Ramusio, Giovanni Battista (1485-1557).

3 volumes, folio (319 x 222mm.), ff. [4], 34, 394; 6, 9-18, [10], 256, 90; [6], 36, 430, illustration: woodcut device on title-pages and at the end of each volume, 3 folding engraved maps, 7 folding woodcut maps and plans, woodcut diagrams and illustrations in text (including one full-page map and one full-page plan), woodcut initials, binding: eighteenth-century calf gilt, spines gilt in compartments, joints rubbed

Sabin 67734, 67739 & 67742

Fifth edition of volume 1, fourth edition of volume 2 and third edition of volume 3. Ramusio's collection of voyages is one of the earliest and most complete, containing several relations not found elsewhere. The first volume relates almost entirely to Africa, the second to Asia and the third to America; the present edition of volume 3 contains some new material.