Il viaggio all´Indie Orientali 1678
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Beskrivning
INDIA. VINCENZO MARIA DI S. CATERINA DA SIENA (= MURCHIO, ANTONIO). Il viaggio all'Indie Orientali... Con le osservationi, e successi nel medesimo, i costumi, e kiti di varie nationi, & reconditissimi arcani de'Gentili, cavati con somma diligenza da'loro scritti, con la descrittione degli'animali quadrupedi, serpenti, uccelli, piante di quel mendo nuovo, con le loro virtu singolari. Diviso in cinque libri... Venetia (appresso Giacomo Zattoni) 1678.
Small 4:o (200x155 mm.). (24), 1-516, (20, last blank) pp. Title with woodcut printer's device, woodcut ornaments and initials.
Contemporary limp vellum, worn, some spotting, spine with title lettered in ink, very small damage at head.
This is the second edition, the first were published in 1672. Compare Atabey: The Ottoman World (London 1998), 1297 (third edition 1683). Not in Blackmer or Weber.
An account of the Carmelite's voyage to India via Turkey and the Middle East. The most important purpose of the expedition was to win backto Rome the Christans of St. Thomas, of which the great majority had broken away during the great schism of 1653. The work contains a particularly extensive account of India, its flora an fauna, politics and governement, religion and ceremonials etc. Described is also Goa, Persia, Arabia, Turkey, Babylon, and Syria.
Compare Atabey: The Ottoman II (London 1998), 1297 (3rd edition 1683). Not in Blackmer or Weber.
From the library of Swedish antiquarian bookdealer Björn Löwendahl (1941-2013).
Auktionsnummer:
6105
Datum:
2015-12-15