Venice: Federico Toresano, 1547. [10],74 leaves. Titlepage printed in red and black, with ornamental woodcut border, woodcut initials throughout. Full-page diagram of a world map and windroses; four woodcut double-page or folding maps; four smaller double-page maps; 103 other woodcut maps and plans scattered through the text. Small folio. Contemporary.....
Venice: Nicolo Zoppino, 1528. [10],73 leaves, including four double-page maps and two single-page maps, and numerous woodcut maps and plans in the text. A few leaves misnumbered. Small folio. 18th-century vellum, spine gilt, leather label. Boards and spine moderately soiled, leather label abraded. Titlepage printed in red and black with.....
Rome: Giacomo Mascardi, 1615. 16pp. Later speckled paper boards. With the bookplate from the stock and reference library of H.P. Kraus on front pastedown. Minor separation of spine paper from rear joint. Very minor foxing. A very good copy. In a half morocco box. The present work is a rare.....
Place St. Sulpice, Paris. April 5, 1829. [1]p. Old folds, light spotting, pasted down at corners, one short horizontal fold separation. Very good. Accompanied by an engraved portrait of "Carlo Botta." An interesting personal correspondence from Italian historian Charles Botta, written to the translator of his book on the American.....
New Haven, Ct: Nathan Whiting, 1834. Two volumes. 472; 468pp. plus 12 engraved plates. Original cloth-backed green paper, leather label. Boards worn and soiled, top half of spine away but still attached on volume one, hinges loose. Spine on volume two with tears but intact. Modern bookplates on rear pastedowns.....
Firenze. 1788. viii,80pp. Lacks frontispiece portrait. Contemporary blue paper wrappers. Spine perished, front wrapper detached. Discreet ink stamp on titlepage. Very minor scattered foxing, but generally quite clean internally. Very good. The author devoutly believes that Vespucci, who was a Tuscan by birth, was the discoverer of America, and that.....
[Firenze, 1789]. 16pp. Small quarto. Modern half morocco and cloth. Very good. The author is known for his ELOGIO D'AMERIGO VESPUCCI...(Florence 1788) in which he describes Vespucci as the true discoverer of America and dismisses Columbus as an imposter. Sabin lists a variant title. The NUC notes only the Lenox.....
[Santiago? 1819]. Broadside, approximately 10 3/4 x 8 inches. In Spanish and Italian. Small numerical ink inscription following first line. Some foxing and light staining. Very good. A curious and unrecorded imprint celebrating the anniversary of Chile's independence with a patriotic song in Italian. The song, dedicated by a group.....
Venice. 1543. 40 leaves. 12mo. Modern half morocco over marbled boards, spine gilt. Occasional very minor spots, some leaves expertly restored in lower margin, not affecting text. Leaf C3 bound before C2, leaf C7 bound before C6. A very good copy. The rare third edition of Contarini's account of his.....
Torino. 1841. Two volumes. xvi,296; 392pp., plus errata leaf and four plates. Contemporary half morocco and marbled boards, spines gilt. Corners rubbed. Bookplate on front pastedowns. Light scattered foxing. Very good. The second edition and the first in Italian, following the French edition of 1834-35. A primary source on Mexican.....
Milano: Dalla Tipografia di Giovanni Silvestri... 1811. [4],98,[1]pp., errata leaf, plus two folding sheets comprised of seven maps and a folding plan with three views. Half title. Tall quarto. Original limp paper- covered boards. Boards scuffed and slightly stained, small paper labels on each cover. Previous owner's library bookplate on.....
London. 1939-1951. Fifteen original parts in wrappers, in two volumes. Original printed wrappers bound in stiff wrappers. Indexes on covers. Very good. Topics include: English and foreign bibles, John Bunyan, Lewis Carroll, continental books including incunabula, bibliographical reference books, English theology, English pamphlet literature of the 17th-19th centuries, voyages, travels.....
Milano: Dalla Tipografia Sonzogno e Comp. 1815. Four volumes. xviii,236,[26]; 296; 272; iv,298,[28]pp., plus frontispiece portrait, sixteen handcolored plates, folding map in volume four (handcolored in outline), and laid-in publisher's notices in volumes three and four. 12mo. Original pictorial wrappers. Minor soiling to wrappers, chip to upper outer corner of.....
Venice: Giordano Ziletti, 1577. Two volumes. [17],518,[1]; [13],365 leaves. Contemporary vellum, manuscript title on spines. Front joint of first volume cracked, other joints worn. Early bookplate on front pastedowns. Internally remarkably clean. A beautiful copy. Lopes de Castanheda is considered one of the definitive chroniclers of Portuguese activity in Asia.....
[Milan. 1849]. 482pp. including numerous illustrations. Engraved titlepage. Contemporary three- quarter green morocco and green pebbled cloth, gilt-lettered spine. Gilt ornamental endpapers. Minor browning. Very good. A presentation copy, inscribed from the author to an unnamed person, dated 1861, on front fly leaf. A fine work on numismatics, with engravings.....
[Mexico. 1856]. 10pp., printed in double-column format in parallel Spanish and Italian. Folio. Gathered signatures. Very good. Commercial treaty with Sardinia, then including northern Italy.
Venice: Appresso Antonio Tiuani, 1683. [16],516,[19]; 147,[5]pp. Small quarto. Contemporary vellum, gilt title on spine. Some persistent dampstaining in lower gutters of many leaves, titlepage bit tanned. Lacking four preliminary leaves of index and dedication, otherwise very good and quite clean. First published in Rome in 1672, this 1683 edition.....
Venice. 1829. xxii,[2],397pp. Antique-style three-quarter calf and marbled boards. Very good. Later edition of Marco Polo's travels in Asia. A relatively scarce Italian edition, with fewer than twenty copies recorded in OCLC.
Bergamo: Pagnoncelli, 1865. 134pp. Original printed wrappers. Wrappers worn at extremities, heavier along spine, minor dust soiling along top edge. Overall internally clean. Very good, untrimmed and unopened. A scarce history of Beltrami's exploration of the upper Mississippi with the Long expedition. "He undertook a hazardous and lonely journey in.....
Milan: Presso Sonzogno e Compagni, 1814. 44pp. 19th-century marbled wrappers. Modern bookplate inside front wrapper. A bit of light foxing. Very good. Untrimmed. In a half morocco and cloth folding case, spine gilt. Early Italian printing of the United States Constitution, preceded in this volume by the Articles of Confederation.....
Princeton. 1916. 32pp. Original gilt cloth. About fine. In dust jacket. Reprints in facsimile Vespucci's 1504 Soderini letter.
Princeton. 1916. 166pp. Gilt cloth. About fine. In dust jacket with tears at spine. Facsimile reprint of the 1508 text.
[N.p., but likely Paris. 1919]. Four versions of the text, separately paginated and grouped together, printed in English, French, and Italian (two versions). Folio. Gathered signatures, loosely inserted into printed wrappers, as issued, the four sections laid into a general printed wrapper. Moderate edge wear. Near fine. Germany's great ally.....
[Vinegia (i.e. Venice): Stampato per Stephano da Sabio, 1535]. [62] leaves. Small quarto. Later vellum over boards, manuscript title on spine. Corners bumped and lightly worn. Armorial bookplate on front pastedown. Several leaves lightly dampstained. Light scattered soiling. Very good. As one of the "Men of Cajamarca," Francisco de Xerez.....
