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Earliest Isolario Relating To The New World
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BORDONE, Benedetto. Isolario. di Benedetto Bordone Nel qual si ragiona di tutte l'Isole del mondo, con li lor nomi antichi & moderni, historie, favole, & modi del loro vivere... Venice, Francesco di Leno, [c.1540].
Third edition of the Isolario, containing the “gionta del Monte del Oro novamente ritrovato,” mentioned on the title-page, the earliest description of Pizzaro’s conquest of Peru in book form.
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The Largest 17th-Century Celestial Globe Gores
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CORONELLI / NOLIN, Jean Baptiste / DEUVEZ, Arnoldus. Orbis Coelestis Typus Opus a P. Coronelli Min. Convent. Serenissimaeque Reipub. Venetae Cosmographo Inchoatum Societatis. Gallicae Sumptibus absolutum Lutetiae Parisiorum... [Paris, n.p., 1693].
A complete set of 24 gores plus 2 calottes for the separately issued Nolin-Deuvez edition of Coronelli's 1-meter- (3-) in-diameter celestial globe, the largest printed celestial globe up to its time, larger and more accurate than the globes by Blaeu and Hondius which preceded it.
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