ORDOÑEZ DE CEBALLOS, Pedro (ca. 1545-ca. 1630). Viage del mundo . Madrid: Luis Sanchez, 1614. 4 o (191 x 137 mm). Collation: 2 8 A-Nn 8 Oo 4 Pp 2. 301 leaves (of 304, lacking L2, L3 and Y8). Title with large woodcut coat-of-arms of the dedicatee Don Antonio Davila y Toledo, bishop of Jaen, woodcut portrait of the author on 8v, woodcut initials. (Lacks engraved portrait and 3 text leaves as above, title-leaf laid down with loss to 3 letters, supplied in manuscript facsimile, holes to last leaf with a few letters supplied in facsimile, soiling, occasional dampstaining.) Early 20th-century blue morocco gilt, gilt edges. FIRST EDITION, EXTREMELY RARE, relating the author's travels in Latin America, China, the Philippines, and Africa. The greater part of the work is devoted to Spanish South America and includes extensive accounts of the Andean regions as far south as Chile. Chapters 10 and 11 are devoted to Bermuda, making this one of the earliest accounts of the island, whose first permanent European colony had been established in 1612. According to ABPC, only one copy of this edition, also imperfect, has been sold at auction in the past 50 years. Alden and Landis 614/82; JCB (3) II:104-5; Medina, Biblioteca Hispano-Americana 1874; Palau 203651; Sabin 57524.
ORDOÑEZ DE CEBALLOS, Pedro (ca. 1545-ca. 1630). Viage del mundo . Madrid: Luis Sanchez, 1614. 4 o (191 x 137 mm). Collation: 2 8 A-Nn 8 Oo 4 Pp 2. 301 leaves (of 304, lacking L2, L3 and Y8). Title with large woodcut coat-of-arms of the dedicatee Don Antonio Davila y Toledo, bishop of Jaen, woodcut portrait of the author on 8v, woodcut initials. (Lacks engraved portrait and 3 text leaves as above, title-leaf laid down with loss to 3 letters, supplied in manuscript facsimile, holes to last leaf with a few letters supplied in facsimile, soiling, occasional dampstaining.) Early 20th-century blue morocco gilt, gilt edges. FIRST EDITION, EXTREMELY RARE, relating the author's travels in Latin America, China, the Philippines, and Africa. The greater part of the work is devoted to Spanish South America and includes extensive accounts of the Andean regions as far south as Chile. Chapters 10 and 11 are devoted to Bermuda, making this one of the earliest accounts of the island, whose first permanent European colony had been established in 1612. According to ABPC, only one copy of this edition, also imperfect, has been sold at auction in the past 50 years. Alden and Landis 614/82; JCB (3) II:104-5; Medina, Biblioteca Hispano-Americana 1874; Palau 203651; Sabin 57524.
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