{"title":"Books","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"description-et-recit-historial-du-riche-royaume-dor-de-gunea-aultrement-nomme-la-coste-de-lor-de-mina-amsterdam-c-claesson-1605","title":"Description et recit historial du riche Royaume d'or de Gunea, aultrement nommé, la coste de l'or de Mina. Amsterdam: C. Claesson, 1605.","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"Description et recit historial du riche Royaume d'or de Gunea, aultrement nommé, la coste de l'or de Mina.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e-Pieter de Marees\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e-Published in Amsterdam by Cornelis Claesz \"C. Claesson\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e-1605\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e-Complete work: TP, 1-99, [4] -21 engravings in text\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e-Condition: some faint marginal stains, light browning, most plates have slight trimming at the fore-edge, small rust hole in E3 affecting a few letters\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e-Modern limp vellum.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003ePieter de Marees’s \u003ci\u003eBeschrijvinghe ende Historische verhael van het Gout Koninckrijck van Guinea\u003c\/i\u003e (1602) is the most important European work on West Africa of the seventeenth century.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA Dutch merchant from Enkhuizen, little else is known about De Marees apart from this account of his voyage to the Gold Coast around 1597. Written for merchants and policy makers in the newly independent Dutch Republic, it was soon translated into Latin, French, and German, influencing and shaping European views of Africa. Images copied from his illustrations would be used by the cartographer Blaeu and other illustrators, long into the 17th Century.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe work describes the Akan people of modern-day Ghana and the Gold Coast, offering a remarkably detailed view of society. It includes descriptions of political and social structures, trade, religion, and even local hairstyles, illustrated in a famous plate. De Marees’s description of the Akan remains a key primary source for historians and anthropologists.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBeing a merchant, De Marees focused on the region’s valuable commodities such as gold, ivory, and pepper. He also included a phrasebook to aid future traders. His observations mark the shift of the transatlantic slave trade from Portuguese to Dutch, and later British, traders. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOCLC states 6 copies only in US institutions: Harvard, Yale, Huntington, Wisconsin, NYPL, Minnesota.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"DeBryRareBooks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41985336443051,"sku":"","price":12500.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0624\/2969\/2075\/products\/Screenshot2022-07-24at07.49.19.png?v=1658645436"},{"product_id":"a-journal-of-a-voyage-to-the-south-seas-in-his-majestys-ship-the-endeavour-sydney-parkinson","title":"A Journal of a Voyage to the South Seas, in His Majesty's ship, the Endeavour - Sydney Parkinson","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\"A Journal of a Voyage to the South Seas, in His Majesty's ship, the Endeavour. London: for Stanfield Parkinson, 1773.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e-1st Edition -Quarto (337 x 274mm) - Large-paper copy\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e-Original calf binding with wide margins. Extremities rubbed joints cracking at head and foot of spine, headcap slightly defective revealing headband, front free endpaper\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e-Engraved portrait frontispiece, engraved map of the coast of New Zealand, and 26 further engraved plates (Complete plates)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e-Complete: Portrait, xxiv, 212, errata leaf\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e-Plates III and XV and errata leaf (loosely inserted) supplied from a smaller copy\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e-Generally good condition but some spotting and toning, text with some faint staining and soiling. Light water mark to upper 1\/3 of exterior pages for part of the book.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eParkinson's journal is regarded as the finest account of Cook's first voyage. Employed as a draughtsman, he drew the celebrated images of Australia and New Zealand, which are well known to this day. Tragically he died on the return to England, but his brother arranged the publication of this work. The work contains valuable South-Sea vocabularies and the first published use of the word kangaroo.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eProvenance: With Receipt from Maggs Bros (£600 in 1982) and Book Plate of Andrew David\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"DeBryRareBooks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41985348337835,"sku":"","price":5000.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0624\/2969\/2075\/products\/Screenshot2022-07-24at07.58.43.png?v=1658646026"},{"product_id":"ambassade-au-thibet-et-au-boutan-samuel-turner-published-by-paris-f-buisson-1800","title":"Ambassade au Thibet et au Boutan - Samuel Turner Published by Paris, F. Buisson, 1800","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e-Plate volume only, fifteen (of 15) engraved plates, including one folding engraved map of Tibet and Bhutan and two fold out. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e4to, period calf back boards. The calf spine is worn and tired with losses top and bottom, boards rubbed and worn on edges. Contents with some occasional moisture staining to margins and light faint spotting. Overall very good copy.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"DeBryRareBooks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42023842316459,"sku":"","price":800.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0624\/2969\/2075\/products\/Screenshot2022-08-07at16.53.28.png?v=1659887719"},{"product_id":"an-account-of-the-pelew-palau-islands-situated-in-the-western-part-of-the-pacific-ocean-george-keate-1789","title":"\"An Account of the Pelew (Palau) Islands, situated in the western part of the Pacific Ocean\" - George KEATE -1789","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e-London, third edition\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e-Complete: pp. 378 engraved frontispiece, folding engraved map, 15 engraved plates with guards, including folding panorama of the islands. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e-4to, full contemporary calf, gilt tooled spine with raised bands, marbled endpapers, Contents mostly clean. Very occasional light spotting and some light staining but overall an excellent copy. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eImportant early account of this voyage to Palau in the Pacific with lovely early illustrations and in an excellent binding\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"DeBryRareBooks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42023848181931,"sku":"","price":950.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0624\/2969\/2075\/products\/Screenshot2022-08-07at16.56.55.png?v=1659887964"},{"product_id":"atlas-to-relation-de-lambassade-anglaise-envoyee-en-1795-dans-le-royaume-dava-burma-myanma-michael-symes-1800","title":"Atlas to \"Relation de L'Ambassade Anglaise Envoyee En 1795 Dans Le Royaume D'Ava\"- Burma (Myanmar) - Michael Symes -  1800","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-Michael Symes\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e-Atlas volume only, Paris, chez F. Buisson, 1800, first French edition,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e- Complete with Full page engraved map of the Burmese empire, folding engraved map of the Irrawaddy River by Thomas Wood and 28 engraved plates.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eCondition: Calf spin is cracking on both hinges at top of spine. Calf on spine is torn lower down and lifting. Contents clean with some marginal soiling and slight spotting otherwise contents clean. Library stamp to titles page.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe illustrations include pictures of monuments, people, botany and Burmese culture to include the taming of wild elephants, the Temple de Schoe-Madou a Pegu and the ceremonial yacht of the Burmese Emperor, gilt dec. calf backed original dec. boards, folio \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"DeBryRareBooks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42023851819179,"sku":"","price":1200.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0624\/2969\/2075\/products\/Screenshot2022-08-07at17.01.08.png?v=1659888158"},{"product_id":"americae-achter-theil-in-welchem-erstlich-beschrieben-wirt-das-machtige-vnd-goldtreiche-konigreich-guiana","title":"De Bry - Walter Raleigh - Search for Eldorado - 1599 - \"Americæ Achter Theil. In welchem erstlich beschrieben wirt das Mächtige vnd Goldtreiche Königreich Guiana.\"","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e \"Americæ Achter Theil. In welchem erstlich beschrieben wirt das Mächtige vnd Goldtreiche Königreich Guiana.\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-1599\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-Theodore De Bry\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e-Rare First German Edition of one of the most important parts of De Bry's Grands Voyages. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e-This part contains accounts of Drake and Cavendish's Circumnavigations as well as Raleigh's search for the fabled city of Eldorado.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e-The book contains 21 (of 21) plates, and the complete text. \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eThe Book contains the beautiful double page map of Guiana. The second (of three) title pages is missing. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe map has some restoration and facsimile work to the the lower and upper areas of the map. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBound in modern Quarter Calf. Some toning to pages. Some restoration to pages. First title page washed. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCollation: Title Page 1, [3], MAP, 1-56, 1-30, Title Page 2 (Missing), 1-48, letterpress title to plates, Plates 1-6 (6 of 6) , TP 3 (Addiatamentum), [1]. 5-73 with blank at 47 as called for, Letterpress TP to plates, plates 1-15 (of 15). \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChurch states \"This Part contains relations of six different voyages; three by Drake, one by Cavendish, and two by Sir Walter Raleigh. Drake's First Voyage (pp. 3-16) took place in 1577-80. No description of it had previously been published. This account, from which De Bry, and later Hakluyt, published it in Latin and English respectively, was written by Nino de Sylva, a Portuguese. The Second Voyage of Drake (pp. 17-32) around the world was finished in 1585. De Dry's account is based upon that of Thomas Gates. Drake's Third Voyage (pp. 33-44), directed against the Spanish at Panama, took place in 1595-96. This account is taken from his log-book of the expedition, which was continued by his men. Thomas Cavendish circumnavigated the world in 1586-88. An account of the voyage was written in English by Thomas Pretty who accompanied him. It was published by Hakluyt. De Bry's narrative appears to have been based upon a manuscript account of Pretty's relation. The First Voyage of Sir Walter Raleigh was undertaken in 1595, during which he visited Guiana. He himself published an account of it in London in 1596. The Second Voyage, attributed to Raleigh, does not appear to have been made by him, but by Laurent Keymis, a companion of the voyage of 1595, who set out for Guiana in 1596. On his return he wrote a description of his voyage which was published in London in the same year.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA set of important narratives including Drake's Circumnavigation and his naming of California as \"New Albion\". 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mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003e, item, ex \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003eindia\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003eEpistolarum\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003e. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003eeodem\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003einterprete\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003e Libri IV”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; 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mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003e\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003eIgnatii\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003eLoiolae\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003e vita \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003epostremo\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003erecognita\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003e”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"language: en-GB; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0in; text-align: center; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"language: en-GB; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0in; text-align: center; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003e-Giovanni Pietro \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003eMaffei (1533 – 1603)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"language: en-GB; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0in; text-align: center; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003e-1st edition \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"language: en-GB; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0in; text-align: center; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003e-1588\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"language: en-GB; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0in; text-align: center; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"language: en-GB; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0in; text-align: center; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003e-Published by Giunta in Firenze\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"language: en-GB; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0in; text-align: center; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003e-Quarto\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"language: en-GB; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0in; text-align: center; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003e-30x20cm approx.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"language: en-GB; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0in; text-align: center; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"language: en-GB; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0in; text-align: center; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003e19th century Half calf binding with marbled paper\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"language: en-GB; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0in; text-align: center; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"language: en-GB; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0in; text-align: center; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003eVery good condition overall. Paper mainly clean and white throughout. Some mild browning to some pages\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"language: en-GB; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0in; text-align: center; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"language: en-GB; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0in; text-align: center; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003eComplete (Dedication leaf present \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003emisbound\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003e between pages 10 and 11) TP, dedication, 1-570, 28 including colophon on final leaf\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"language: en-GB; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0in; text-align: center; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"language: en-GB; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0in; text-align: center; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003eThis is the first edition of this \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003ecornerstone \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003ework on Asia \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003ebased on Jesuit sources. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003eIt was assembled by Giovanni Pietro \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003eMaffei, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003ea Jesuit priest \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003ewho \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003ewas commissioned to write this work on the history of Portuguese voyages of discovery\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003e. Born in Bergamo in 1533, Maffei joined the Jesuit Church in 1565 and was brought to Lisbon to teach and write. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003eHe\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003ecomposed\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003ethis\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003eaccount\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003efrom\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003eletters\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003eand\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003eaccounts\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003ereturning to\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003eEurope from the Jesuit church in the East. The account was widely published with 14 editions appearing over the next 30 years.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"language: en-GB; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0in; text-align: center; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"language: en-GB; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0in; text-align: center; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003eChapters 12 and 14 are important early European sources on Japan. The “\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003eepistola\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003e” include letters from Luis de Almeida , who is credited with introducing western “medicine” into Japan and establishing the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003efirst hospital there, and Juan Fernandez -\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003ea Spaniard who was the first European to write the grammar and alphabet of the Japanese language. 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The ships visited many Pacific Islands, including Tonga and Papua New Guinea, but on returning via Java, Schouten was arrested by the VOC for breaking trade restrictions. Despite this, his journey was celebrated in Europe and the account was published in several editions. 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Folding plate supplied in facsimile\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-Contemporary vellum with yapp edges. Front cover weakening.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis celebrated work is one of the earliest to describe the Tupinamba peoples of South America. The woodcuts were first included in the 1580 French edition and are here expanded.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLery took part in \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eVillegagnon's failed expedition to found a French colony in Brazil - \"France Antarctique\".  \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eThis Protestant expedition had set out to escape the French wars of Religion. The colony was founded in present day Rio de Janeiro and Lery spent time exploring the local area. He gives an accurate description of the flora and fauna of the region, but the book is best known for its sympathetic description of the Tupinamba peoples. This is one of the most important early descriptions before increasing European interaction changed their way of life. He records the Tupinamba in engaged in war and cannibalism - which was controversial in Europe on his return. 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(This 2nd edition c. 1617)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePart 5 of De Bry's Grands Voyages - Benzoni's description of the Americas\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLarge Quarto - 36x25cm\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eComplete: TP, Portrait of Columbus, Double page Map, 3-72, TP, 22 (of 22) plates\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIncludes Rare Map of Mexico\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e-Modern quarter leather binding with gold lettering.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGood condition overall: Modern colour title page of smaller size at lower edge. Toning to plates which are likely from a different book to the text block.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThis work describes Benzoni's 15 years on the isthmus of America, in Panama and Nicaragua. Benzoni, an Italian, acted as a mediator between different nations. The work describes life of the first nations of Central America. Benzoni wrote at a time when the Spanish treatment of the Indians was a concern, and described the cruelty of the Spanish towards the Indians and African slaves - the famous \"Black legend\". The work is beautifully illustrated with engravings of the Native Americans and Spanish conquistadors. It including images of Nicaraguans dancing, how they held their markets, and made war, and of slaves being harshly treated. Engravings depict France's failed efforts to colonise the Southern Americas.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/debryrarebooks.com\/pages\/grand-voyages?srsltid=AfmBOoo36W7yP8OlKFCqks0kdcqMmV0q6Y6nlJ2xP5uMJnoCJ8KkaH8K\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/debryrarebooks.com\/pages\/grand-voyages?srsltid=AfmBOoo36W7yP8OlKFCqks0kdcqMmV0q6Y6nlJ2xP5uMJnoCJ8KkaH8K\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003eClick here for other parts of De Bry's Grands Voyages\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"De Bry Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42709852422315,"sku":"","price":3750.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0624\/2969\/2075\/files\/IMG_5900.jpg?v=1685213901"},{"product_id":"veram-et-historicam-descriptionem-auriferi-regni-guineae","title":"\"Veram et historicam descriptionem auriferi regni Guineae.\"","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\"Veram et historicam descriptionem auriferi regni Guineae.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e- Indiae Orientalis part 6\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e-Johann Theodor de Bry; Johann Israel de Bry;\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePieter de Marees\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e-Published by  in Frankfurt by Wolfgang Richteri\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e-1604\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e-Quarto, 29 x 20 cm - late 18th century quarter vellum with marbled boards. Good condition but some trimming to plates.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e-Complete (Plates bound before text in this copy) : \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eTP to plates. 26 half-page engraved illustrations TP, [8], 1-127\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFirst edition of part 6 of de Bry's Petits Voyages in Latin. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003ePieter de Marees’s \u003ci\u003eBeschrijvinghe ende Historische verhael van het Gout Koninckrijck van Guinea\u003c\/i\u003e (1602) is the most important European work on West Africa of the seventeenth century. A Dutch merchant sailing from Enkhuizen, little else is known about De Marees apart from this account of his voyage to the Gold Coast around 1597. Written for merchants and policy makers in the newly independent Dutch Republic, it was soon translated into Latin, French, and German, influencing and shaping European views of Africa. Images copied from his illustrations would be used by the cartographer Blaeu, and other illustrators, long into the 17th Century. The work describes the Akan people of modern-day Ghana and the Gold Coast, offering a remarkably detailed view of society. It includes descriptions of political and social structures, trade, religion, and even local hairstyles, memorably illustrated in a famous plate. De Marees’s description of the Akan remains a key primary source for historians and anthropologists today. Being a merchant, he focused on the region’s valuable commodities—gold, ivory, and pepper—and included a phrasebook to aid future traders. His observations on war captives being held as slaves within African societies predate, and in some ways anticipate, the transatlantic slave trade that would expand later in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"De Bry Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42990875705515,"sku":"","price":2500.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0624\/2969\/2075\/files\/IMG_7899.heic?v=1760431303"},{"product_id":"brevis-narratio-jacques-le-moyne-de-bry-florida-complete-set-of-42-plates-and-title-page-german-1st-edition","title":"Part 2 of De Bry's Grands Voyages - Brevis Narratio - Jacques Le Moyne - De Bry Florida - Complete set of 42 plates and Title page - German 1st Edition - 1591","description":"\u003cp align=\"center\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Cambria',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;\"\u003eFirst Edition German plates of t\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Cambria',serif;\"\u003ehe most important early illustrated work on Florida\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Cambria',serif;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"center\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Cambria',serif;\"\u003e“DER ANDER THEYL\/ der Newlich erfundenen Landt- schafft Americae, Von dreyen Schiffahrten\/ so die Frantzosen in Floridam (die gegen Nidergang gelegen) gethan. Eine vnter dem Hauptmann H. Laudonniere, Anno 1564. Die ander vnter H. Ribald 1565. Die dritte\/ vnter H. Guorguesio 1567. ges- chehen. Francofortiad Moenvm Typis Ioanis Wecheli, Stantibus vero Theodori de Bry Anno MDXCI. Venales reperiutur in officina Sigismundi Feirabedii”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"center\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Cambria',serif;\"\u003e-Jacques le Moyne\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"center\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Cambria',serif;\"\u003e-Published by Theodore De Bry\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"center\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Cambria',serif;\"\u003e-1591 (1st German Edition)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"center\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Cambria',serif;\"\u003e-TP to plates, Index to plates, Plates 1-42 (of 42), xxv, index\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"center\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Cambria',serif;\"\u003e-Bound in modern quarter calf binding\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"center\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Cambria',serif;\"\u003e-Good Condition overall but toning and old repairs to pages. Plates are trimmed sometimes affecting the title (plates 16 -20 particularly). \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"center\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Cambria',serif;\"\u003e-Incomplete. Missing the TP, introduction and main text. Complete from plates onwards. No map.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"center\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Cambria',serif;\"\u003e-This celebrated work by Jacques Le Moyne, and illustrated by De Bry, is the most important early work on the History of Florida. It describes the first French settlements in Florida and is beautifully illustrated with plates of the Timucua First Nation.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Cambria',serif;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"center\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Cambria',serif;\"\u003eThis part gives an account of the early expeditions of the French to Florida under Jean Ribaut (1562), Rene de Laudoniere (1564) and Dominique de Gourgues (1567). The account of the Laudonniere expedition was written by Jacques le Moyne (de Morgues), an artist who accompanied the expedition. He escaped massacre by the Spaniards at Fort Caroline and went to England, with the drawings he had made, where he died. After his death his manuscripts and drawings were sold by his widow to De Bry who published them in this volume. It is one of the earliest descriptions of Florida and the first to be clearly illustrated and to describe the local peoples.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"center\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Cambria',serif;\"\u003eAlthough the work incomplete, this is a full set of German plates which are less common than the Latin editions\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Cambria',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;\"\u003e£6250\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/debryrarebooks.com\/pages\/grand-voyages\" title=\"https:\/\/debryrarebooks.com\/pages\/grand-voyages\"\u003eClick here for other parts of De Bry's Grands Voyages\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"De Bry Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42997896315051,"sku":"","price":6250.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0624\/2969\/2075\/files\/IMG_3565_copy.jpg?v=1728181196"},{"product_id":"the-first-recorded-suggestion-of-continental-drift-thesaurus-geographicus-1596-orteliuis-plantin","title":"The First recorded suggestion of Continental Drift - Thesaurus Geographicus - 1596 - Ortelius - Plantin","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Thesaurus Geographicus\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-Abraham Ortelius \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-Published in 1596 by Christopher Plantin\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-Complete\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-Early 18th Century binding - Rebacked to style\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis book is the first recorded suggestion of continental drift. Ortelius first postulates that the coasts of Africa and the Americas had once existed side by side. In his description of Gadricus, Plato's name for Atlantis, he writes: \"If someone brings forward a map of the world and considers carefully the coasts of Europe, Africa and America where they face each other, the vestiges of the rupture reveal themselves\". \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis book was published by the famous publishers Plantin and Moretus in Antwerp which still exists to this day as a museum (and is well worth a visit!)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"De Bry Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42997933736107,"sku":"","price":2500.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0624\/2969\/2075\/files\/IMG_2626_2.heic?v=1725004450"},{"product_id":"extremely-rare-west-africa-siebende-schiffahrt-in-das-goldreiche-konigreich-guineam-in-africa-gelegen-hulsius-1624-pieter-de-marees","title":"West Africa -  \"Siebende Schiffahrt. 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Hulsius publications were produced for a mass readership and therefore often used cheaper paper. For this reason few copies survive as they were often not kept. They are much rarer than the more lavishly produced editions by the De Bry family which were aimed at the aristocracy and rich merchants.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e-All Hulsius parts are rare, and those that survive frequently are lacking plates or maps\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003ePieter de Marees’s \u003ci\u003eBeschrijvinghe ende Historische verhael van het Gout Koninckrijck van Guinea\u003c\/i\u003e (1602) is the most important European work on West Africa of the seventeenth century. A Dutch merchant sailing from Enkhuizen, little else is known about De Marees apart from this account of his voyage to the Gold Coast around 1597. 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Some stains and foxing. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"language: en-GB; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0in; text-align: center; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"language: en-GB; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0in; text-align: center; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003eThis is an early book by Nishikawa Sukenobu entitled Ehon Makuzugahara – “The book of Makuzugahara” (a place in Kyoto)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"language: en-GB; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0in; text-align: center; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"language: en-GB; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0in; text-align: center; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003eSukenobu (1671-1750) was trained under both Chinese (Kano) and Japanese (Tosa) artistic schools and became an important Ukiyo-e artist based in Kyoto. 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mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003eHiroshige II and Kunisada (Toyokuni III)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"language: en-GB; line-height: normal; text-indent: -.17in; text-align: center; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; margin: 5.53pt 0in 0pt .35in;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Inter; mso-bidi-font-family: Inter; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003ePrinted by Hiranoya Sinzo in 1864\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"language: en-GB; line-height: normal; text-indent: -.17in; text-align: center; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; margin: 5.53pt 0in 0pt .35in;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; 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mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003eTitle page plus 32 (of 36) prints \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"language: en-GB; line-height: normal; text-indent: -.17in; text-align: center; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; margin: 5.53pt 0in 0pt .35in;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Inter; mso-bidi-font-family: Inter; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003eCondition - Beautiful bold colours with no fading to these unbacked prints. Wormholes to the edges of a few prints with minor restoration to the image. Unbacked prints in accordion format with silk covers. Creases to a few unbacked prints.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"language: en-GB; line-height: normal; text-indent: -.17in; text-align: center; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; margin: 5.53pt 0in 0pt .35in;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Inter; mso-bidi-font-family: Inter; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003eFollowing the success of Hiroshige I and Kunisada’s collaborative work - ”The twin brushes 53 stations of the Tokaido Road\" - \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Inter; mso-bidi-font-family: Inter; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003et\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Inter; mso-bidi-font-family: Inter; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003ehis series combined beautiful backgrounds by Hiroshige II alongside images of figures by Kunisada. The album sought to celebrate daily life and festivities \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Inter; mso-bidi-font-family: Inter; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003ein\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Inter; mso-bidi-font-family: Inter; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003e the capital city, and includes images of life around Edo - modern day Tokyo. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Inter; mso-bidi-font-family: Inter; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003eThe compositions\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Inter; mso-bidi-font-family: Inter; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003e use vibrant blues and reds with the traditional artistic style used by the Hiroshige artists. Memorable images in the series include a man punting across a river in the snow, and a firework scene from the a pleasure boat.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"language: en-GB; line-height: normal; text-indent: -.17in; text-align: center; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; margin: 5.53pt 0in 0pt .35in;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Inter; mso-bidi-font-family: Inter; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003eHiroshige II (1826-1869) married Hiroshige’s\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Inter; mso-bidi-font-family: Inter; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003e daughter, and inherited \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Inter; mso-bidi-font-family: Inter; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003eHiroshige I’s\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Inter; mso-bidi-font-family: Inter; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003e name \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Inter; mso-bidi-font-family: Inter; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003eon \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Inter; mso-bidi-font-family: Inter; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003ehis death in 1858. 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Large border copy.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; text-align: center;\" align=\"center\" class=\"MsoNormal\" data-mce-style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Cambria',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; letter-spacing: .45pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;\" data-mce-style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Cambria',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; letter-spacing: .45pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eBooks of hours were printed in various formats at this time: on paper, on vellum with some heightening of text, and on vellum with fine red, blue and gold illumination of text and illustrations. \u003cb\u003eThis is the most luxurious format of the books - printed on vellum and with full hand illumination from the workshop of Hardouin.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; text-align: center;\" align=\"center\" class=\"MsoNormal\" data-mce-style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Cambria',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; letter-spacing: .45pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;\" data-mce-style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Cambria',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; letter-spacing: .45pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e6 large and 31 small illuminated illustrations are included in the text.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Cambria',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; letter-spacing: .45pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;\" data-mce-style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Cambria',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; letter-spacing: .45pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e The large and small illustrations are lavishly illuminated in gold and delicately highlighted in colour by a contemporary hand. The large illustrations have several further miniature decorative illustrations and are surrounded by acanthus floral borders.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; text-align: center;\" align=\"center\" class=\"MsoNormal\" data-mce-style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Cambria',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; letter-spacing: .45pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;\" data-mce-style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Cambria',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; letter-spacing: .45pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eCollation:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Cambria',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; letter-spacing: .45pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;\" data-mce-style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Cambria',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; letter-spacing: .45pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e 86 (of 96 leaves) only. Large 8vo (215 x 135mm) with particularly wide margins. Signatures A8-M8 (Missing 10 leaves including the title and several large miniatures).  Text in Latin and French, Gothic type, 32 lines.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; text-align: center;\" align=\"center\" class=\"MsoNormal\" data-mce-style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Cambria',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; letter-spacing: .45pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;\" data-mce-style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Cambria',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; letter-spacing: .45pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eContents include an Almanac for the years 1497-1520, a calendar, The passion according to St John, The hours of the Virgin, the Seven Penitential psalms, the Office of the Dead, Prayers for saint days and other important prayers including Obsecro Te, O Intemerata, and Stabat Mater.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;\" class=\"MsoNormal\" data-mce-style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Cambria',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; letter-spacing: .45pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;\" data-mce-style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Cambria',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; letter-spacing: .45pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eCondition \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Cambria',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; letter-spacing: .45pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;\" data-mce-style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Cambria',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; letter-spacing: .45pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eMinor wear to binding and some marks to Vellum leaves. Some small losses to text (?early) with replacement by hand. Later 19\u003csup\u003eth\u003c\/sup\u003e Century worn rd velvet binding with wear and significant losses at hinges. Large pages with wide margins. \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eStaining to vellum of first and last few leaves. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;\" class=\"MsoNormal\" data-mce-style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Cambria',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; letter-spacing: .45pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;\" data-mce-style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Cambria',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; letter-spacing: .45pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eThis is an early printed Book of Hours (Horae) from the Workshop of Gilles Hardouyn (Hardouin). Hardouin was the foremost producer of books of hours in Paris at the time, and was active from the late 1490s until the mid 1540s. This is a very early Book from his workshop. Many well known individuals, including Anne Boleyn and Thomas Cromwell, owned a book of hours from his workshop. Chappiel printed only three Books of Hours for Hardouin from 1500 to 1504, so editions from his press are uncommon. Giles Hardouin would go on to publish several further editions with his brother, Germain Hardouyn (Hardouin). \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003cb\u003eThis edition was published on 24th November 1503. Another edition of this text was published on the same day - it had engraved borders around the text, but was not designed for illumination. (\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003eTenschert et Iettekoven, I, n° 38 et 39)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;\" class=\"MsoNormal\" data-mce-style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Cambria',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; letter-spacing: .45pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;\" data-mce-style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Cambria',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; letter-spacing: .45pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIllumination: \u003c\/strong\u003eThe images in this copy are particularly finely illuminated and must have been executed for a high end client. The illumination resembles the format that was commonly used in manuscript books of hours around this time. There is extensive use of liquid gold and all illuminations have several extra borders including floral acanthus decoration surrounding the illuminated engravings. This copy is an early Hardouyn, and was illuminated before the more standardised \"workshop\" illumination format developed. The illumination differs from the usual style found in Hardouin copies from 1510s, and especially the 1520s onwards.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; text-align: center;\" align=\"center\" class=\"MsoNormal\" data-mce-style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Cambria',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; letter-spacing: .45pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;\" data-mce-style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Cambria',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; letter-spacing: .45pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eAs with all early printed books of hours the number of surviving copies is low. \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Cambria',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; letter-spacing: .45pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e(\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003eTenschert et Iettekoven, I, n° 38 et 39).  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eUSTC (16089)\u003c\/strong\u003e states that there are 4 copies of this book only: 2 in Paris (Bibliotheque National and Beçanson) and 2 in the USA (Morgan Library and Texas University). \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c!----\u003e","brand":"De Bry Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44204888653995,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0624\/2969\/2075\/files\/IMG_10392.jpg?v=1719118538"},{"product_id":"indiae-orientalis-pars-x","title":"“Indiae Orientalis Pars X”","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"page\" title=\"Page 23\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"section\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"layoutArea\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"column\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“Indiae Orientalis Pars X” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“Qui continetur... Discursus ad sereniss Hispaniae regem, super detecta nuper quinta oris parte, Terra nempe Australi incongita, a Capitaneo quodam Petro- Ferdinando de Quir...”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"page\" title=\"Page 23\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"section\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"layoutArea\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"column\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e-Theodor De Bry \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e-1613 - 1st Latin Edition published in Frankfurt by Matthias Becker\u003cbr\u003e-32 pages (inc Title page), Letterpress title page to plates and 3 plates (complete text and title page but LACKING the 3 maps) \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e-Unbound \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis is Part 10 of De Bry’s Petits Voyages which contains the important account of the Spanish voyages of the Pacific written by Pedro Fernandes de Queiros. The book also contains two other accounts of voyages: Hudson ’s search for the North West Passage to China and Japan (and discovery of Hudson bay), and Linschoten’s search for the North East Passage to the Far East. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDe Queiros was a Portuguese Navigator who served the Spanish Monarchy for most of his life. In 1595 he first travelled to the pacific with Alvaro de Mendana y Neira on a voyage across the Pacific to the Solomon Islands and the Philippines. After returning, he petitioned the Spanish King to search for Terra Australis, eventually departing Peru in 1605 and passed The Pitcairn Islands, The Cook Islands and Kiribati. He likely sighted Tahiti but avoided French Polynesia and New Zealand due to a change in course, eventually arriving in Vanuatu. 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unicode-bidi: embed;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e17\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; vertical-align: super; mso-text-raise: 30%; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003eth\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003e Century near contemporary full calf with wide \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003eborders\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"language: en-GB; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0in; text-align: center; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"language: en-GB; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0in; text-align: center; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003eSome wear, stains light moisture marks to pages. Binding joints strengthened (not \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003ere-backed).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"language: en-GB; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0in; text-align: center; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"language: en-GB; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0in; text-align: center; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003eFolio - 34 x 23 cm\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"language: en-GB; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0in; text-align: center; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"language: en-GB; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0in; text-align: center; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003eCollation (Complete): TP, [3], 362, 56, TP, Map, 25 plates, TP, 100, TP, 14 plates\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"language: en-GB; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0in; text-align: center; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"language: en-GB; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0in; text-align: center; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003eThe ninth part of De \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003eBry\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003e Grands Voyages contains 3 separate accounts: Acosta’s “Historia natural y moral de las \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003eIndias\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003e”, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003eSebald\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003e de \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003eWeert’s\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003e voyage to the Spice Islands by way of the Straights of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003eMagellan\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003e, and Olivier van \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003eNoort’s\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003e Circumnavigation. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"language: en-GB; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0in; text-align: center; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"language: en-GB; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0in; text-align: center; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003eThe book is an important early source on Japan as it contains two of the earliest images of the Japanese.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"language: en-GB; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0in; text-align: center; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003eThe first image, which appears in Acosta’s description of the Indies, shows the Japanese weighing their sins in a large scale over the edge of a cliff\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"language: en-GB; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0in; text-align: center; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"language: en-GB; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0in; text-align: center; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003eThe \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003esecond is a depiction of Japanese samurai merchants by Van \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003eNoort\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003e with the caption:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"language: en-GB; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0in; text-align: center; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e“\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003eWhen the Hollanders were no longer far from the coast, they had a ship from Japan meet them, the ships of which are here alluded to. They are of a tall and erect body, dressed in the habit of the Poles, and clothed with the promised tunics. The first among these was your precious silk, conspicuously interwoven with flowers. They are skilful and industrious soldiers who know how to use weapons such as bows, spears and guns, very efficiently. The entire head is shaved apart from the nape of the neck they have a knot of hair.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"language: en-GB; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0in; text-align: center; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"language: en-GB; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0in; text-align: center; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;\" data-mce-style=\"language: en-GB; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0in; text-align: center; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; 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text-align: center;\" align=\"center\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 20.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; letter-spacing: .45pt; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e\"The Principall Navigations, Voiages, and Discoveries of the English Nation, Made by Sea or Over-land…”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; text-align: center;\" align=\"center\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 20.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; letter-spacing: .45pt; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;\"\u003ePublished in London in 1589 by George Bishop\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; text-align: center;\" align=\"center\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 20.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; letter-spacing: .45pt; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eRichard Hakluyt (1553-1616)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; text-align: center;\" align=\"center\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; letter-spacing: .45pt; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e-FIRST EDITION – here complete of all text including the Bowes leaves in 2\u003csup\u003end\u003c\/sup\u003e state and the Drake leaves.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; text-align: center;\" align=\"center\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; letter-spacing: .45pt; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eCollation: Folio (1 volume)\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003exvi, 1-501 (Bowes leaves in 2\u003csup\u003end\u003c\/sup\u003e state from pp 491-501) 506-643 (12 Drake leaves) 644-825 with colophon at end of text (Complete text).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; text-align: center;\" align=\"center\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; letter-spacing: .45pt; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eGenerally, very good condition. Some side-notes and upper titles are trimmed. Title page backed. Title page backed. 19th Century calf, with spine rebacked. Some annotations and old names to title page and text.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: center;\" align=\"center\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; letter-spacing: .45pt; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eThis work is a cornerstone for any travel library and a celebrated work of English literature in its own right. It contains detailed accounts of all early travel before 1590 including many never before published and important early voyages to America.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: center;\" align=\"center\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; text-align: center;\" align=\"center\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; letter-spacing: .45pt; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eTwo alterations were made during the course of the printing of Hakluyt’s voyages. Francis Drake’s circumnavigation was added at late notice as a 12 leave addition between pages 643 and 644. The Bowes leaves, which described Sir Jerome Bowes’s embassy to Moscow were amended at the request of the Muscovy company (or perhaps Francis Walsingham – Queen Elizabeth’s minster). The second state of the Bowes leaves, as found in this copy, run from pages 491-501 and account for the pagination gap (as the first state leaves were paginated 491-505).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: center;\" align=\"center\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; letter-spacing: .45pt; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eHakluyt was a strong proponent of exploration, trade and settlement in America, and was a leading member of the Virginia company in London. In the 1580s, he spent 5 years as an English ambassador in Paris, where he learnt of the importance of trade with America. While there, he collected information on English and European merchants and \"made diligent inquirie of such things as might yield any light unto our Westerne discoveries in America\". Hakluyt returned to London in 1588 and soon after published this his most famous work – “The Principall Navigations”.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: center;\" align=\"center\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: center;\" align=\"center\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; letter-spacing: .45pt; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eHakluyt is also remembered for his contribution to English literature as the travel works he wrote, and those he encouraged to be translated, directly influenced the writings of Shakespeare.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: center;\" align=\"center\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: center;\" align=\"center\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eAnnotations: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: center;\" align=\"center\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e “George Spurstowe is the owner of this B[ooke] - 1594” is written on the last page of the book.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is likely George Spurstowe (1550-c1604), who was born in the small village of Spurstowe, Cheshire, into the landed class. He was forced into a child marriage at Hatton hall at the age of 6(!), but was divorced by the age of 13 and went on to have 2 children by his second marriage.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eInterestingly, another contemporary from George’s small village of Spurstowe, who was likely a childhood friend, was Laurence Aldersey. Laurence travelled to Egypt and Jerusalem on two voyages and had his account published in Hakluyt’s travels (pp224-227). Perhaps George bought the book to read about his friend's adventures?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGeorge annotated the back page with a description of lengths and measures - describing feet, yards, leagues and miles. Inside he annotated the Travels of John Mandeville to Egypt and the Middle East. Perhaps he chose to read and annotate this passage so carefully because he wanted to learn more about where his friend Laurence had been? Despite having many inaccuracies and myths, Mandeville’s account was the go to book at the time to learn about the Holy Land.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: center;\" align=\"center\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"De Bry Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44488553201835,"sku":"","price":22500.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0624\/2969\/2075\/files\/PHOTO-2025-04-10-21-43-41_abb4e502-2949-4e3a-9b9c-0b164ca2d6b1.jpg?v=1744278977"},{"product_id":"a-report-of-the-kingdome-of-congo-a-region-of-africa-and-of-the-countries-that-border-rounde-about-the-same-1597-john-wolfe","title":"\"A report of the kingdome of Congo, a region of Africa And of the countries that border rounde about the same\" - 1597 - John Wolfe","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"A report of the kingdome of Congo, a region of Africa And of the countries that border rounde about the same\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e-Printed in London, John Wolfe, 1597\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e-Translated by Abraham Hartwell\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e-pp. [20], 215, [3]: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003ci\u003e[fleuron]\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003csup\u003e4\u003c\/sup\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e, *\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003csup\u003e4\u003c\/sup\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e, 2*\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003csup\u003e2\u003c\/sup\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e, A-2E\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003csup\u003e4 \u003c\/sup\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e(Lacking 2 blank leaves: 2*2 and A1 )\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e-10 full page woodblock illustrations including the first English image of a Zebra and an early depiction of a banana tree.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e-Two Maps not present\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e-18th Century Calf (rebacked) with marbled end papers\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThis is the rare english translation of Lopez's voyage to Africa by Pigafetta, first published in Italian in 1591. Hartwell was encouraged to translate Lopez's account of Africa after meeting Richard Hakluyt doing so \"to help our English nation, that they might knowe and understand many things, which are common in other languages, but utterly concealed from this poore island\".\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe work described the journey of Duarte lopez though the Congo in 1578 to 1584. Lopes met Pigafetta in Rome after his return in the late 1580s, and subsequently published the work and maps. De Bry produced this edition as part one of his famous Petits voyages.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLopez was a Portuguese trader who travelled around what is now Angola and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. 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Later 20th Century binding.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSyphilis was likely introduced to Europe from South America following Columbuses return from the New World. The first large outbreak was recorded among French troops after the 1494 Siege of Naples. The disease had many names but Italians of course blamed the French troops so it became known by them as the  French Disease.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe name Syphilis comes from this poem by Fracastoro first published in 1531, here in an early 3rd edition of 1536. In the poem, Syphilis was a young shepherd who cursed Apollo for having to tend his sheep during the blazing midday sun. As punishment - perhaps a little harshly - Apollo gave the young shepherd syphilis. This poem went through many editions and the name Syphilis unusually survives to this day, while many other anachronistic medical names have not. The book also discusses various treatments - all of which were ineffective - but helped it reach a broader audience.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEarly editions of this work are rare on the market Fracastoro's statue still stands above an arch in Vicenza holding a globe. It is said that when an honest man walks under the arch he will drop the globe. It remains firmly in his hands to this day.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"De Bry Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44495213658283,"sku":"","price":1750.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0624\/2969\/2075\/files\/IMG_8234.jpg?v=1725662466"},{"product_id":"rare-appendix-congo-and-regnum-congo-1598-and-1625-with-large-maps","title":"Rare \"Appendix Congo\" AND \"Regnum Congo\" 1598 and 1625 with large maps - Complete 1st editions","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003cspan\u003e\"Regnum Congo hoc est Vera descriptio regni Africani, \u003c\/span\u003equod tam ab Incolis quam Lusitanis Congus appellatur\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAND\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"Appendix Regni Congo : Qua Continentur Navigationes quinque Samuelis Brunonis, Civis [et] Chirurgi Basileensis, quas recenti admodum memoria animose suscepit [et] feliciter perfecit ... , Omnia Ab Ipso Quidem Authore Germanico Idiomate conscripta, nun ver\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e-Theodor de Bry published by Wolfgang Richter in Frankfurt \u0026amp; \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003cspan\u003eJohann Theodor de Bry \u0026amp; Kaspar Rötel in Frankfurt\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e-1598 and 1625\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e-19th Century quarter calf\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRegnum Congo (Complete 1st edition):\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e-TP, [3], 1-60, [index 3], letterpress title to plates,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e-14 (of 14 plates).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e-3 (of 3) folding maps (2 of which are joined)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAppendix Congo (Complete 1st edition):\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-TP, [6], 86 \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCombined \"Regnum Congo\" (Part 1) and \"Appendix Congo\" (Appendix to part 1) which form part one with the rare appendix of De Bry's petit voyages.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\"Vera Descriptio Regini Africani\" was printed in Frankfurt in 1598, and is based on the Pigafetta version, published in 1591. The work described the journey of Duarte lopes though the Congo in 1578 to 1584. Lopes met Pigafetta in Rome after his return in the late 1580s, and subsequently published the work and maps. De Bry produced this edition as part one of his famous Petits voyages.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLopes was a Portuguese trader who travelled around what is now Angola and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. He was appointed ambassador to Spain for the king of Congo and sought to trade in Gold and precious metals, while brining Christianity to Africa.\u003c\/span\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe maps of Africa are important as they rejects the long-held Ptolemaic belief of the Mountains of the Moon as the source for the Nile River. Instead, the map depicts two lakes which feed the main rivers of Africa. The lower lake feeds the Rio de Manhic (Zambezi) and the Lorenzo Marches (Limpopo), and the northern one feeds the Nile, with a river connecting the two lakes. The maps, alongside the general map of Africa, became an important source on central Africa and the Congo, and was frequently used by later writers and mapmakers\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAppendix Congo contains the account of Samuel Braun - A German speaking Swiss Doctor - in his travels to West Africa. It is the first German account of West Africa and contains the record of 5 voyages. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"In his travel report, written at the suggestion of his friend, Pastor Johannes Gross, the first scientific work on West Africa in German, he shared in a factual, insightful presentation a wealth of observations, particularly ethnographically valuable, which are far above the level of contemporary travel literature and were only recognized in their true significance at the end of the 19th century.\" (Heinrich Buess)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Five accounts are\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e-1611–1613 on the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMeermann\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e under Captain \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan\u003eJohann Pietrszoon\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e to Guinea\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e-1614–1616 on the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWeisser Hund\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e to the Ivory Coast and Guinea\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e-1616–1617 on the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOranienbaum\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e under Captain \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHeinrich Willems Puis\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e to the Mediterranean to Lisbon and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eafter shipwreck and subsequent rescue to the Spanish coast on the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan\u003eGolden Valk\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e to Venice.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e-1617–1620 on the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan\u003eGelderland\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e to Sierra Leone and the Gold Coast\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e-1620–1621 on the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEdam\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e under Captain \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThomas Pieterssen\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e to the eastern Mediterranean to Aleppo.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAppendix Congo is uncommon on the market and is a famous rarity for De Bry collectors: USTC \u003cspan\u003e2111168 (7 copies only)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"De Bry Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44495308292267,"sku":"","price":17500.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0624\/2969\/2075\/files\/IMG_53862.heic?v=1725665302"},{"product_id":"wunderbarliche-doch-warhafftige-erklarung-vonder-gelegenheit-vnd-sitten-der-wilden-in-virginia-2nd-german-edition-of-de-brys-admiranda-narratio-a-brief-and-true-report-thomas-harriot-1600","title":"Wunderbarliche, doch warhafftige Erklärung, vonder Gelegenheit vnd Sitten der Wilden in Virginia - 2nd German Edition of De Bry's \"Admiranda Narratio\" \/ A Brief and True report - Thomas Harriot - 1600","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\"Wunderbarliche, doch warhafftige Erklärung, vonder Gelegenheit vnd Sitten der Wilden in Virginia\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e-2nd German Edition of De Bry's \"Admiranda Narratio\" \/ A Brief and True report\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e-Thomas Harriot\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e- 1600\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e- Complete text but missing 2 plates, the map, and the image of Adam and Eve\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e- Collation: TP, Dedication, 7-31, Letterpress TP to plates, register, Plates II-XXII, Letter press title to picts, 4 pict plates with accompanying leaves, register and colophon\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMissing the map\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e25 (of 28) plates. Present are 21 (of 22) plates of the Algonquian First Nation (missing plate 1), 4 (of 5) of the Picts. Lacking\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e the Plate of Adam and Eve.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePlate 7 in German 1st edition (and numbered 8)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e-Unbound\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e-Good condition but pages different sizes, some stains and tears. Would benefit from restoration and rebinding.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThis famous work is a cornerstone of all collections on early Americana. The expedition was funded by Walter Raleigh and aimed to found a colony in the New World, the failed colony at Roanoke. Thomas Harriot's account was written to encourage support and to fund colonisation of the New World. It give a sympathetic (sometimes exaggerated) account of the fertility of the new world and the kind and healthy First Nations living there. Famously the the engravings are based on images by John White who drew some of the most important images of the Algonquian First Nations who resided in the Outer Banks.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca rel=\"noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/debryrarebooks.com\/pages\/grand-voyages\" href=\"https:\/\/debryrarebooks.com\/pages\/grand-voyages\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eClick here for other parts of De Bry's Grands Voyages\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"De Bry Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44496147185835,"sku":"","price":8000.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0624\/2969\/2075\/files\/IMG_0952_a2363a0b-5a3f-4aa6-9405-22c6d2f548e8.jpg?v=1725689995"},{"product_id":"america-tertia-pars-de-bry-1592-1st-edition-in-latin-in-original-vellum-binding","title":"Part 3 De Bry Grands Voyages - America Tertia Pars - Brasiliae Historiam - History of Brazil - De Bry - 1592 - 1st Edition in Latin - Hans Staden - Jean de Lery","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"page\" title=\"Page 133\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"layoutArea\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"column\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"AMERICAE TERTIA PARS, Memorabile provinciae Brasiliae Historiam continens, germanico primum sermone scriptam a loane Stadio Hombergensi Hesso, nunc autem latinitate donatam a Teucrio Annaeo Privato Colchanthe Po: Med:Addita est Narratio profectionis loannis Lerii in eamdem Provinciam, quam ille initio gallice conscripsit, postea vero Latinam fecit. His accessit Descriptio Morum Ferocitatis incolarum illius Regionis, atque Colloquium ipsorum idiomate conscriptum\" \"Omnia recens evulgata, eiconibus in aes incisis ac ad vivum expressis illustrata, ad normam exemplaris praedictorum Autorum : studio ; diligentia Theodori de Bry Leodiensis, atque civis Francofurtensis anno MDXCII\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-1st Latin edition of Part 3 of De Bry's Grands Voyages which describes early voyages to Brazil by Hans Staden and Jean de Lery \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-Collation (complete): [16], 1-134, TP, 137-284, TP, 287-296, [7 Index leaves, colophon].\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-45 (of 45) engravings in text\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-Includes the Map of Brazil - \"Americae Pars Magnis Cognita\" (with restoration to lower part)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-In original vellum binding with title to spine Condition: Overall Good copy in original binding with wide margins, with restoration (with facsimile) to map, and 13 illustrated pages have been tipped in from another copy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis celebrated work is one of the earliest to describe the Tupinamba peoples of South America. The woodcuts were first included in the 1580 French edition and are here expanded. Lery took part in Villegagnon's failed expedition to found a French colony in Brazil - \"France Antarctique\". This Protestant expedition had set out to escape the French wars of Religion. The colony was founded in present day Rio de Janeiro and Lery spent time exploring the local area. He gives an accurate description of the flora and fauna of the region, but the book is best known for its sympathetic description of the Tupinamba peoples. This is one of the most important early descriptions before increasing European interaction changed their way of life. He records the Tupinamba in engaged in war and cannibalism - which was controversial in Europe on his return. The description greatly influenced later French writers including Levi-Strauss and is still used by modern day anthropologists. Of importance, this edition is one of the first to include notation of Tupinamba music in the text. The second part contains the account of Hans von Staden, who spent 2 years living with the Tupinamba Indians in The Amazon jungle after being captured by them. On returning to Europe he wrote his account, first published in 1557, which described their way of life including their cannibal tendencies. The work was a sensation when published in Europe, and De Bry produced this fine edition with beautiful copper plate engravings, more detailed than the crude original woodblock prints. A nice copy in original binding, but with faults as described.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca rel=\"noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/debryrarebooks.com\/pages\/grand-voyages\" href=\"https:\/\/debryrarebooks.com\/pages\/grand-voyages\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eClick here for other Parts of De Bry's Grands Voyages\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"De Bry Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44496192831659,"sku":"","price":8500.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0624\/2969\/2075\/files\/IMG_9176.heic?v=1725692361"},{"product_id":"part-7-de-bry-grands-voyages-das-vii-theil-america-ulrich-schmidel-1599-argentina-buenos-aires","title":"Part 7 De Bry Grands Voyages - \"Das VII Theil America\" - Ulrich Schmidel - 1597 - Argentina \/ Buenos Aires","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Das VII Theil America.\" - Part 7 De Bry's Grands Voyages in German\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Warhafftige unnd liebliche beschreibung etlicher furnemmen Indianischen Lanschafften und Insulen, die vormals in Keiner Chronicken gedacht, und erstlich in der Schiffart Ulrici Schmidts von Straubingen, mit fgrosser gefahr erkundigt, und von ihm selber auffs fleissigst beschreiben und dargethan.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-Published in Frankfurt in 1597 by Theodore de Bry\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-TP, [1], 1-31 numbered leaves (Complete) including 1 engraved plate on page 7.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-Bound in modern quarter calf. Tightly trimmed in places, but no loss of text. Toning to pages. Binding fine condition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is the important account of Ulrich Schmidel (or Schmidl), famous for taking part in Mendoza's 1534 exploration of the River Plata and for being one of the founders of Buenos Aires.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSchmidl was born in Germany and was employed as a Landsknecht, or mercenary. The son of a wealthy merchant, in 1534 he joined Pedro de Mendoza's expedition to Argentina and the Rio de la Plata, which led to the foundation of Buenos Aires.  He stayed in South America until 1552, and during his 18 years on the continent was involved in important expeditions to Paraguay, with Juan de Ayolas and Domingo Irala, where he helped found Asuncion.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOn his return he wrote an account of his time in South America, which remains an important primary source, especially as it was not written by a Spanish hand so does not suffer from the same biases. His account describes the indigenous American nations, many of which were wiped out by the Conquistadores. Europeans often described these first nations as primitive as they practiced cannibalism, but in this account Schmidl describes the Spanish also eating their own countrymen and practicing cannibalism.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/debryrarebooks.com\/pages\/grand-voyages\" title=\"https:\/\/debryrarebooks.com\/pages\/grand-voyages\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eFor other parts of the Grands voyages please click here\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"De Bry Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44497406853291,"sku":"","price":4000.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0624\/2969\/2075\/files\/IMG_2695.jpg?v=1725743037"},{"product_id":"incunabula-eusebiuss-chronicon-erhard-ratdolt-1483","title":"Incunabula - Eusebius's Chronicon - Erhard Ratdolt 1483","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"An important incunable which contains early references to the Olympic victors and to Gutenberg's invention of the Western Printing Press. Ratdolt's skilled Typography would influence William Morris and the 19th Century Fine Press movement \"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-Eusebius's \"Chronicon\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-Published by Erhard Ratdolt in Venice\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-1483\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-Complete text - 170 pages (a-v8,x10 - with first and last blank leaves). Without the 12 page index.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"letter-spacing: .45pt;\"\u003e-Later 18th Century vellum binding. Very good condition with clean, thick paper. Faded water stains to the upper third of the paper, mostly in the first third of the book. Some loosening of quires but remains bound.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \"Chronicon\", or Chronicles, were written by Eusebius \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e (265-339), a Greek\/Syrian historian of Christianity who lived in the later stages of the Roman empire. He was well regarded as a scholar of the Bible and wrote the Chronicon in the 4th Century AD. In its initial format, the work contained a history of the world from the time of Abraham until Constatine I's rule in the 4th Century. It was written in tabular format to include important dates in the history of the world and the Church. Interestingly it includes the names of Olympic victors from 776 BC until AD 217 - an almost 1000 year period.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlongside the writings of Eusebius, this 15th Century work contains the continuation of Prosper aquitanus (until 448), Mattheus Palmerius Florentinus (until 1448) and Matthias Palmerius Pisanus (until 1481). 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mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003eHistoire\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003e de la navigation... aux \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; 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font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Inter; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003eLinschoten\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Inter; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"language: en-GB; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0in; text-align: center; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; margin: 0pt 0in 0pt 0in;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Inter; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003eAmsterdam - Evert \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Inter; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003eCloppenburgh\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Inter; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003e – 1619\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"language: en-GB; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0in; text-align: center; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; margin: 0pt 0in 0pt 0in;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Inter; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003e(2\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Inter; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; vertical-align: super; mso-text-raise: 30%; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003end\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Inter; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003e French edition)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"language: en-GB; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0in; text-align: center; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; margin: 0pt 0in 0pt 0in;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"language: en-GB; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0in; text-align: center; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; margin: 0pt 0in 0pt 0in;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Inter; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003eFolio, (30 x 20cm \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Inter; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003eapprox\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Inter; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003e ). 4 ff., 205 pp., 2 ff., 181 pp., 1 ff., 86 pp., \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"language: en-GB; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0in; text-align: center; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; margin: 0pt 0in 0pt 0in;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"language: en-GB; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0in; text-align: center; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; margin: 0pt 0in 0pt 0in;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Inter; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003eComplete with three illustrated title pages, a portrait of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Inter; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003eLinschoten\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Inter; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003e, 6 (of 6) maps and 36 (of 36) beautiful illustrations drawn by \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Inter; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003eLinschoten\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Inter; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003e and engraved by Johannes van \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Inter; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003eDoetecum\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Inter; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003e. The maps include \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Inter; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003ePlancius’s\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Inter; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003e famous world map and five maps engraved by \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Inter; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003eLangren\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Inter; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003e of South America, East Africa, West Africa, The Middle East and India, and a map of South East Asia which shows Japan in its “Shrimp” outline. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Inter; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eThe plates include large folding plates of Goa and Terceira on the Azores.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"language: en-GB; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0in; text-align: center; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; margin: 0pt 0in 0pt 0in;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"language: en-GB; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0in; text-align: center; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; margin: 0pt 0in 0pt 0in;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Inter; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003eChapter 26 gives an extensive description of Japan including its climate, customs and trade. The skill of Japanese swordsmiths and artists is highlighted and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Inter; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003ethe swords\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Inter; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003ehigh price in the west.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"language: en-GB; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0in; text-align: center; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; margin: 0pt 0in 0pt 0in;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"language: en-GB; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0in; text-align: center; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; margin: 0pt 0in 0pt 0in;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Inter; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003eLater vellum binding with gold tooling. Text and plates Washed with good condition overall. Maps in good condition – area of repair to world map at upper centrefold with some facsimile repair\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Inter; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003e. Stain to upper border of Middle East map.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"language: en-GB; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0in; text-align: center; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; margin: 0pt 0in 0pt 0in;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"language: en-GB; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0in; text-align: center; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; margin: 0pt 0in 0pt 0in;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Inter; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003eThis hugely important work was published after \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Inter; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003eLinschoten's\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Inter; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003e extended stay in Portuguese Goa where he worked for the Viceroy. Here \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Inter; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003eLinschoten\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Inter; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003e learnt much about the inhabitants and culture in the East which he used to\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003edescribe trade opportunities, with China, Japan and the Spice Islands. This information was hugely important and allowed the Dutch, and later the English, to break the Portuguese trade monopoly in the East.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"language: en-GB; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0in; text-align: center; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; margin: 0pt 0in 0pt 0in;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"language: en-GB; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0in; text-align: center; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; margin: 0pt 0in 0pt 0in;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Inter; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003eChurch states that \"Fine copies of this work with all the Maps and Plates are extremely rare, for the reason that, the book was so popular for a century after its publication, that it was given to each ship sailing from Holland to India\".\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"language: en-GB; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0in; text-align: center; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; margin: 0pt 0in 0pt 0in;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"language: en-GB; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0in; text-align: center; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; margin: 0pt 0in 0pt 0in;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Inter; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003eUSTC - 10327720 – 3 copies in USA\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"De Bry Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51881233809786,"sku":"","price":50000.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0624\/2969\/2075\/files\/IMG_9667.jpg?v=1730524863"},{"product_id":"1745-book-of-common-prayer-in-lovely-original-binding-and-with-contemporary-ownership-description-of-ann-chilman","title":"1745 Book of Common Prayer in Lovely original binding and with contemporary ownership description of Ann Chilman","description":"\u003cp id=\"book-title\"\u003e\"THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER, And Administration of the Sacraments, and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, According to the Use of the Church of England: Together with the Psalter or Psalms of David, Pointed as they are to be sung or said in Churches.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAND:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"THE WHOLE BOOK OF PSALMS, by Thomas Sternhold, John Hopkins, and Others, Conferred with the Hebrew. 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They often contain important records of women's and men's ownership, which give us a personal link to the past.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA nice original example of the Book of Common Prayer and Psalms in contemporary binding and with the first owner's inscription in a fine hand.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"De Bry Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51890976129402,"sku":"","price":450.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0624\/2969\/2075\/files\/b2d87302-5633-4cd8-adc0-a43f5df3187d.jpg?v=1730960091"},{"product_id":"a-beautiful-set-of-images-depicting-traditional-japanese-landscapes-birds-and-flowers-by-taki-katei","title":"A beautiful set of images depicting traditional Japanese landscapes, birds and flowers by Taki Katei","description":"\u003cp style=\"language: en-GB; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0in; text-align: center; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; 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Some marks and staining at folds to images\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"language: en-GB; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0in; text-align: center; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"language: en-GB; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0in; text-align: center; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003eEach album contains 12 double page prints in traditional brush painting style. 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Silk sewing to corners and original sewing binding. Generally in very good condition. Original yellow covers with wear and marks. Maps very good. First volume has worm damage to three consecutive leaves in only, limited to margin outside maps, and one small hole to map on last page. Second volume has some worm damage to some maps, mostly minor. None is extensive. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eVolume 1: endpaper, title page, 14 double sided leaves of prefaces and catalogue of county names, 42 of maps with green and blue colour.\u003cbr\u003eVolume 2: 3 double sided leaves of catalogues, 34 of coloured maps, 1 with editor’s postscript. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEarly edition of this beautiful Atlas of Japan and its regions. Attractive printing using separate coloured woodblocks to print in yellow, green and blue. 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