tandis que l'auteur consacre l'intégralité du 3e volume à une description détaillée de l'Amérique en intégrant des récits de Peter Martyr ; Oviedo, Cortes, Cabeza de Vaca, Guzman, Ulloa, Coronado, Fray Marcos di Niza, Xerez et Verrazano. La dernière partie comporte la première publication des découvertes de Jacques Cartier au Canada.
Les 10 superbes cartes sur double-page illustrant cette collection représentent l'Amérique, la Nouvelle-Angleterre, le Canada, le Brésil, l'Afrique, le Japon... et sont de la plus grande importance.
This classic in the history of exploration includes : the first printings of the description of presentday New York by Verrazzano, the first European to see the harbor ; Cartier's account of his pioneering inland exploration of the continent ; numerous maps and views of fundamental importance in the cartography of the New World ; and most important, the most complete and most influential text of Marco Polo's book of his travels.
Ramusio (1485-1557), the great Venetian humanist, began corresponding with fellow humanist scholars, explorers, and travelers and travelers as early as 1525 in order to gather accounts of the Age of Exploration. In 1548 he began to assemble the work, which was first printed in 1550 (vol. I), 1556 (vol. III) and 1559 (the delayed Vol. II). Numerous revisions and reprints followed, and Ramusio spawned countless imitators and successors such as Hakluyt, Purchas, De Bry, and others.
John Locke declared that " Ramusio's collection of voyages and travels [is] the most perfect work of that nature extant in any language whatsoever : containing all the discoveries to the east, west, north, and south ; with full descriptions of all the countries discovered ; judiciously compiled, and free from that great mass of useless matter, which swells our English Hackluyt and Purchas ; much more complete and full than the Latin de Brye, and in fine, the noblest work of this nature. "
" The publication of Ramusio may be said to open an era in the literary history of Voyages and Navigation. Instead of accounts carelessly copied and translated from previous collections, perpetuating errors and anachronisms, we find in this valuable work, original narratives which betray the hand of a scholar of great critical acumen. Nor should we forger that we are indebted to Ramusio for the preservation of accounts of voyages of the utmost importance to the student of American history ; and did his work contain only the " Relatione d'un gentilhuomo del Sig. Fernando Cortese, " and the first voyage of Jacques Cartier to Canada, the two capital relations would entitle the Raccolta to a prominent place in any American library " (Harrisse, Bibliotheca Americana Vetustissima).
Les cartes ont été attribuées au grand cartographe italien Giacomo Gastaldi, le tuteur des enfants de Ramusio. Burden 34 : Universale della parte del mondo movamente ritrovata : " This is the first American map to include any of the names from the travels of Francisco Vasquez de Coronado, the first European to travel extensively the south-western part of North America " ;
Burden 35 : La Nuova Francia : " the first map devoted to New England and New France, the latter name being used here for the first time " ;
Betz 4 : " It is the first printed map of Africa in a book to show a southbound river ; the Zembere ... [it] also shows for the first time on a printed map of the entire continent, the island of Madagascar ".
L'ouvrage est en outre orné d'initiales historiées et de gravures dans le texte et à pleine page montrant la faune et la flore du nouveau monde, ainsi que les coutumes des indiens.
Borba de Moraes (II : 698-99) : " we are indebted to Ramusio for the preservation of accounts of... great importance to the history of Brazilian navigation ".
Précieux exemplaire à grandes marges (hauteur : 328 mm) conservé dans ses élégantes reliures uniformes du xviiiè siècle à provenance comtale : Francis de Astolphy et Comtesse de Clercy au Château de Baromesnil près d'Eu.
3 folio volumes [335 x 223 mm] p. d. t. on the spine, [4], 34 ll., 3 double-page maps, (num. 394) ; [2], 28 ll. 156 ll. ; [6], 36 ll. 430 ll. 7 double-page maps [396] ; leaves 108 and 109 of the first volume calligraphed in the eighteenth century replace the original missing leaves. Full ivory vellum, spine ribbed, title page in full gold lettering, edges blued. Antique binding circa 1740.
First edition of volume II, third enlarged edition of volumes I and III, rare in uniform antique binding. Ramusio's Viaggi are always or almost always composed of volumes of different editions.
Thus the copy offered in catalog 180 of one of the major international bookstores published on June 18, 2019 at a price of $95,000 was described as follows:
" First editions of volumes II and III, third edition of volume I.
Folio. Three volumes. 3 folding plates in volume I, 7 double-page maps in vol. III, numerous woodcut illustrations, maps, and plans. Vol. I title and last leaf stained and repaired, e5-6 supplied ; Volume II quire H supplied. Early blind-paneled calf, minor restoration, early manuscript paper label at foot of spine. Some browning, staining, and spotting, some dampstaining, minor worning. Lower portion of Western Hemisphere map trimmed and supplied in manuscript. An especially handsome and frest set. "
"A valuable collection that deserves to be highly sought after by travel collectors" (Leclerc 484, for a 1554-83-65 copy).
Sabin 67731 for volume I, 67737 for volume II and 67740 for volume III; Harrisse 304; Church 99.
This seminal work of sixteenth-century travel literature is arguably the most important collection of travels and expeditions ever published.
It opened a new era in travel literature.
" This is one of the earliest and most important collections of voyages and travels, and may be said to have opened a new era in the literary history of voyages and navigation. This work… was the first great systematic collection that had been so far published ". (Hill 1418).
" Ramusio, who truly earned the sobriquet of the Italian Hakluyt, was preeminent as an editor ; he handled his material with great skill and produced a collection of unique value. " (Penrose, Travel and Discovery in the Renaissance, 140-1620, p. 306).
The first volume primarily deals with Africa and South Asia, the second explores central Asia and Russia, while the author devotes the whole of the 3rd volume to a detailed description of America, incorporating accounts by Peter Martyr; Oviedo, Cortes, Cabeza de Vaca, Guzman, Ulloa, Coronado, Fray Marcos di Niza, Xerez and Verrazano. The last part contains the first publication of Jacques Cartier's discoveries in Canada.
The 10 superb double-page maps illustrating this collection represent America, New England, Canada, Brazil, Africa, Japan... and are of the utmost importance.
This classic in the history of exploration includes : the first printings of the description of presentday New York by Verrazzano, the first European to see the harbor ; Cartier's account of his pioneering inland exploration of the continent ; numerous maps and views of fundamental importance in the cartography of the New World ; and most important, the most complete and most influential text of Marco Polo's book of his travels.
Ramusio (1485-1557), the great Venetian humanist, began corresponding with fellow humanist scholars, explorers, and travelers as early as 1525 in order to gather accounts of the Age of Exploration. In 1548 he began to assemble the work, which was first printed in 1550 (vol. I), 1556 (vol. III) and 1559 (the delayed Vol. II). Numerous revisions and reprints followed, and Ramusio spawned countless imitators and successors such as Hakluyt, Purchas, De Bry, and others.
John Locke declared that " Ramusio's collection of voyages and travels [is] the most perfect work of that nature extant in any language whatsoever : containing all the discoveries to the east, west, north, and south ; with full descriptions of all the countries discovered ; judiciously compiled, and free from that great mass of useless matter, which swells our English Hackluyt and Purchas ; much more complete and full than the Latin de Brye, and in fine, the noblest work of this nature. "
" The publication of Ramusio may be said to open an era in the literary history of Voyages and Navigation. Instead of accounts carelessly copied and translated from previous collections, perpetuating errors and anachronisms, we find in this valuable work, original narratives which betray the hand of a scholar of great critical acumen. Nor should we forget that we are indebted to Ramusio for the preservation of accounts of voyages of the utmost importance to the student of American history ; and did his work contain only the " Relatione d'un gentilhuomo del Sig. Fernando Cortese, " and the first voyage of Jacques Cartier to Canada, the two capital relations would entitle the Raccolta to a prominent place in any American library " (Harrisse, Bibliotheca Americana Vetustissima).
The maps were attributed to the great Italian cartographer Giacomo Gastaldi, the tutor of Ramusio's children. Burden 34: Universale della parte del mondo movamente ritrovata : " This is the first American map to include any of the names from the travels of Francisco Vasquez de Coronado, the first European to travel extensively the south-western part of North America " ;
Burden 35 : La Nuova Francia : " the first map devoted to New England and New France, the latter name being used here for the first time " ;
Betz 4 : " It is the first printed map of Africa in a book to show a southbound river ; the Zembere ... [it] also shows for the first time on a printed map of the entire continent, the island of Madagascar ".
The work is furthermore decorated with historiated initials and engravings in the text and on the full page showing the fauna and flora of the new world, as well as the customs of the Indians.
Borba de Moraes (II : 698-99) : " we are indebted to Ramusio for the preservation of accounts of... great importance to the history of Brazilian navigation ".
A precious wide-margined copy (height : 328 mm) preserved in its elegant uniform eighteenth century bindings with a countal provenance : Francis de Astolphy and Comtesse de Clercy at the Château de Baromesnil near Eu.
Français
Venetia, Stamperia de Giunti. 1563, 1559, (1558 au colophon) & 1606.
3 volumes in-folio p. d. t. au dos, [4], 34 ff., 3 cartes à double page, (num. 394) ; [2], 28 ff., 156 ff. ; [6], 36 ff., 430 ff., 7 cartes à double page [396] ; les feuillets 108 et 109 du tome premier calligraphiés au xviiiè siècle remplacent les feuillets d'origine manquants.
Plein vélin ivoire, dos à nerfs, pièce de titre en lettres plein or, tranches bleutées. Reliure ancienne vers 1740.
335 x 223 mm.
Première édition du volume II, troisième édition augmentée des volumes I et III, rare en reliure ancienne uniforme. Les Voyages de Ramusio sont toujours ou presque composés de volumes d'édition différentes.
Ainsi l'exemplaire proposé dans le catalogue 180 de l'une des principales librairies internationales paru le 18 juin 2019 au prix de $95,000 était-il décrit ainsi :
" First editions of volumes II and II, third edition of volume I.
Folio. Three volumes. 3 folding plates in volume I, 7 double-page maps in vol. III, numerous woodcut illustrations, maps, and plans. Vol. I title and last leaf stained and repaired, e5-6 supplied ; Volume II quire H supplied. Early blind-paneled calf, minor restoration, early manuscript paper label at foot of spine. Some browning, staining, and spotting, some dampstaining, minor worning. Lower portion of Western Hemisphere map trimmed and supplied in manuscript. An especially handsome and frest set. "
" Précieuse collection qui mérite d'être très recherchée par les collectionneurs de voyages " (Leclerc 484, pour un exemplaire de 1554-83-65).
Sabin 67731 pour le tome I, 67737 pour le tome II et 67740 pour le tome III ; Harrisse 304 ; Church 99.
Cette œuvre phare de la littérature de Voyage du xviè siècle est sans doute la plus importante collection de Voyages et d'expéditions jamais publiée.
Elle ouvrit une nouvelle ère dans la littérature de voyage.
" This is one of the earliest and most important collections of voyages and travels, and may be said to have opened a new era in the literary history of voyages and navigation. This work… was the first great systematic collection that had so far appeared ". (Hill 1418).
" Ramusio, who truly earned the sobriquet of the Italian Hakluyt, was preeminent as an editor ; he handled his material with great skill and produced a collection of unique value. " (Penrose, Travel and Discovery in the Renaissance, 140-1620, p. 306).
Le premier volume a principalement trait à l'Afrique et à l'Asie du Sud, le second explore l'Asie centrale et la Russie tandis que l'auteur consacre l'intégralité du 3e volume à une description détaillée de l'Amérique en intégrant des récits de Peter Martyr ; Oviedo, Cortes, Cabeza de Vaca, Guzman, Ulloa, Coronado, Fray Marcos di Niza, Xerez et Verrazano. La dernière partie comporte la première publication des découvertes de Jacques Cartier au Canada.
Les 10 superbes cartes sur double-page illustrant cette collection représentent l'Amérique, la Nouvelle-Angleterre, le Canada, le Brésil, l'Afrique, le Japon... et sont de la plus grande importance.
This classic in the history of exploration includes : the first printings of the description of presentday New York by Verrazzano, the first European to see the harbor ; Cartier's account of his pioneering inland exploration of the continent ; numerous maps and views of fundamental importance in the cartography of the New World ; and most important, the most complete and most influential text of Marco Polo's book of his travels.
Ramusio (1485-1557), the great Venetian humanist, began corresponding with fellow humanist scholars, explorers, and travelers and travelers as early as 1525 in order to gather accounts of the Age of Exploration. In 1548 he began to assemble the work, which was first printed in 1550 (vol. I), 1556 (vol. III) and 1559 (the delayed Vol. II). Numerous revisions and reprints followed, and Ramusio spawned countless imitators and successors such as Hakluyt, Purchas, De Bry, and others.
John Locke declared that " Ramusio's collection of voyages and travels [is] the most perfect work of that nature extant in any language whatsoever : containing all the discoveries to the east, west, north, and south ; with full descriptions of all the countries discovered ; judiciously compiled, and free from that great mass of useless matter, which swells our English Hackluyt and Purchas ; much more complete and full than the Latin de Brye, and in fine, the noblest work of this nature. "
" The publication of Ramusio may be said to open an era in the literary history of Voyages and Navigation. Instead of accounts carelessly copied and translated from previous collections, perpetuating errors and anachronisms, we find in this valuable work, original narratives which betray the hand of a scholar of great critical acumen. Nor should we forger that we are indebted to Ramusio for the preservation of accounts of voyages of the utmost importance to the student of American history ; and did his work contain only the " Relatione d'un gentilhuomo del Sig. Fernando Cortese, " and the first voyage of Jacques Cartier to Canada, the two capital relations would entitle the Raccolta to a prominent place in any American library " (Harrisse, Bibliotheca Americana Vetustissima).
Les cartes ont été attribuées au grand cartographe italien Giacomo Gastaldi, le tuteur des enfants de Ramusio. Burden 34 : Universale della parte del mondo movamente ritrovata : " This is the first American map to include any of the names from the travels of Francisco Vasquez de Coronado, the first European to travel extensively the south-western part of North America " ;
Burden 35 : La Nuova Francia : " the first map devoted to New England and New France, the latter name being used here for the first time " ;
Betz 4 : " It is the first printed map of Africa in a book to show a southbound river ; the Zembere ... [it] also shows for the first time on a printed map of the entire continent, the island of Madagascar ".
L'ouvrage est en outre orné d'initiales historiées et de gravures dans le texte et à pleine page montrant la faune et la flore du nouveau monde, ainsi que les coutumes des indiens.
Borba de Moraes (II : 698-99) : " we are indebted to Ramusio for the preservation of accounts of... great importance to the history of Brazilian navigation ".
Précieux exemplaire à grandes marges (hauteur : 328 mm) conservé dans ses élégantes reliures uniformes du xviiiè siècle à provenance comtale : Francis de Astolphy et Comtesse de Clercy au Château de Baromesnil près d'Eu.
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