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The Conquest of Peru For the First Time In French (1545)
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[PERU] L’histoire de la terre neuve du Perù en l’Inde Occidentale, que est la principale mine d’or du monde. Paris, Pierre Gaultier for Jean Barbé and Vincent Sertenas, 1545.
Very rare first French edition of the first printed account of the conquest of Peru (editio princeps 1534), including a dramatic rendering of the capture of the Inca king Atahualpa and hyperbolic estimates of the mineral wealth of a country which was quickly becoming the focus of the European gold rush in the New World.
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Early Eyewitness Account On The New World
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ACOSTA, Jos Tr. REGNAULT, Robert. Histoire Naturelle et Morale des Indes, tant Orientalles quOccidentales. O'est traictes choses remarquables du ciel, des elemens, Metaux, Plantes & Animaux qui sont propres de ces
. Paris, Marc Orry, 1598.
Scarce first French edition of this classic on the Natural History of Latin America.
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First Italian Edition
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ACOSTA, Jose.. Historia Naturale, e Morale Delle Indie; Scritta Dal R.P... Della Compagnia del Giesu; Nella quale si trattano le cose notabili del Cielo, & de gli Elementi, Metalli, Piante, & Animali di quelle: ... Venice, Bernardo Basa, 1596.
First Italian edition of Acosta's most important book (Spanish editio princeps Seville, 1590).
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ALVARES, Francisco. Historia de las Cosas de Etiopia, en la qual se Cuenta muy copiosamente, el estado y potécia del Emperador della, (que es el que muchos an pesado ser el Preste Juan)... Antwerp, Juan Steelsius, 1557.
Rare first Spanish language edition of one of the earliest detailed reports on Ethiopia available to Europeans: “incomparably more detailed than any earlier account of Ethiopia that has survived, it is also a very important source for Ethiopian history, for it was written just before the country was devastated by the Moslem Somali and pagan Galla invasions of the second quarter of the 16th century.” -- Hakluyt Society I., p. 12.
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The Second Japanese Embassy to Europe
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AMATI, Scipione. Historia del regno di Voxu del Giapone, dell, antichita, nobilta, e valore del suo re Idate Masamune... Rome, Giacomo Mascardi, 1615.
Very rare FIRST EDITION of this critical source for THE SECOND JAPANESE MISSION TO EUROPE of 1614, a Franciscan public relations event that sought to repeat the success of the first mission of 1585, which had been brilliantly engineered by their rivals the Jesuits and to inspire financial and political support.
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