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Auction archive: Lot number 85

MARTYR, Peter [Pietro Martire d'Anghiera] (1457-1526) De reb...

Books & Manuscripts
15 Nov 2011
Estimate
US$8,000 - US$12,000
Price realised:
US$8,125
Auction archive: Lot number 85

MARTYR, Peter [Pietro Martire d'Anghiera] (1457-1526) De reb...

Books & Manuscripts
15 Nov 2011
Estimate
US$8,000 - US$12,000
Price realised:
US$8,125
Beschreibung:

MARTYR, Peter [Pietro Martire d'Anghiera] (1457-1526). De rebus Oceanicis & Orbe nouo decades tres... Eiusdem praeterea legationis Babylonicae liber tres. Basel: Bebel, 1533.
MARTYR, Peter [Pietro Martire d'Anghiera] (1457-1526). De rebus Oceanicis & Orbe nouo decades tres... Eiusdem praeterea legationis Babylonicae liber tres. Basel: Bebel, 1533. 2 o (315 x 208 mm). Woodcut printer's device on title and last leaf, numerous woodcut initials. Contemporary blind-stamped pigskin over wooden boards (clasps missing, light worming). Provenance : David Schegk (ownership inscription dated 22 Aug 1574); Heinrich Nuschelen (signature, dated 1718); "Spes.Mea.Deus" (large ink stamp with fleur-de-lys and pine cones on title); Friedrich Hurter, Schaffhausen (1787-1865) historian ("Biblioth. Fridr. Hurter Scaphus"[ensis, i.e. of Schaffhausen] ink stamp on verso of title); Benjamn Vicuna Mackenna (1831-1886) a Chilean writer, journalist, historian, politician and collector (his ink stamp on title); Frederik Muller, Amsterdam (bookseller's label on front free endpaper). Early edition, of this HISTORY OF THE DISCOVERY AND CONQUEST OF THE NEW WORLD. Anghiera, known as Peter Martyr, was the first writer to emphasis the importance of the discovery of America by his countryman Columbus. He was a member of the Council for the Indies at the Court of Chalres V in Madrid, where he was able to obtained first-hand information from Columbus, Cortis, Carbot, Vespucci, Magellan, Vasco de Gama, and other explorers and conquerors. This work contains the first three Decades and an abridgment of the fourth. The third work in this Sammelband. Adams M-754; Church 65; Borba de Moraes I:531; Sabin 1557. [ Bound with :] HUTTICH, Johann (ca 1480-1544) and Simon GRYNAEUS (1493-1541). Novus orbis regionum ac insularum veteribus incognitarum. Basel: Hervagius, 1532. 2 o ( 304 x 217 mm). Woodcut printer's device on title and last leaf woodcut illustrations in text. FIRST EDITION, containing voyages of Cadamosto, the three voyages of Columbus, Nino, Pinzon, Vespucci, Cabral, and others. Without the world map. Adams G-1334: Sabin 34100. [ Bound With :] FLORUS, Lucius Annaeus. De Gestis Romanorum Libri Quatuor. Basel: Hervagius, 1532. 2 o . Woodcut printer's device on title and last leaf, woodcut initials (some minor worming). Later edition of this classic Roman history. Adams F-642. [ Bound With :] [COLUMBUS, Christopher]. ROBERTUS MONACHUS, Abbot of Saint-Rémy, Rheims. Bellum Christianorum Principum... Christophorus Columbus de prima insularum, in mari Indico sitarum, lustratione, quae sub rege Ferdinando Hispaniarum facta est. Basel: Heinrich Petri, August 1533. 7 parts in one, 2 o (315 x 208 mm). 9-line and smaller historiated woodcut initials, woodcut printer's device on verso of final leaf (recto blank). Provenance : some early ink marginalia. FIRST EDITION. The fourth of the seven texts in this volume is a reprint of Columbus's letter to Rafael Sanchez in Cosco's Latin translation (pp. 116-121). "This is the edition from which most early writers quote" (Church). Adams R-612; Alden 533/6; Church I,66; Sabin 72023. [ Bound With :] BIONDO, Flavio (1392-1463). Decadum Blondi epitome, qua omnis ab inclinato Romanorum imperio historia, quae coepit fere anno Christi quadringentesimo septimo, per mille et amplius annos, miro compendio citra obscuritatem tamen, complectitur. Edited by Michael Isingrinius. Basel: Bebel, 1533. 2 o . Woodcut printer's device on title and last leaf. Provenance : some early ink marginalia. Later edition of Biondo's Roman history. Adams B-2074.

Auction archive: Lot number 85
Auction:
Datum:
15 Nov 2011
Auction house:
Christie's
15 November 2011, New York, Rockefeller Center
Beschreibung:

MARTYR, Peter [Pietro Martire d'Anghiera] (1457-1526). De rebus Oceanicis & Orbe nouo decades tres... Eiusdem praeterea legationis Babylonicae liber tres. Basel: Bebel, 1533.
MARTYR, Peter [Pietro Martire d'Anghiera] (1457-1526). De rebus Oceanicis & Orbe nouo decades tres... Eiusdem praeterea legationis Babylonicae liber tres. Basel: Bebel, 1533. 2 o (315 x 208 mm). Woodcut printer's device on title and last leaf, numerous woodcut initials. Contemporary blind-stamped pigskin over wooden boards (clasps missing, light worming). Provenance : David Schegk (ownership inscription dated 22 Aug 1574); Heinrich Nuschelen (signature, dated 1718); "Spes.Mea.Deus" (large ink stamp with fleur-de-lys and pine cones on title); Friedrich Hurter, Schaffhausen (1787-1865) historian ("Biblioth. Fridr. Hurter Scaphus"[ensis, i.e. of Schaffhausen] ink stamp on verso of title); Benjamn Vicuna Mackenna (1831-1886) a Chilean writer, journalist, historian, politician and collector (his ink stamp on title); Frederik Muller, Amsterdam (bookseller's label on front free endpaper). Early edition, of this HISTORY OF THE DISCOVERY AND CONQUEST OF THE NEW WORLD. Anghiera, known as Peter Martyr, was the first writer to emphasis the importance of the discovery of America by his countryman Columbus. He was a member of the Council for the Indies at the Court of Chalres V in Madrid, where he was able to obtained first-hand information from Columbus, Cortis, Carbot, Vespucci, Magellan, Vasco de Gama, and other explorers and conquerors. This work contains the first three Decades and an abridgment of the fourth. The third work in this Sammelband. Adams M-754; Church 65; Borba de Moraes I:531; Sabin 1557. [ Bound with :] HUTTICH, Johann (ca 1480-1544) and Simon GRYNAEUS (1493-1541). Novus orbis regionum ac insularum veteribus incognitarum. Basel: Hervagius, 1532. 2 o ( 304 x 217 mm). Woodcut printer's device on title and last leaf woodcut illustrations in text. FIRST EDITION, containing voyages of Cadamosto, the three voyages of Columbus, Nino, Pinzon, Vespucci, Cabral, and others. Without the world map. Adams G-1334: Sabin 34100. [ Bound With :] FLORUS, Lucius Annaeus. De Gestis Romanorum Libri Quatuor. Basel: Hervagius, 1532. 2 o . Woodcut printer's device on title and last leaf, woodcut initials (some minor worming). Later edition of this classic Roman history. Adams F-642. [ Bound With :] [COLUMBUS, Christopher]. ROBERTUS MONACHUS, Abbot of Saint-Rémy, Rheims. Bellum Christianorum Principum... Christophorus Columbus de prima insularum, in mari Indico sitarum, lustratione, quae sub rege Ferdinando Hispaniarum facta est. Basel: Heinrich Petri, August 1533. 7 parts in one, 2 o (315 x 208 mm). 9-line and smaller historiated woodcut initials, woodcut printer's device on verso of final leaf (recto blank). Provenance : some early ink marginalia. FIRST EDITION. The fourth of the seven texts in this volume is a reprint of Columbus's letter to Rafael Sanchez in Cosco's Latin translation (pp. 116-121). "This is the edition from which most early writers quote" (Church). Adams R-612; Alden 533/6; Church I,66; Sabin 72023. [ Bound With :] BIONDO, Flavio (1392-1463). Decadum Blondi epitome, qua omnis ab inclinato Romanorum imperio historia, quae coepit fere anno Christi quadringentesimo septimo, per mille et amplius annos, miro compendio citra obscuritatem tamen, complectitur. Edited by Michael Isingrinius. Basel: Bebel, 1533. 2 o . Woodcut printer's device on title and last leaf. Provenance : some early ink marginalia. Later edition of Biondo's Roman history. Adams B-2074.

Auction archive: Lot number 85
Auction:
Datum:
15 Nov 2011
Auction house:
Christie's
15 November 2011, New York, Rockefeller Center
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