Magnus, Historia delle genti... settentrionali, Venice, 1565, later half vellum

Olaus Magnus

Historia delle genti et della natura delle cose settentrionali descritta in XXII libri. Nuovamente tradotta in lingua Toscana. Venice: (Domenico Nicolini for the heirs of Lucantonio) Giunta, 1565

folio (320 x 215mm.), woodcut Giunta device on title-page and final verso, woodcut initials, woodcut illustrations, engraved map of Scandinavia opposite p.1, modern vellum-backed marbled boards, occasional light foxing, small paper flaw in R2, binding slightly rubbed

Second Italian translation of Magnus's work on Scandinavia, following the 1561 Venice edition in the translation of Remigio Fiorentino, which was however unillustrated. The engaging illustrations here are taken from the 1555 Rome edition in Latin, but in this edition the map is engraved rather than woodcut.

LITERATURE:

Edit16 27290; cf. Mortimer, Harvard Italian 270 (first edition of 1555)