Giovio´s description of Moscow, England and others
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RUSSIA. GIOVIO, PAOLO. Elogia doctorum virorum ab auorum memoria publicatis ingenij monumentis illustrium... Praeter nova Ioan. Latomi Bergani in singulos epigrammata... Basileae no year (1561?).
8:o (158x100 mm.). (16), 1-310, (10) pp. Some marginal annotations and underlinings to text. Title stamped in blue verso: "Sammlung Stiefel". Some foxing and staining, most marginal. BOUND WITH:
GIOVIO, PAOLO. Descriptiones, quotquot extant, regionum at(que) locorum. Qvibus (ut eius omni a hoc postreme volumine complecteremur) de Piscibus Romanis libellum verè aureum adiunximus. Basilae 1561.
8:o (158x100 mm.). (16), 1-239, (1) pp. BOUND WITH:
GIOVIO, PAOLO. Moschouia, in qua situs regionis antiquis incognitus, religio gentis, mores, &c. fidelissimè referuntur. Caeterum ostenditur error Strabonis, Ptolemaei, aliorumq(ue), geographia scriptorum, ubi de Riphaeis montibus meminêre, quos hac aetate nunquam esse, planè compertum est. Basileae (Henricum Petri et Petrum Pernam) 1561.
8:o (158x100 mm.). ((2), 3-180, (12, last 2 blank) pp. From pp. 159 inkstain in lower margin.
Contemporary limp vellum, worn and soiled, lacks ties, blank spine.
The first work VD16 G 2059. The second work (together with George Lily) is a description of England, Scotland, Ireland, the hebrides, and the Orkney Islands, with a long English historical chronicle. The third work, as published here (although separately collated) is the author's "Moschovia, in qua Situs Regionis Antiquis Incognitus...", a description of Moscow, but it also includes his description of Lake Como (the place of the author's birth), and a texton Italian fish. In effect, this is a first collected editionof 4 previously separately published works: on Roman fish in 1524, the description of Britain in 1548, the text on Moscow in 1557 (with the author Sigmund Herberstein), and his description of Lake Como in 1559. The 2 parts together VD16 G2 058.
From the library of Swedish antiquarian bookdealer Björn Löwendahl (1941-2013).
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Auktionsnummer:
6190
Datum:
2015-06-16