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Lot 208
  • 208

Maffei, Giovanni Pietro.

Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 GBP
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Description

  • Historiarum indicarum libri XVI. Cologne: Officina Birckmannica, for Arnold Mylius, 1593
Second Cologne edition. small folio,300 x 195mm., large woodcut device on title, engraved map (often missing), contemporary vellum, some light soiling or discoloration, lower corners of first few pages chipped, binding slightly worn, ties missing

Provenance

Ezra Pringle, seventeenth-century note of purchase in Edinburgh for £2 2s; Laird of Altyrs, modern bookplate

Literature

Alden 589.39; Sabin 43770; Shirley 166

Catalogue Note

This is the only Cologne edition of Maffei's account of the Portuguese discoveries in the East Indies to contain a World map, a skilful copy of that in the Ortelius Theatrum of 1570. The map is missing from most copies which appear for sale.