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ANTONIO PIGAFETTA (1491-c.1534)
Premier Voyage autour du Monde sur l'escadre de Magellan, pendant le Années 1519, 20, 21 et 22; Suivi de l'extrait du Traité de Navigation du même auteur; et D'une Notice sur le chevalier Martin Behaim, avec la description de son Globe Terrestre. Paris: H.J. Jansen, 1801. 8° (201 x 122mm). 3 engraved folding maps, 7 engraved plates, four of these hand-coloured, one in-text engraving. (Half-title with light soiling, one map with short tear). Contemporary black half-morocco, flat spine ruled and lettered in gilt, edges green (extremities rubbed). Provenance: pressmark on pastedowns and in gutter of 2.6.
First edition in French of Pigafetta's account of Magellan's expedition, translated by Father Carlo Amoretti and published shortly after the discovery of an Italian version of Pigafetta's journal at the Ambrosiana Library in Milan. Until Amoretti's discovery of this manuscript, Pigafetta's journal of the first voyage of circumnavigation had only been published in a much abridged edition based on the Louisa of Savoy manuscript. The illustrations include a folding map of the Philippines, 4 hand-coloured plates, one of these of Cebu and Mactan islands, another of some of the Moluccas Islands, and a folding map of the world. Borba de Moraes II, p.146; Brunet IV, 650; Graesse V, p.289; Sabin 62805.
Premier Voyage autour du Monde sur l'escadre de Magellan, pendant le Années 1519, 20, 21 et 22; Suivi de l'extrait du Traité de Navigation du même auteur; et D'une Notice sur le chevalier Martin Behaim, avec la description de son Globe Terrestre. Paris: H.J. Jansen, 1801. 8° (201 x 122mm). 3 engraved folding maps, 7 engraved plates, four of these hand-coloured, one in-text engraving. (Half-title with light soiling, one map with short tear). Contemporary black half-morocco, flat spine ruled and lettered in gilt, edges green (extremities rubbed). Provenance: pressmark on pastedowns and in gutter of 2.6.
First edition in French of Pigafetta's account of Magellan's expedition, translated by Father Carlo Amoretti and published shortly after the discovery of an Italian version of Pigafetta's journal at the Ambrosiana Library in Milan. Until Amoretti's discovery of this manuscript, Pigafetta's journal of the first voyage of circumnavigation had only been published in a much abridged edition based on the Louisa of Savoy manuscript. The illustrations include a folding map of the Philippines, 4 hand-coloured plates, one of these of Cebu and Mactan islands, another of some of the Moluccas Islands, and a folding map of the world. Borba de Moraes II, p.146; Brunet IV, 650; Graesse V, p.289; Sabin 62805.
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