MEXIA, PEDRO. 1496-1552.Dialoghi di Pietro Messia. Venice: Plinio Pietrasanta, 1557. 4to (210 x 151 mm). Woodcut printer's device on title page, woodcut headers and initials. Modern quarter morocco and marbled boards. Light soiling around edges, paper repair to top edge of title page and first text leaf. FIRST ITALIAN EDITION, translated from the 1547 Spanish first edition by Alfonso D'Ulloa. The dialogues deal with astronomical topics, gastronomy, and medicine. Mexia was was among the first scientific minds of the Renaissance to write for a popular audience. He describes Magellan's first circumnavigation of the earth — Mexia himself witnessed Magellan's fleet leaving Sanlúcar de Barrameda in 1519 and returning in 1522. Brunet III, 1689 (1547 edition).
MEXIA, PEDRO. 1496-1552.Dialoghi di Pietro Messia. Venice: Plinio Pietrasanta, 1557. 4to (210 x 151 mm). Woodcut printer's device on title page, woodcut headers and initials. Modern quarter morocco and marbled boards. Light soiling around edges, paper repair to top edge of title page and first text leaf. FIRST ITALIAN EDITION, translated from the 1547 Spanish first edition by Alfonso D'Ulloa. The dialogues deal with astronomical topics, gastronomy, and medicine. Mexia was was among the first scientific minds of the Renaissance to write for a popular audience. He describes Magellan's first circumnavigation of the earth — Mexia himself witnessed Magellan's fleet leaving Sanlúcar de Barrameda in 1519 and returning in 1522. Brunet III, 1689 (1547 edition).
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