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I. AMERICA
1 AENEAS SYLVIUS PICCOLOMINI, postea Pius II Pontifex Maximus. Historia
rerum ubique gestarum, cum locorum descriptione. Venice, Johannes de Co-
lonia et Johannes Manthen, 1477. Fol. Rom. 35 lines, 106 leaves, the first blank,
Rubricated, with capitals supplied in red and blue. Boards. 600.—
Hain*-Cop. 257. Proctor 4322. Brit. Mus. Cat. V, 233. Harrisse, Bibliotheca Americana
Vetustissima, Additions, p. XV. EDITIO PRINCEPS.
The rare first edition of this important historical and geographical work. It contains a
compendious description of Asia. The introduction includes some chapters on the division of the
earth into four islands, the possibility of circumnavigating the combined continents of Europe,
Asia and Africa, and accounts of the climate of the tropics and of the arctic regions.
This work had the greatest influence on COLUMBUS and the
other explorers of his time. Columbus must have used this book himself because
we find, in the Bibliotheca Columbina at Sevilla, a copy of this edition coming from Colum-
bus's library. That copy contains the famous letter by Toscanelli to Fernam Martinez in 1474 in
the handwriting of Christopher Columbus. See Harrisse, Additions, p. XV—XVIII, where
the complete letter is reproduced.
An extraordinarily large copy in an unusually faultless condition.
2 Barlaeus, Casp. Rerum par octennium in Brasilia et alibi gestarum, ■ ub
praefectura Comitis J. Mauritii Nassaviae historia. Ed sec. Cui access. G u-
liel. Pisonis tractatus. 1. de aeribus, aquis et locis in Brasilia. 2. de
arundine saccharifera. 3. de melle silvestri. 4. de radice altili Mandihoca. Cle-
ve, Tob. Silberling, 1660. 8vo. W i t h n icely engr. title, portr. ofMau-
ritz of Nassau (Flinck p., C. V. Dalen jr. sc.), a plate of arms, 3 fine
double-page maps and 6 plates of views. Blank vellum. 120.—
Rare 8 vo edition, enlarged with the tracts of Piso, of this im-
portant work on the history and topography of Brazil in the 17th century, the leading
authority upon the events of that period and country.
The nice plates represent views of Pernambuco, Loanda, Mauritiopolis,
etc. and a digram of an eclipse of the sun. Pp. 474—91 comprise a Chilian vocabulary.
Fine, well-preserved copy. On pp. 209—10 a very small hole.
3 (Gobea, Pedro, de Victoria). Argonauticon Americanorum sive historiae peri-
culorum Petri de Victoria ac sociorum eius 11. XV. (Transl. in Latin by) J o a.
B i s s e 1 i u s, S. J. Monachii 1647. 12mo. With frontispiece and a map
of America. Sewn. 50.—
Palau I, 230: ,,Esta primera edicion es rara.“
An interesting description of a voyage from Spain to Panama and thence to the
coast of Peru. The account includes descriptions of the manners and customs, in Mexico,
the Philippines, Cuba, Jamaica, Haiti, Chile, Cusco &c. — Good copy.
4 Las Casas, Bartolome de. Umbstandige warhafftige Beschreibung Der Indiani-
schen Landern, so vor diesem von den Spaniern eingenommen und verwiist
worden. N. p. (Heidelberg, W. Walter), 1665. 4to. 2 leaves, 119 pp. With en-
graved title-border and 17 half-page copper-engravings
after Jod. de WinghebyDeBry. Bds. 60.—
A rare German edition of the celebrated ,,Brevissima relacion“ of Las Casas, the com-
panion of Columbus. A vivid description of the frightful atrocities prac-
tised by the Spaniards in America. Adorned with the engravings by De Bry. —
Slightly stained.
GILHOFER & RANSCHBURG, VIENNA I, BOGNERGASSE 2
1 AENEAS SYLVIUS PICCOLOMINI, postea Pius II Pontifex Maximus. Historia
rerum ubique gestarum, cum locorum descriptione. Venice, Johannes de Co-
lonia et Johannes Manthen, 1477. Fol. Rom. 35 lines, 106 leaves, the first blank,
Rubricated, with capitals supplied in red and blue. Boards. 600.—
Hain*-Cop. 257. Proctor 4322. Brit. Mus. Cat. V, 233. Harrisse, Bibliotheca Americana
Vetustissima, Additions, p. XV. EDITIO PRINCEPS.
The rare first edition of this important historical and geographical work. It contains a
compendious description of Asia. The introduction includes some chapters on the division of the
earth into four islands, the possibility of circumnavigating the combined continents of Europe,
Asia and Africa, and accounts of the climate of the tropics and of the arctic regions.
This work had the greatest influence on COLUMBUS and the
other explorers of his time. Columbus must have used this book himself because
we find, in the Bibliotheca Columbina at Sevilla, a copy of this edition coming from Colum-
bus's library. That copy contains the famous letter by Toscanelli to Fernam Martinez in 1474 in
the handwriting of Christopher Columbus. See Harrisse, Additions, p. XV—XVIII, where
the complete letter is reproduced.
An extraordinarily large copy in an unusually faultless condition.
2 Barlaeus, Casp. Rerum par octennium in Brasilia et alibi gestarum, ■ ub
praefectura Comitis J. Mauritii Nassaviae historia. Ed sec. Cui access. G u-
liel. Pisonis tractatus. 1. de aeribus, aquis et locis in Brasilia. 2. de
arundine saccharifera. 3. de melle silvestri. 4. de radice altili Mandihoca. Cle-
ve, Tob. Silberling, 1660. 8vo. W i t h n icely engr. title, portr. ofMau-
ritz of Nassau (Flinck p., C. V. Dalen jr. sc.), a plate of arms, 3 fine
double-page maps and 6 plates of views. Blank vellum. 120.—
Rare 8 vo edition, enlarged with the tracts of Piso, of this im-
portant work on the history and topography of Brazil in the 17th century, the leading
authority upon the events of that period and country.
The nice plates represent views of Pernambuco, Loanda, Mauritiopolis,
etc. and a digram of an eclipse of the sun. Pp. 474—91 comprise a Chilian vocabulary.
Fine, well-preserved copy. On pp. 209—10 a very small hole.
3 (Gobea, Pedro, de Victoria). Argonauticon Americanorum sive historiae peri-
culorum Petri de Victoria ac sociorum eius 11. XV. (Transl. in Latin by) J o a.
B i s s e 1 i u s, S. J. Monachii 1647. 12mo. With frontispiece and a map
of America. Sewn. 50.—
Palau I, 230: ,,Esta primera edicion es rara.“
An interesting description of a voyage from Spain to Panama and thence to the
coast of Peru. The account includes descriptions of the manners and customs, in Mexico,
the Philippines, Cuba, Jamaica, Haiti, Chile, Cusco &c. — Good copy.
4 Las Casas, Bartolome de. Umbstandige warhafftige Beschreibung Der Indiani-
schen Landern, so vor diesem von den Spaniern eingenommen und verwiist
worden. N. p. (Heidelberg, W. Walter), 1665. 4to. 2 leaves, 119 pp. With en-
graved title-border and 17 half-page copper-engravings
after Jod. de WinghebyDeBry. Bds. 60.—
A rare German edition of the celebrated ,,Brevissima relacion“ of Las Casas, the com-
panion of Columbus. A vivid description of the frightful atrocities prac-
tised by the Spaniards in America. Adorned with the engravings by De Bry. —
Slightly stained.
GILHOFER & RANSCHBURG, VIENNA I, BOGNERGASSE 2
