Pigafetta, Filippo.

Estimate

1,500 - 2,500 GBP

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Description

A reporte of the kingdome of Congo, a region of Africa. And of the countries that border rounde about the same. London: John Wolfe, 1597

4to (191 x 132mm.), [18], 74, 85-217, [3]pp. (numerous errors in pagination), illustration: 3 engraved folding maps by William Rogers (the map of the Congo in its first state), 5 woodcut folding plates (numbered 3, 5, 6, 7 and 4), 5 woodcut illustrations (numbered 1, 2, 8, 1 and 7, on separate leaves but integral to collation), woodcut head- and tailpieces and initials, binding: contemporary calf, gilt double-fillet border, spine in compartments gilt, lacking [fleuron]1 (title-page), **2, A1 (blank cancellans for [fleuron]4) and K4 (probably blank as catchwords match), A2 (additional title-page) bound before [fleuron]2, **1 loose, worming to preliminary leaves, small chips and tears with tiny loss to lower margins of folding maps, staining, spotting, binding worn

Provenance

Thomas ?, shaved signature on title-page

Literature

STC 16805; Mendelssohn (1979) III, 163

Catalogue Note

first edition in english, translated from the Italian by Abraham Hartwell.