RAMUSIO, Giovan Battista (1485-1557). Delle Navigationi et Viaggi . Venice: Giunta, 1563-59-65.
RAMUSIO, Giovan Battista (1485-1557). Delle Navigationi et Viaggi . Venice: Giunta, 1563-59-65. 3 volumes, 2° (320 x 220-225mm). Woodcut device on titles. 3 double-page woodcut maps in vol. I and 6 folding maps in vol. III. (Vol. I with wormtracks in approximately 40 leaves at the beginning and affecting maps; vol. II with title and 1.8 repaired and mounted on guards, waterstaining in 1.4-7, marginal browning to last 30 leaves; occasional staining, browning, worming and spotting in all 3 vols). Vols I and III in contemporary limp vellum, spines lettered in manuscript (ties lacking, front hinges broken, extremities rubbed and lightly soiled); vol. II in contemporary stiff vellum, not uniform with the other volumes, spine lettered in manuscript, mottled edges (new endpapers, small stain at head of spine and upper cover, extremities lightly rubbed). Provenance : Vincentius Columna (stamp on title of vol. II). 'THIS IS ONE OF THE EARLIEST AND MOST IMPORTANT COLLECTIONS OF VOYAGES AND TRAVELS, and may be said to have opened a new era in the literary history of voyages and navigation' (Hill). Mixed set (as often found): third edition of vol. I, FIRST EDITION of vol. II and second edition of vol. III. This work was first published between 1550 and 1559, followed by various subsequent editions, all of which had additions made to them. It contains MAPS OF GREAT SIGNIFICANCE, including those of Brazil, Canada, New England, Africa, Asia and Japan. Adams R-136; Borba de Moraes II: 698-99 (vols II and III only: 'we are indebted to Ramusio for the preservation of accounts of ... GREAT IMPORTANCE TO THE HISTORY OF BRAZILIAN NAVIGATION'); Church 99; Hill 1418, 1420, 1421; Sabin 67732, 67739, 67740; Kershaw 15a ( La Nuova Francia , 1565) and 17a ( La Terra de Hochelaga , 1565); Burden 34 ( Universale della parte del mondo nuovamente ritrovata , 1565: 'This is the first American map to include any of the names from the travels of Francisco Vásquez de Coronado, the first European to travel extensively the south-western part of North America'); Burden 35 ( La Nuova Francia , 1565: 'the first map devoted to New England and New France, the latter name being used here for the first time'); Betz 4 ( Prima Tavola , 1563: 'It is the first printed map of Africa in a book to show a southbound river, the Zembere ... [it] also shows for the first time on a printed map of the entire continent, the island of Madagascar); Walter 9 ( Universale della Parte del Mondo Nuovamente Ritrovata , 1565: 'Japan is no longer called Zipangri or some such but "Giapam" and lies some distance from North America'), Walter 10 ( Terza Tavola , 1563: 'Japan now clearly belongs to Asia'). (3)
RAMUSIO, Giovan Battista (1485-1557). Delle Navigationi et Viaggi . Venice: Giunta, 1563-59-65.
RAMUSIO, Giovan Battista (1485-1557). Delle Navigationi et Viaggi . Venice: Giunta, 1563-59-65. 3 volumes, 2° (320 x 220-225mm). Woodcut device on titles. 3 double-page woodcut maps in vol. I and 6 folding maps in vol. III. (Vol. I with wormtracks in approximately 40 leaves at the beginning and affecting maps; vol. II with title and 1.8 repaired and mounted on guards, waterstaining in 1.4-7, marginal browning to last 30 leaves; occasional staining, browning, worming and spotting in all 3 vols). Vols I and III in contemporary limp vellum, spines lettered in manuscript (ties lacking, front hinges broken, extremities rubbed and lightly soiled); vol. II in contemporary stiff vellum, not uniform with the other volumes, spine lettered in manuscript, mottled edges (new endpapers, small stain at head of spine and upper cover, extremities lightly rubbed). Provenance : Vincentius Columna (stamp on title of vol. II). 'THIS IS ONE OF THE EARLIEST AND MOST IMPORTANT COLLECTIONS OF VOYAGES AND TRAVELS, and may be said to have opened a new era in the literary history of voyages and navigation' (Hill). Mixed set (as often found): third edition of vol. I, FIRST EDITION of vol. II and second edition of vol. III. This work was first published between 1550 and 1559, followed by various subsequent editions, all of which had additions made to them. It contains MAPS OF GREAT SIGNIFICANCE, including those of Brazil, Canada, New England, Africa, Asia and Japan. Adams R-136; Borba de Moraes II: 698-99 (vols II and III only: 'we are indebted to Ramusio for the preservation of accounts of ... GREAT IMPORTANCE TO THE HISTORY OF BRAZILIAN NAVIGATION'); Church 99; Hill 1418, 1420, 1421; Sabin 67732, 67739, 67740; Kershaw 15a ( La Nuova Francia , 1565) and 17a ( La Terra de Hochelaga , 1565); Burden 34 ( Universale della parte del mondo nuovamente ritrovata , 1565: 'This is the first American map to include any of the names from the travels of Francisco Vásquez de Coronado, the first European to travel extensively the south-western part of North America'); Burden 35 ( La Nuova Francia , 1565: 'the first map devoted to New England and New France, the latter name being used here for the first time'); Betz 4 ( Prima Tavola , 1563: 'It is the first printed map of Africa in a book to show a southbound river, the Zembere ... [it] also shows for the first time on a printed map of the entire continent, the island of Madagascar); Walter 9 ( Universale della Parte del Mondo Nuovamente Ritrovata , 1565: 'Japan is no longer called Zipangri or some such but "Giapam" and lies some distance from North America'), Walter 10 ( Terza Tavola , 1563: 'Japan now clearly belongs to Asia'). (3)
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