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Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. SECOND EDITION, GREATLY EXPANDED. A fine, complete copy in 18th c. calfskin, rebacked, with some wear at the board edges. Title page lightly soiled, the outer corner and lower margin a bit ragged, a few light marginal stains in the text, some text on p 30 lightly printed. Light damp-staining at the beginning of the volume, heavier in gatherings B and C; small marginal wormhole to first 5 and last 2 leaves. Scattered light finger-soiling; last leaf verso soiled and lightly foxed. Text printed in black letter; woodcut illustrated initials. Illustrated with a woodcut of the South Pole showing "the order of the starres about the pole Antartike" on folio 436 verso. Provenance: bookplate of Thomas Pennant, 1726-1798, Welsh naturalist and travel writer. Complete copies are rare, especially in early bindings. The second (and best) edition of Richard Eden's translation of the first four books of Peter Martire d'Anghiera's "De Orbe Novo"(On the New World), only the third book in English to describe the Americas, here revised and greatly expanded by Richard Willes, who translated the remaining parts of d'Anghiera's original and added numerous additional travel accounts from the Americas, Asia, Africa and Europe. The book, with its accounts of the voyages and travels of Columbus and Magellan, and Cortes' conquest of Mexico, ignited English interest in exploration and colonization. The account of Magellan's circumnavigation of the globe is the first in English (as is the description of Japan). Among the other accounts are Frobisher's search for the Northwest Passage, travels to Persia by English merchants, and Ludovico de Varthema's travels to the Middle East and India in 1502-1507. Shakespeare likely derived the name of Setebos, the unseen god in "The Tempest", from Willes's translation of Magellan's account of the Tehuelche people of Patagonia. Peter Martyr occupied a position of unrivalled authority among the early historians of exploration. A member and official Chronicler of Charles V's Council of the Indies (Consejo de Indias), he knew Columbus and had direct access to the original documents of his voyage, as well as access to the documents from the voyages of da Gama, Cortés, Magellan, Cabot, and Vespucci. His "De Orbe Novo Decades", the first part of which was published in Latin at Alcalá in 1516, drew on this exceptional proximity to produce the first systematic history of the Americas. His works were "held in the highest esteem by his contemporaries and are indispensable as a primary source for the history of early European exploration of the Americas." (Hill) Richard Eden's translation of the first three Decades (and an abridgment of the fourth), published in 1555 as "The Decades of the Newe World", was a landmark in English publishing history. It made detailed knowledge of the New World available to English readers for the first time, contained the first publication in English of Magellan's circumnavigation of the globe, and helped to create a robust appetite for voyages of discovery among the English. Eden's "translations of the geographic works of other writers helped foster a spirit of overseas exploration in Tudor England. The new protector, the Earl of Northumberland, wished to challenge Spain's global empire and he encouraged publications that would help encourage such enterprise" (Hadfield). Eden was "the pioneer of British geographic research, the very first of our naval chroniclers, and the herald and forerunner of all our subsequent discoveries". (Arber) Following Eden's death in 1576, Willes undertook a thorough revision and vast expansion of the work, transforming the compilation into a comprehensive survey of the known world. In his preface, Willes explains that Eden had intended to augment his earlier translations "by putting thereunto in English Ludovico de Varthema's navigation into Egypt, Arabia, Siria, Persia, and India, with our Merchantes, Muscovian and Persian travelles: but death prevented his purpose." Willes reorganized the book to make.…

Hardcover. Condizione: see_description. The First "Learned and Accurate" Collection of Voyages in EnglishBy the First Author to Advocate a British Colony in North AmericaThis remarkable book stands as the first really important English language voyag. Small quarto. 17th-century paneled calf, red leather spine label, raised spine bands. Panels stamped in blind with fleuron at each corner. Hand-sewn headbands. Binding expertly restored, corners refurbished. A bit of surface crackling to the leather on boards. Text printed in blackletter. Decorative woodcut initials. Star chart on verso of folio 436: "The order of the starres about the pole Antartike." Ten leaves supplied in expert facsimile on old laid paper: Title leaf, 5 "epistle" or dedication leaves, 3 leaves of errata (ooo. iii - ooo. v) and 1 leaf of the table of contents (ooo. vi). Scattered pencil tick marks in the margins. Early manuscript manicules in margin of folios 209 and 466. [10],466,[6] numbered leaves. Foliation erratic, following collation noted in the Church Catalogue: Folio 24 wrongly numbered 42; 27 is 29; 29 is 27; 55 not numbered; 59 is 56; 90 is 84; 96 is 86; 99 is 96; 127 is 128; 131 is 139; 132 is 133; 133 is 141; 155 is 148; 156 is 149; 218 is 128; 234 is 233; 235 is 237; 251 is 253; 261 is 254; 262 is 254; 271 is 274; 272 is 274; 320 is 400; 398 is 397; 399 is 398; 400 is 399; 401 is 408 (or 403); 402 is 409; 403 is 402; 404 is 403; 405 is 404; 406 is 405; 407 is 414; 408 is 415; 411 is 410; 412 is 411; 413 is 412; 432 is 431; and 463 is 436. Engraved armorial bookplate (dated 1739) of David Bosanquet. Early ownership name of Richard Bosanquet on l. iii. The First "Learned and Accurate" Collection of Voyages in EnglishBy the First Author to Advocate a British Colony in North AmericaThis remarkable book stands as the first really important English language voyage collection, bringing together in a single volume some of the most important early New World accounts, as well as some of the earliest accounts of China and Japan to appear in English. Richard Eden, upon whose work the present volume is based, stands as the pioneer of English travel literature, for it was he who set English geographical literature on its course through his publications and translations, mainly drawn from Peter Martyr and Francisco Oviedo. In the preface to his Decades of the Newe Worlde (1555), Eden was the first to advocate a British colony in North America. Upon Eden's death in 1576, his acolyte Richard Willes continued and expanded the work. Indeed, the present 1577 title can rightly be described as an entirely new work, and not just a second edition of Eden's Decades, this due almost entirely to Willes's efforts. The History of Travayle in the West and East Indies contains a number of important additions not found in Eden's 1555 publication, including fresh information on the East translated by Willes:Willes' Preface unto the Reader, wherein is set downe a generall summe as it were of the whole worke. 6 preliminary pages.For M. Captayne Furbishers passage by the Northwest. Of China in Cathayo, Situated in the East Syde of Great Asy. Of the Iland Giapan, and Other Litle Iles in tte East Ocean, by the Way From Cathayo to the Moluccaes. By Richarde Willes: folios 230-236.Certayne reportes of the prouince China, learned through the Portugalles there imprisoned, and chiefly by the relation of Galeotto Perera.Done out of Italian into Englyshe, by R. W.: folios 237-251.Of the Ilande Giapan, and other litle Isles in the East Ocean. By Wylles: folios 251-260. Book.…

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First edition thus, and among the early English-language compilations of the most important New World narratives. Eden first published his translations - drawn chiefly from Peter Martyr and Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo - in 1555. The present volume is not a second edition of that work but an entirely new one, edited by Richard Willes. Although it begins with material from those two great Spanish chroniclers, it incorporates substantial additions absent from the 1555 edition and omits material then judged obsolete (see Church for a full list of additions and deletions). Willes's principal editorial interest lay in the East, and the book has been described by E. G. R. Taylor as "the first comprehensive account of Asia to be published in England". The additions include an account of Frobisher's search for a north-east passage, the best 16th-century English report on China, and the first account of Japan in English. The volume also contains the first English edition of Ludovico di Varthema's celebrated travels in Arabia, Persia, India, and possibly the Spice Islands (1502-07). An Italian who learned Arabic, professed Islam, and travelled to Mecca, Varthema was among the first Europeans to report extensively on the East. Together, these additions amount to roughly a third of the text. Willes further includes one of the earliest English accounts of Magellan's circumnavigation - a translation of Maximilian Transylvanus's narrative based on interviews with surviving crew members (ff. 430-447) - one of the earliest printed descriptions of high-latitude sailing in the Southern Hemisphere. Arents 23; Borba de Moraes, p. 33; Church 119; Cordier, Japonica 71; ESTC S122069; European Americana 577/2; Field 485; Hill 533; Luborsky & Ingram, Engl. illustrated books, 1536-1603, 649; Sabin 1562; STC 649; Streeter sale 24. E. G. R. Taylor, Tudor Geography 1485-1583, 1930. Small quarto (176 x 126 mm), ff. [10], 466, [6] (errata and contents); lacks last contents leaf, supplied in good quality facsimile. Woodcut star diagram on f. 436v, woodcut initials. Modern brown morocco, unlettered, sides panelled in blind. Title leaf and last leaf of prelims backed, with minute losses to two words on title, paper repairs at head through to f. 17, occasional words supplied in pen facsimile, some leaves shorter at foot; single worm-hole in upper inner corner of gutter throughout, not affecting text, mostly closed with tissue; damp-stained and somewhat browned at head, chiefly affecting the first third of the book; pale water-staining at foot, rising towards the end; closely trimmed at head, occasionally shaving headlines; overall, a good copy.…

Condizione: Very Good. The preferred edition of Eden's collection of voyages, the Walpole copy 8vo, (182 x 120 mm). 1 [blank], 10 ff., 466 ff., 6 ff., pp. 267 - 270 misbound; frequent misnumbering, woodcut illustration of the stars around the Antarctic Pole (verso f. 436). Later crushed red morocco possibly for Walpole, who favoured it, as noted in the Strawberry Hill catalogue, panels with gilt rule and ornament; spine in compartments ruled and lettered in gilt; edges with pale marbling. Tiny corner loss to f. 110 away from text, some ink staining to ff.266-268, light water staining to the last few leaves, else a very good example. The principal Elizabethan compendium of overseas discovery before Hakluyt, a work that help shape English geographical knowledge on the Century of Discoveries, this is the preferred second and expanded edition, including numerous new voyages translated into English (famously the first translation into English of Varthema's account of Mecca), of Richard Eden's 1555 edition, a work that ushered a period of British global ambitions. Through this work, English readers encountered news and descriptions of Asia, the Philippines, China, Japan, Frobisher's account of the Northwest Passage, and for the first time, the first European account of Mecca. This edition contains several significant additions from various other sources edited by Richard Willes, a member of the Society of Jesus from 1565 to 1572. The new material most notably includes Pereira's description of China (1565), Acosta and Maffei's descriptions of Japan (1573) by Willes, Frobisher's account of his search for the Northwest Passage, and the first printed accounts in English of these places - as well as the first appearance in English of Ludovico di Varthema's (the first non-Muslim Westerner to enter Mecca) account of his travels to Arabia, Persia, and India, first published in Rome in 1510. As a contemporary and associate of Columbus, Magellan and Vespucci, and a member of the Spanish Council for the Indies, Anghiera's accounts can be considered reliable and authoritative. Similarly, the narrative of Oviedo, who visited the West Indies no fewer than five times, is based on his firsthand experience as a soldier and colonist in the New World. Provenance: John Spencer, 1st Earl Spencer (1734-1783), his armorial bookplate on front pastedown, containing his coat of arms and those of his wife Margaret Georgiana Poyntz (1737-1814). Spencer was a bibliophile who built up a fine library at Althorp, his country seat in Northamptonshire. The Althorp library was bought in 1892 by Enriqueta Rylands for the John Rylands Library, University of Manchester, this copy was a duplicate and exited the Spencer collection at an earlier date; bookplate to front pastedown of art historian and politician Horatio (Horace) Walpole (1717 - 1797) gothic novelist and antiquarian, his armorial bookplate to front pastedown with motto Fari Quae Sententiat. The sale of Walpole's fabled library took place in his gothic revival villa Strawberry Hill House over twenty-four days in 1842; from the collection of Nicholas Ingleton, Australia. Cordier, Japonica, 71; Alden, 577.2; Sabin, 1562; Church, 119; Howgego, M65.…

First edition thus, a precursor to Hakluyt and among the early English-language compilations of the most important early New World narratives. Eden first published his translations, drawn chiefly from Peter Martyr and Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo, in 1555. The present volume is not a second edition of that work but an entirely new one, edited by Richard Willes. Although it begins with material from those two great Spanish chroniclers, it incorporates substantial additions absent from the 1555 edition and omits material then judged obsolete (see Church for a full list of additions and deletions). Willes' principal editorial interest lay in the East, and the book has been described by E. G. R. Taylor as "the first comprehensive account of Asia to be published in English." The additions include an account of Frobisher's search for a north-east passage, the best 16th-century English report on China, and the first account of Japan in English. The volume also contains the first English edition of Ludovico di Varthema's celebrated travels in Arabia, Persia, India, and possibly the Spice Islands (150207). An Italian who learned Arabic, professed Islam, and travelled to Mecca, Varthema was among the first Europeans to report extensively on the East. Together, these additions amount to roughly a third of the text. Willes also includes one of the first accounts in English of Magellan's circumnavigation, a translation of Maximilian Transylvanis' narrative (leaves 430-447). This is one of the earliest printed descriptions of high-latitude sailing in the Southern Hemisphere. ESTC S122069. EUROPEAN AMERICANA 577/2. CHURCH 119. STREETER SALE 24. ARENTS 23. BORBA DE MORAES, p.33. HILL 533. STC 649. SABIN 1562. CORDIER, JAPONICA 71. FIELD 485. LUBORKSY & INGRAM, ENGLISH ILLUSTRATED BOOKS, 649. E.G.R. Taylor, Tudor Geography, 14851583 (London: Methuen & Co., 1930), p.182. Small quarto. Modern brown paneled morocco. Title leaf and last leaf of preliminaries backed, with minute losses to two words on title, paper repairs at head through to leaf 17, occasional words supplied in pen facsimile. Single worm-hole in upper inner corner of gutter throughout, not affecting text and mostly closed with tissue, dampstaining at head, mostly to first third, pale tideline at foot, rising towards the end, closely trimmed at head, occasionally shaving headlines. Overall, a good copy.…

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LeatherBound. Condizione: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1577 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. Pages: 392 As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 392 Volume 4 Language: English.…

LeatherBound. Condizione: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1577 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. Pages: 390 As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 390 Volume 3 Language: English.…