Peter martyr danghiera (6 risultati)

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.…

4to (165 x 215 mm). 3 parts in one volume. 79, (1 blank) ff. Double-sheet map ("Isola Spagnuola"), 64, (2) ff.; (15), (1 blank) ff. With 4 (3 full-page) woodcuts in the text. Contemporary full vellum with manuscript title to spine. Stored in modern custom-made half calf and cloth slipcase by Jacques P. Desmonts of J. Macdonald Co, Norwalk, CT. One of the earliest published attempts to assemble a group of travel and exploration accounts. This important collection of voyages and narratives is the work of several authors, although most bibliographers attribute it to Peter Martyr, a translation of whose work makes up the first section. The book was probably compiled for publication by Giovanni Ramusio of Venice (later famous for his much larger collection, "Delle navigationi et viaggi", which began publication in 1554). While only the Montalboddo collection precedes it as a group of voyage narratives outside Europe, this is the first collection to focus entirely on the New World. - The "Historia" is divided into three books: the first is made up of material from the "Decades" of Peter Martyr, drawn from the edition of 1530, the first complete edition to present all eight Decades. The second and most important part is drawn from the first published work of the great historian and chronicler of the early West Indies, Gonzalo Fernandez de Oviedo's "De la Natural Hystoria de las Indias" (Toledo, 1526). Since that pioneering work of American natural history (a completely different book from Oviedo's later "Historia general") is virtually unobtainable today, the present 1534 publication is the only form in which the first work of Oviedo can be had. His observations are the first accurate reports of New World plants and animals, and he also provides one of the first accounts of Bermuda, where he tried to land while en route to Spain in 1515, only to be driven off by adverse winds. The distinction of being the first obtainable edition is also true of the third part, a translation of an anonymously written tract entitled La Conquista de Peru, first published in Seville, also in 1534, of which only three copies survive. It gives the text of the tract in full. Both are among the first published accounts of the conquest of Peru. - The woodcuts in the text, drawn from the work of Oviedo and made up by the Venetian printers, are some of the earliest published images of the New World based on actual experience, as opposed to the fantasies of European woodcut artists. There is also a handsome double-page woodcut map of Hispaniola, an extremely early piece of detailed New World cartography. - Title-page and first leaf of text masterfully remargined, not affecting text. Slight dampstaining in upper corner of first 30-odd leaves, a closed tear to leaf 56. Two small burn holes in map, not affecting any printed area; occasional contemporary ink notations in margins. - Contemporary ownership "Di Francesco Antonio Papera" on front free endpaper; 18th century handwritten start of an index on rear flyleaf. Pretty etched bookplate of the American architect Lionel H. Pries (1897-1968) to front pastedown; old bookseller's label on rear pastedown. Latterly owned by the San Francisco collector Bruce McKinney; the lower pastedown bears the signed bookplate of his 2009 sale. - Edit 16, CNCE 1885. Sabin 1565. Palau 12.601. European Americana 534/28. Harrisse 190. Moraes, Bibl. Brasiliana (1983), 530f. Church 69. Arents 3. JCB (3) I, 114. Streeter Sale 13. Huth Library III, 923f. Winsor, Narrative and critical history of America II, 222-224. Burden, Mapping of North America, 10. OCLC 4643599. Not in Adams or BM-STC Italian.…

19th-century red morocco. Condizione: Very Good. Three foundational texts of Americana in a single volume: Peter Martyr, Oviedo, and one of the earliest printed reports of the conquest of Peru. Format: Small quarto, 20 x 15 cm. Binding: Rebound in nineteenth-century red morocco, raised bands, title labels in gilt. Illustration: Four woodcuts after the Toledo 1526 Oviedo; woodcut map of Hispaniola in facsimile. Contents: Three works bound as one, the collection probably formed by Giovanni Battista Ramusio. Language: Italian. Collation: Martyr: 1 unnumbered leaf (title); leaves 2?79; 1 original blank; folded map. Oviedo: 1 unnumbered leaf (title); 2 leaves (prologue); leaves 4?64 (text); 2 leaves (register, with the text explaining the 1534 Ramusio map). Anonymous: 1 unnumbered leaf (title); 15 unnumbered leaves (the text of the early letter describing the conquest of Peru). The Oviedo woodcuts are found at folio 21 verso (hamaca), folio 48 verso (arbol gigante), folio 49 recto (prender fuego) and folio 52 verso (hoja del platano). Condition: Rebound in the nineteenth century in red morocco, raised bands and gilt title labels, sound and clean. The woodcut map of Hispaniola, Isola Spagnuola, bound between the first and the second book, is a facsimile; the map is wanting in most surviving copies. The large world map called for in the colophon is not present, as in all but two recorded copies. References: Harrisse 190; Church 69. For the world map called for in the colophon, Burden 10. Stock no. FM-0076. Full description and further photographs available on request.…

First edition. First edition. Elaborate woodcut title compartment designed by Hans Franck, two woodcut initials. A-D4, E6; 43,[1, bl.]pp. Pages 20-21 misnumbered 24-25, as issued. 1 vols. 8vo. Peter Martyr's De nuper repertis insulis (On the islands recently discovered) is the first substantial printed account of the first three expeditions to Mexico and the discovery of the Mayan and Aztec civilizations. Including information from the lost first Cortés letter, it is a key work for the history of the New World from 1516 to 1520, including the conquest of Mexico and a description of Cuba. Indeed, with the loss of the first Cortés' letter, this is the first authoritative account of that expedition as well as the preliminary explorations by Cordova and Grijalva which preceded it. In the bibliographical sequence of works related to the discovery of Mexico and conquest, Martyr's De nuper repertis insulis is preceded only by the brief account in German printed in Nuremberg in 1520 and the account of Fr. Juan Diaz printed in Italian and Latin in 1520. Cortés' first letter remains unlocated, and is believed by some to have been suppressed by the Council for the Indies. Written in July of 1519, it would be the earliest account of the Spanish conquest of Mexico, including the founding of Vera Cruz; a letter written by the magistrates of that new settlement at the same time confirms what the contents would have been, and therefore the appropriateness of Martyr's 1521 letter as a substitute. Historian and bibliographer Henry R. Wagner was long convinced that Lopez de Gomara was in possession of the letter, or at least a copy, when writing his seminal Historia, but that account of these events would not appear for another thirty-two years. Martyr covers events from the discovery of the Yucatan to the Spanish conquest of Tenochtitlan, providing details of the earlier expedition of Grijalva, recounting the first and second embassies to Montezuma, and the founding of Vera Cruz, in addition to descriptions of the landscape, cities, and indigenous cultures, including news of Mayan hieroglyphics. Much attention is paid to Aztec culture, including descriptions of the Aztec calendar, their use of writing and a thorough description of the physical construction of their books. Perhaps moved by news of their artistic and linguistic productions, Martyr also presages Las Casas in his concern for the native people, remarking with sadness on their reduction at the hands of the conquistadors through disease, famine, and mistreatment. "This is Martyr's first narrative of the discovery made by Grijalva and the expedition of Cortés to Mexico, added to a fuller account of Cuba than was contained in his three decades already printed. Harrisse called this work an extract from the Fourth Decade, but it is evidently a much more important work, [with] Stevens and other authorities defining it as a substitute for the lost first Cortés letter. This work supplements, rather than overlaps other narratives by the author" (Streeter). Not in Church. A remarkably important piece of Americana, the first authoritative account of Cortés' expedition to Mexico, recounting to Europe his exploits at the beginning of the Spanish conquest of the New World, as well as details of the Aztec Empire and its people. Beinecke Lesser Antilles Collection 1; Borba de Moraes, p.530; European Americana 521/1; Harrisse (BAV) 110; JCB (3) I:79; Medina (BHA) 62; Palau 12594; Sabin 1553; Stevens Nuggets 1802; Streeter Sale 8 Modern wrappers. Early vellum tab at fore-edge, some sparse pencil marks, otherwise in very good condition. Housed in a quarter-morocco slipcase Elaborate woodcut title compartment designed by Hans Franck, two woodcut initials. A-D4, E6; 43,[1, bl.]pp. Pages 20-21 misnumbered 24-25, as issued. 1 vols. 8vo.…

8vo (110 x 162 mm). (48), 655, (31) pp., final blank. With decorative woodcut initials. Contemporary full vellum, tooled in blind, with handwritten spine title. The collected Peter Martyr: the foremost chronicler of the New World in its earliest period, including all of his most important texts on American discovery. Besides all of the chronicles Martyr wrote as official historian of the Indies, covering the years 1492-1516, this important and early edition adds some important works: Martyr's three books of "De babylonica legatione", describing his diplomatic mission to Egypt in 1501-02 in which he persuades the sultan "to adopt a policy of clemency towards the Christians of Egypt and Palestine following the defeat of the Moors in Spain" (Howgego); Martyr's 1521 Basel letter, which contains the text of the lost first Cortés letter describing his initial landing and forays into Mexico; and Damiao de Goes's famous work on the religion and customs of Ethiopia (with a description of Lapland), originally published in 1540, included by Harrisse in Additions (144). - Peter Martyr was an Italian swept up in the milieu of the Spanish court, a tutor to princes, and a personal friend of the likes of Christopher Columbus, Ferdinand Magellan, and Amerigo Vespucci. It was Martyr who wrote the first accounts of Central and South America in a series of letters and reports, which were subsequently published in compilations referred to as his "Decades". Much of what is known about the looks, personality, and minds of the early explorers come from Martyr's letters, which sometimes included lively gossip. He was the first to describe contact between Europeans and Native Americans, and provided vital early insight into Pre-Columbian American civilizations; he was the first to understand the importance of the Gulf Stream, and the first European to reference India rubber. - Light toning and foxing, a few contemporary notations in text. - Front pastedown has handwritten ownerships of Johannes Wedemhove from Saxony ("Sum Ioannis Vuedemhovii Lu. Saxonis", ca. 1580, as dated on flyleaf opposite), of the Rostock philosopher Angelus Johann Daniel Aepinus, 1718-84 ("AJD Aepinus"), and of Dr. Maurice (Ruddell) Ries (b. 1906) of the Middle American Research Institute at Tulane University, New Orleans, dated 1950; title-page bears the name "Schmid" (dated 1742). - VD 16, A 2844. Adams M 755. BM-STC German 33. Sabin 1558. European Americana 574/1. Medina 235. Beinecke, Lesser Antilles Collection 2. Bell A214. JCB (3) I, 253.…

4to. 1 p. Italian manuscript on paper. 20 lines in brown ink. Tipped onto backing paper, which bears a typed English translation. A unique survival in the hand of Peter Martyr d'Anghiera (1457-1526), the first European historian of the New World. Peter Martyr was an Italian swept up in the milieu of the Spanish court, a tutor to princes, and a personal friend of the likes of Christopher Columbus, Ferdinand Magellan, and Amerigo Vespucci. It was Martyr who wrote the first accounts of Central and South America in a series of letters and reports, which were subsequently published from 1511 to 1530 in compilations referred to as his "Decades". Much of what is known about the looks, personality, and minds of the early explorers come from Martyr's letters, which sometimes included lively gossip. He was the first to describe contact between Europeans and Native Americans, and provided vital early insight into Pre-Columbian American civilizations; he was the first to understand the importance of the Gulf Stream, and the first European to reference India rubber. - This receipt of funds is written in Peter Martyr's own hand ("mia propria mano") while he was spending time back in Milan, attached to the Sforza family. It acknowledges the receipt of a sum of twelve imperial livres linked to the late Baptista Sfondrato, a member of the powerful Sfondrato family and another high connection of Peter Martyr's. - Between the Sforzas and the Sfondratos, already Martyr was moving in powerful circles, and at the court of Spain he witnessed the earliest years of the Age of Exploration and one of the greatest sea-changes in human history. His friendships with the great explorers of the age granted Martyr access to documents and personal interviews few others could reach, swiftly establishing him as the foremost historian of the Americas in Europe. - When this note was sold at Goodspeed's Book Shop in the 1970s, then-director Gordon Banks referred to it as "probably the most unusual item and perhaps the rarest that we have listed in several years." A unique text in Martyr's own hand, it helps sketch the complex web of political and personal alliances through which Martyr navigated his career. No handwritten notes by Martyr or any of his conquistador colleagues Columbus, Magellan, Vespucci can be traced on the market; as stated by Goodspeed fifty years ago, the present autograph stands alone. - Tipped onto backing paper, lightly creased; quite well preserved. - 1) Listed in a fragmentary auction record, currently unidentified, bought by - 2) Goodspeed's Book Shop, 1976, sold to - 3) The private collection of Dr. John K. Lattimer.…