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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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First Edition Bordone
With The First Appearance Of The First Separate Map Of Japan
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BORDONE, Benedetto di. 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, [Niccolo Zoppino], 1528.
Rare first edition of the second isolario to be printed and the first to give prominence to the transatlantic discoveries.
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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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The First Picture of Niagara Falls
& The First Picture of Buffalo
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HENNEPIN, Louis. Nouvelle Decouverte d'un tres grand Pays situans L'Amerique. Utrecht, Guillaume Broedelet, 1697.
Scarce first edition and very good copy of this widely read continuation of Hennepin's travelogue, called by Lande "one of the most important volumes in the early history of North America." Hennepin went as a missionary to Canada in 1675 and accompanied La Salle to the Illinois River in 1679/80.
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The First Separate Appearance Of Drake's Circumvigation And Las Casas En Frans
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LAS CASAS, Bartolome. Histoire des Indes Occidentales ov l'on reconnoit la bonte ces pa & de leurs peoples; & les cruautez Tyrannique des Espagnols. Lyon, Jean Caffin & F. Plaignard, 1642.
Scarce French-language editions of two important travel narratives, Las Casas's excoriating account of the Spanish in the New World and an early edition of the first separate appearance of Drake's epoch-making voyage.
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