Astronomy, Astronomy--Early works to 1800, Cosmology, Medieval, Cosmology, Medieval--Early works to 1800, Science, Science--Early works to 1800, Astronomy, Cosmology, Medieval, Science, QB41 .G35 1632
Includes index. Frontispiece engraved by Stefan Della Bella. Printer's device, head- and tail-pieces; initials; woodcut diagrams. Mounted label on p.... Show moreIncludes index. Frontispiece engraved by Stefan Della Bella. Printer's device, head- and tail-pieces; initials; woodcut diagrams. Mounted label on p. 92 containing lines omitted in printing. cf. Riccardi. Bib. mat. ital. vol. 1, col. 512. Errata lists: p. 1-2, last count; signature register: p. 32, last count. Leaves 2B3 and 2B4 missigned as 2B2 and 2B3, respectively. Suppressed by the Inquisition in 1633. Main Heritage Shelves General QB41 .G35 1632 Book Item-ID: i23174109 BIB-ID: 2452139 Show less
Main Heritage Shelves General G500 .B67 1528 Book Item-ID: i2316654x BIB-ID: 2451672 Show moreMain Heritage Shelves General G500 .B67 1528 Book Item-ID: i2316654x BIB-ID: 2451672 Show less
Sessa's device below colophon. Main Heritage Shelves General DT54 .M36 1521 Book Item-ID: i10117453 BIB-ID: 1013381 Show moreSessa's device below colophon. Main Heritage Shelves General DT54 .M36 1521 Book Item-ID: i10117453 BIB-ID: 1013381 Show less
Voyages and travels, Voyages and travels--Early works to 1800, Discovery and exploration, E141 .A54 1577
A translation, with some omissions, of decades 1-3 of "De orbe novo" by Pietro Martire d'Anghiera; with additions from numerous other sources... Show moreA translation, with some omissions, of decades 1-3 of "De orbe novo" by Pietro Martire d'Anghiera; with additions from numerous other sources edited by Eden and Willes. At foot of title: Cum priuilegio. With six final errata and contents leaves. Main Heritage Shelves General E141 .A54 1577 Book Item-ID: i10203758 BIB-ID: 1022011 Show less
traducida en castellano por Ginés Perez de Hita ... ; primera parte dedicada al máximo doctor de la iglesia San Gerónimo con licencia. A pretended... Show moretraducida en castellano por Ginés Perez de Hita ... ; primera parte dedicada al máximo doctor de la iglesia San Gerónimo con licencia. A pretended translation, of which this is the first part. The second part was originally published in Barcelona, 1619, under title: Segunda parte de las guerras civiles de Granada. Cf. Palau y Dulcet. "Con licencia." Tailpieces; initials. Errors in paging: nos. 189, 239, 251, 349, 400, 491, 539, 577 misprinted as 180, 139, 151, 448, 300, 191, 339, 557, respectively. Errata: prelim. p. [6]. Published in Barcelona. Main Heritage Shelves General DP122 .P47 1757 Book Item-ID: i10102656 BIB-ID: 2504307 Show less
los publica la Sociedad de Bibliófilos Españoles. "Advertencia" signed M.S. y S. [i.e. Manuel serrano y Sanz?]. Published for the first time from the... Show morelos publica la Sociedad de Bibliófilos Españoles. "Advertencia" signed M.S. y S. [i.e. Manuel serrano y Sanz?]. Published for the first time from the original manuscript, probably the author's autograph copy, preserved in the Biblioteca nacional, Madrid. A French translation by Abraham de Wicquefort, of the part beginning with the third book, appeared in Paris, 1667, under title: L'ambassade de d. Garcia de Silva Figueroa. Main Heritage Shelves General DS257 .F57 1903 Book vol. 1 Item-ID: i25325103 BIB-ID: 2711783 Show less
Description and travel, Description and travel, DS257 .V35 1658
Published within the first complete and reliable edition of della Valle's "Viaggi", the present volume constitutes the first part of the author's... Show morePublished within the first complete and reliable edition of della Valle's "Viaggi", the present volume constitutes the first part of the author's Persian travels (March 1617-May 1619), spent in Isfahan and at Ferhabad. Pietro della Valle (1586-1652) left Venice in 1614 on a pilgrimage to Palestine, proceeding to Baghdad and then into Persia, where he married and sojourned in the court of Shah Abbas. He continued his travels east to the coast of India, Goa and Muscat, and thence back to Aleppo by way of Basra. He reached Rome in 1626, where the original Italian text of his letters written to the Neapolitan physician Mario Schipano was published. Only the first volume, dealing with Turkey, saw print during his lifetime. The two-part volume II on Persia was released in 1658, four years after his death; in 1662 the Turkey volume saw a second edition, and the set was concluded in 1663 with the volume discussing India. A one-volume English translation of the Indian travels appeared in 1665. - Binding rubbed; inner hinges rather crudely reinforced. Somewhat brownstained throughout; a few pencil marginalia. From the collection of the Modena-born abbot Giacomo Crispi (1693-1774), a member of Muratori's circle, with his ms. ownership (dated 1737) to t. p. 33609(2). Vittorio Alfieri Firenze 1793. Demi-rel. parchemin. Main Heritage Shelves General DS257 .V35 1658 Book Item-ID: i1687559x BIB-ID: 1510981 Show less
los publica la Sociedad de Bibliófilos Españoles. "Advertencia" signed M.S. y S. [i.e. Manuel serrano y Sanz?]. Published for the first time from the... Show morelos publica la Sociedad de Bibliófilos Españoles. "Advertencia" signed M.S. y S. [i.e. Manuel serrano y Sanz?]. Published for the first time from the original manuscript, probably the author's autograph copy, preserved in the Biblioteca nacional, Madrid. A French translation by Abraham de Wicquefort, of the part beginning with the third book, appeared in Paris, 1667, under title: L'ambassade de d. Garcia de Silva Figueroa. Main Heritage Shelves General DS257 .F57 1903 Book vol. 2 Item-ID: i25325097 BIB-ID: 2711783 Show less
Main Heritage Shelves General DB932.3 .D45 1685 Book Item-ID: i10078253 BIB-ID: 1009461 Show moreMain Heritage Shelves General DB932.3 .D45 1685 Book Item-ID: i10078253 BIB-ID: 1009461 Show less
Coasts, Coasts--Madagascar--Maps--Early works to 1800, Coasts, Coasts--Mozambique--Maps--Early works to 1800, Coasts
AF: Lucini fece. This sea chart shows the Northern part of Madagascar with the adjacent African mainland. From: Dudley's Dell 'Arcano dell Mare... ... Show moreAF: Lucini fece. This sea chart shows the Northern part of Madagascar with the adjacent African mainland. From: Dudley's Dell 'Arcano dell Mare... No scale. Size: 75 x 46.50 cm. Published in 1646-1647. Italian. Covers northern Madagascar and the northern coast of Mozambique. Shows coastal settlements and geographical features. Appears in the author's Dell'arcano del mare. 1646-1647. Continues coverage at larger scale of Carta particolare della parte australle della isola S. Lorez̄o ... Prime meridian: Pico. Has watermarks. "D'Affrica carta XIIII." Includes ill. Main Heritage Compact General HC.MAP.00412 Print Map Item-ID: i11401175 BIB-ID: 2767485 Show less
Coasts, Coasts--Madagascar--Maps--Early works to 1800, Coasts, Coasts--Mozambique--Maps--Early works to 1800, Coasts
AF: Lucini fece. Covers southern Madagascar and the southern coast of Mozambique. Shows coastal settlements and geographical features. Appears in the... Show moreAF: Lucini fece. Covers southern Madagascar and the southern coast of Mozambique. Shows coastal settlements and geographical features. Appears in the author's Arcano del mare. 1646-1647. Continues coverage at smaller scale of Carta particolare della parte tramontana dell isola di San Iorenzo ... Prime meridian: Pico. "D'Affrica carta XII." Includes ill. This is the continuation southward of the past map (no. 412) of Dudley. From: Dudley's Dell 'Arcano dell Mare... No scale. Size: 75 x 46.50 cm. Published in 1646-1647. Italian. Main Heritage Compact General HC.MAP.00411 Print Map Item-ID: i11401163 BIB-ID: 2767484 Show less
Crimean Tatars--Early works to 1800, Description and travel--Early works to 1800, History, History
traduzido y recopilado de diuersos y graues historiadores, por Amaro Centeno natural de la puebla de senabria en la montaña de Leon. Show moretraduzido y recopilado de diuersos y graues historiadores, por Amaro Centeno natural de la puebla de senabria en la montaña de Leon. Show less
All' illmo. Sigr. il Sr. Marcho Fucharo Barone di Kirchberg e' d' Waisenhoren ; Giacomo di Castaldi Piamotese Cosmographo in Venetia. Second state Ma... Show moreAll' illmo. Sigr. il Sr. Marcho Fucharo Barone di Kirchberg e' d' Waisenhoren ; Giacomo di Castaldi Piamotese Cosmographo in Venetia. Second state Map of the Arabian Peninsula, northeast Africa and western Asia with relief shown pictorially. Description Rare Second State of the Most Important 16th Century Map of the Middle East, etc. Fine example of Giacomo Gastaldi's rare 2-sheet wall map of the Middle East, covering Egypt, the Holy Land, the Horn of Africa, the Arabian Peninsula, and extending east across the Arabian Sea to the west coast of India. Gastaldi's 2-sheet map of the region is generally considered to be the single most influential map of the region published in the 16th century. The map would later be directly copied by Abraham Ortelius, Cornelis De Jode and Gerard Mercator in their respective atlases and other maps. In describing the map, Taleghani, et al noted: "In this large-scale map there appeared for the first time much material which was to recur in all western maps for the next century and a half, (Tibbetts, 1978:20). Gastaldi's representation of the Gulf broke with the Ptolemaic model: no longer a rectangle, it acquires its form of a segment and begins to take on its true contours. Ortelius, Mercator and other Dutch geographers then based their depictions of the Gulf on Gastaldi. Suarez describes at length the sources and innovations used by Gastaldi for all of his Asian continental maps, but foremost the three-sectional maps "had a major influence on the work of Ortelius and de Jode... In their representation of the coastlines his maps are superior to all previous known maps of Asia, either drawn by hand or printed" (Schilder in The Map Collector no. 17, p. 7). Nordenskiöld notes: Finally, it must be remembered that Gastaldi, under the guidance of Ramusio, is supposed to have aided in repairing or repainting the famous wall-maps in Sala dello scudo in Venice . . . If such was the case, it may be considered probable that the monumental maps of Africa and Asia by Gastaldi have had some connection to [Gastaldi's map of Asia], that these copper-plate engravings are a reproduction of the originals of the wall maps in that form which was given them in the middle of the sixteenth century. State The present example is a rare variant edition, bearing the imprint of "Petri de Nobilibus Formis." Pietro de Nobilis was a successor of Lafreri in Rome after 1580. Also, above the scale of miles is a further imprint reading: "In Roma appresso Paulo de Graciam." Rarity The second state is extremely rare. Tooley located only a single example in the Beans collection (now sold). Stefano Bifolco, in his recent census for his upcoming book on Italian Printed Maps from the 16th Century locates only 2 examples, Malta National Library and Jerusalem National Library (ex-Laor). Condition Description 2-sheets joined. Reference Cartographie Historique du Golfe Persique, Taleghani, Couo and Bacque-Grammont, 2006, p 152. Tooley, Maps in Italian Atlases of the Sixteenth Century, #54. Giacomo Gastaldi Biography Giacomo Gastaldi (1500-1566) is considered the foremost Italian cartographer of the sixteenth century, alongside Paolo Forlani. His skills of compilation are comparable to those of Mercator and Ortelius, yet much less is known of his life than of his two contemporaries. Gastaldi was born in Villafranca, Piedmont, but had established himself in Venice by 1539. He originally worked as an engineer, but turned to mapmaking from the 1540s onward. It was in Venice where he made his reputation as an engraver, geographer, and cosmographer; for example, he was asked to fresco maps of Asia and Africa in the Palace of the Doge, or the Council of Ten, Venice’s governmental body. He also frequently consulted on projects for the Savi sopra la Laguna, drawing maps for this body which oversaw the regulation of fresh and salt water around Venice. His contemporaries also recognized his skill, as he was named cosmographer to the Republic of Venice, was a member of the Accademia Veneziana, and was a major source for other geographers and mapmakers including Camocio, Bertelli, Cock, Luchini, and Ortelius. He even had his own distinct style of copper engraving that made him a pioneer in his day and makes his works iconic today. Gastaldi enjoyed an especially productive relationship with Giovanni Battista Ramusio, Secretary of the Venetian Senate, who used Gastaldi's maps for his famous travel account collection, Navigationi et Viaggi. Gastaldi also tutored Ramusio's son in cosmography. Main Heritage Compact General HC.MAP.00894 Print Map Item-ID: i25704424 BIB-ID: 2727736 Show less