1532. · Basel
by [Grynaeus, Simon]
Basel, 1532.. [48],584 [i.e. 586],[2]pp. Lacks the map. Folio. Antique-style gilt calf, gilt, spine gilt with raised bands. Slight worming to first hundred leaves, mostly affecting margins. Contemporary annotations throughout volume. Very good. One of the most important collections of New World material issued up to the time. Grynaeus is often given credit for this volume, somewhat unfairly, since the majority of the work was compiled by John Huttich. Describes the voyages of Columbus and Vespucci, and prints various accounts of Portuguese discoveries in Brazil and the East, accounts of Marco Polo, and much of the material gathered by Peter Martyr. There are extensive accounts of almost all of the European voyages to the larger world. EUROPEAN AMERICANA 532/17. SABIN 34100. HARRISSE 171. JCB (3)I:104. STREIT I:28. MEDINA, BHA 46n.
(Inventory #: WRCAM41962)