PLAUTIUS, Caspar (fl. 1621)]. Nova typis transacta navigatio Novi orbis Indiae Occidentalis... nunc primum e variis scriptoribus in unum collecta... Authore... Honorio Philophono . [Linz], 1621. 2 o (298 x 194 mm). Engraved emblematic title with figures of St. Brendan and another Benedictine, at bottom a small map of the East and West Indies, 19 engraved plates including unnumbered emblematic plate with owl and royal insignia, plates 3-19 numbered 2-18, woodcut diagrams in text, woodcut factotum initials and tail-piece, type-ornament head-pieces. Plate 1, of Columbus with a map of the world, signed by Wolfgang Kilian (Engraved title torn slightly along gutter, plate 5 with repairs at inner margin touching border, soiling to pl. 2, small stain to pl. 13, wormholes to N1-2, N2 repaired at gutter, one or two other small marginal tears or repairs, a few sheets loose in sewing). Early 19th-century speckled paper boards (rubbed). Provenance : Oberalteich, Bavaria (18th-century inscription on title). FIRST EDITION, enlarged issue, of this famous relation of the Benedictine missionaries who accompanied Columbus. The dedicatee Caspar Plautius, abbot of Seitenstetten in Lower Austria, is known to be in fact the author. Although laced with miraculous accounts, beginning with the mass celebrated by St. Brendan on the back of a whale (illustrated in plate 2), the narrative is full of authentic details of Caribbean customs, flora and fauna, and agricultural products. A specimen of music is given on pp. 35-36. The author accuses the Protestant de Brys' accounts of being filled with lies, and dwells on the barbaric cruelties of the natives in support of the notion that Satan ruled the native American religions. This expanded issue contains additional preliminary matter including a preface to Benedictine readers, an emblematic plate, and a quire of 2 leaves on the lodestone, as well as a list of Benedictine apostles to various peoples and tribes and a page of errata at the end. A very good copy, with dark, fresh impressions of the plates. Alden and Landis 621/100; Palau 224762; Sabin 63367.
PLAUTIUS, Caspar (fl. 1621)]. Nova typis transacta navigatio Novi orbis Indiae Occidentalis... nunc primum e variis scriptoribus in unum collecta... Authore... Honorio Philophono . [Linz], 1621. 2 o (298 x 194 mm). Engraved emblematic title with figures of St. Brendan and another Benedictine, at bottom a small map of the East and West Indies, 19 engraved plates including unnumbered emblematic plate with owl and royal insignia, plates 3-19 numbered 2-18, woodcut diagrams in text, woodcut factotum initials and tail-piece, type-ornament head-pieces. Plate 1, of Columbus with a map of the world, signed by Wolfgang Kilian (Engraved title torn slightly along gutter, plate 5 with repairs at inner margin touching border, soiling to pl. 2, small stain to pl. 13, wormholes to N1-2, N2 repaired at gutter, one or two other small marginal tears or repairs, a few sheets loose in sewing). Early 19th-century speckled paper boards (rubbed). Provenance : Oberalteich, Bavaria (18th-century inscription on title). FIRST EDITION, enlarged issue, of this famous relation of the Benedictine missionaries who accompanied Columbus. The dedicatee Caspar Plautius, abbot of Seitenstetten in Lower Austria, is known to be in fact the author. Although laced with miraculous accounts, beginning with the mass celebrated by St. Brendan on the back of a whale (illustrated in plate 2), the narrative is full of authentic details of Caribbean customs, flora and fauna, and agricultural products. A specimen of music is given on pp. 35-36. The author accuses the Protestant de Brys' accounts of being filled with lies, and dwells on the barbaric cruelties of the natives in support of the notion that Satan ruled the native American religions. This expanded issue contains additional preliminary matter including a preface to Benedictine readers, an emblematic plate, and a quire of 2 leaves on the lodestone, as well as a list of Benedictine apostles to various peoples and tribes and a page of errata at the end. A very good copy, with dark, fresh impressions of the plates. Alden and Landis 621/100; Palau 224762; Sabin 63367.
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