VENEZUELA] WELSER, MARCUS. Opera Historica et Philologia. Nuremburg: Wolfgang Mauritii, 1682. First edition. Contemporary vellum, red spine label. 12 3/8 x 7 3/4 inches (31.5 x 20 cm); with engraved frontispiece portrait, 2 double-page maps (one of Venezuela), many engraved illustrations and maps within text, one plate laid-in, retains half-title. Gouge to spine and chipping to label, some soiling, very clean within, a good copy of a rare work. This is an interesting and diverse work in which, according to Sabin, "The American interest lies in the 'Vita' of the author which includes an account of his family, the merchant house of Welser. Under authority from Charles V they governed Venezuela for their own profit from 1528-1555." Of the additional illustration, there is a strip map of the 12th century Roman map Tabula ... Peutingerorum, in twelve parts interrupted by explanatory text. Also of note are a series of twenty-five pages of acrostic verse, versus intexti taken from the Carmina of Publilius Optatianus Porphyrius. These exceptional examples of wordplay, printed in red and black, are a remarkable tour-de-force of typesetting. Sabin 102615. C
VENEZUELA] WELSER, MARCUS. Opera Historica et Philologia. Nuremburg: Wolfgang Mauritii, 1682. First edition. Contemporary vellum, red spine label. 12 3/8 x 7 3/4 inches (31.5 x 20 cm); with engraved frontispiece portrait, 2 double-page maps (one of Venezuela), many engraved illustrations and maps within text, one plate laid-in, retains half-title. Gouge to spine and chipping to label, some soiling, very clean within, a good copy of a rare work. This is an interesting and diverse work in which, according to Sabin, "The American interest lies in the 'Vita' of the author which includes an account of his family, the merchant house of Welser. Under authority from Charles V they governed Venezuela for their own profit from 1528-1555." Of the additional illustration, there is a strip map of the 12th century Roman map Tabula ... Peutingerorum, in twelve parts interrupted by explanatory text. Also of note are a series of twenty-five pages of acrostic verse, versus intexti taken from the Carmina of Publilius Optatianus Porphyrius. These exceptional examples of wordplay, printed in red and black, are a remarkable tour-de-force of typesetting. Sabin 102615. C
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