Huttich, Johann, and Grynaeus, Simon

FIRST EDITION, folio (293 x 202mm.), printer’s device on title and at end, notes and underlinings in a sixteenth-century hand, lacking map (as often) and α2, title holed by ink deletions on verso, worming, mostly marginal, binding rubbed

Bibliotecae Petri Buoninsegni, book label dated 1814 at foot of title

Adams G-1334; Borba de Moraes, pp.376-377; Sabin 34100; Western Travellers in China 4

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This fine collection of voyages was compiled by Johann Huttich (1480?-1544), with a preface by Simon Grynaeus (1493-1541). The work contains the first three voyages of Columbus, Vincente Yanes Pinzon's voyage, the four voyages of Vespucci, and an extract of the Fourth Decade of Peter Martyr, as well as the voyages of Cadamosto, Nino, and Cabral. Other accounts deal with the travels of Marco Polo and voyages to Africa, Russia, Palestine, the Moluccas and elsewhere.