GALVANO, Antonio (or GALVAO, d.1557). The Discoveries of the World from their first originall unto the yeere of our Lord 1555. Edited and translated by Richard Hakluyt (ca 1552-1616). London: [Eliot Court Press for] G. Bishop 1601.
GALVANO, Antonio (or GALVAO, d.1557). The Discoveries of the World from their first originall unto the yeere of our Lord 1555. Edited and translated by Richard Hakluyt (ca 1552-1616). London: [Eliot Court Press for] G. Bishop 1601. Small 4 o (182 x 135 mm). Title with broad floral broader, 3 ornamental woodcut initials, decorative head-piece ornament repeated once. (Lacks terminal blank O4, some pale browning.) Early 19th-century crimson straight-grained morocco, decorated in blind, black morocco lettering piece on spine, edges gilt (some minor rubbing at extremities); cloth folding case. Provenance : Henry Cunliffe (19th-century bookplate and later bookplate dated 1926); Pierre S. duPont III (his sale Christie's New York, 8 October 1991, lot 112). FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. "The worke though small in bulke containith so much rare and profitable matter, as I know not where to seeke the like, within so narrow and streite a compasse" (Richard Hakluyt, "The Epistle Dedicatorie," p.[4]). Church notes that the work gives "a valuable chronological list of all the discoveries, ancient and modern, made down to the year 1555. The writer, who may be styled the founder of historical geography, spent the early part of his life in the East Indies, where he distinguished himself in an expedition which reduced the Moluccas to Portuguese rule. He includes his own experiences in the latter part of this work, which was first published in Portuguese at Lisbon in 1563, a few years after the author's death. The original edition was so rare even in Hakluyt's time that he says he could never get sight of a copy. There is a copy in the British Museum, and also one in the John Carter Brown Library" (Church). VERY RARE: according to American Book Prices Current , this copy is the only complete copy to be sold at auction since the Boies Penrose copy (sold 7 June 1971, and an inferior copy with fore-margins cut close with loss of letters). This copy was the last complete copy on the market when it appeared in the duPont sale in 1991. Alden & Landis 601/34; Borba de Moraes I:2; Church 323; Sabin 26469; STC 11543.
GALVANO, Antonio (or GALVAO, d.1557). The Discoveries of the World from their first originall unto the yeere of our Lord 1555. Edited and translated by Richard Hakluyt (ca 1552-1616). London: [Eliot Court Press for] G. Bishop 1601.
GALVANO, Antonio (or GALVAO, d.1557). The Discoveries of the World from their first originall unto the yeere of our Lord 1555. Edited and translated by Richard Hakluyt (ca 1552-1616). London: [Eliot Court Press for] G. Bishop 1601. Small 4 o (182 x 135 mm). Title with broad floral broader, 3 ornamental woodcut initials, decorative head-piece ornament repeated once. (Lacks terminal blank O4, some pale browning.) Early 19th-century crimson straight-grained morocco, decorated in blind, black morocco lettering piece on spine, edges gilt (some minor rubbing at extremities); cloth folding case. Provenance : Henry Cunliffe (19th-century bookplate and later bookplate dated 1926); Pierre S. duPont III (his sale Christie's New York, 8 October 1991, lot 112). FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. "The worke though small in bulke containith so much rare and profitable matter, as I know not where to seeke the like, within so narrow and streite a compasse" (Richard Hakluyt, "The Epistle Dedicatorie," p.[4]). Church notes that the work gives "a valuable chronological list of all the discoveries, ancient and modern, made down to the year 1555. The writer, who may be styled the founder of historical geography, spent the early part of his life in the East Indies, where he distinguished himself in an expedition which reduced the Moluccas to Portuguese rule. He includes his own experiences in the latter part of this work, which was first published in Portuguese at Lisbon in 1563, a few years after the author's death. The original edition was so rare even in Hakluyt's time that he says he could never get sight of a copy. There is a copy in the British Museum, and also one in the John Carter Brown Library" (Church). VERY RARE: according to American Book Prices Current , this copy is the only complete copy to be sold at auction since the Boies Penrose copy (sold 7 June 1971, and an inferior copy with fore-margins cut close with loss of letters). This copy was the last complete copy on the market when it appeared in the duPont sale in 1991. Alden & Landis 601/34; Borba de Moraes I:2; Church 323; Sabin 26469; STC 11543.
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