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Discovery and exploration, Voyages and travels, Collections, Discoveries in geography, Découverte et exploration, Voyages, Early works to 1800, Ouvrages avant 1800, Early accounts to 1600, Italian, Découvertes géographiques, Collected works, Glossaries, vocabularies, Languages, Indians of North America, Wyandot language, Indian linguistics, Description and travelPlaces
America, Amérique, Africa, Asia, East Indies, Iran, Japan, Middle East, RussiaBook Details
Edition Notes
The 3rd ed. of the 3rd vol., first published in 1556; see Sabin.
The 10 leaves of plates comprise 5 double-page woodcut maps (America; bird's-eye view of Cuzco; New France; Brazil; Sumatra).
Getty copy lacks 2 of the 7 double-page maps called for by Sabin: part of Africa & Taprobana, the Land of Hochelaga in New France.
Arms of Christopher Columbus, leaf 69v.
Giunti device on t.p.; variant incorporating initials L.A. at colophon. Head-piece. Historiated and foliated initials.
Leaves [376]r and 385v: vocabulary of the Huron language.
Signatures: *⁶ B-D⁸ E-F⁶ ²A-2V⁸ 2X⁴ 2Y-3E⁸ 3F¹⁰.
Sabin 67742
On t.p. of Getty copy the words "volume terzo" have been effaced.
Binding: old goatskin, rebacked retaining portions of original backstrip. Original backstrip gold tooled, including brief author & title.
Centered on front pastedown is engraved port. of Annibale Albani, (1682-1751); image 13.5 x 8.2 cm.; legend: D:ANNIBAL ABBAS ALBANVS. At lower left-hand corner of front pastedown is bookplate of Francis Augustus MacNutt.
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