Regnum Congo hoc est vera descriptio regni Africani : quod tam ab incolis quam Lusitanis Congus
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
Books, Journals & Pamphlets
Subject (Geographic):
Africa --Description and travel --Early works to 1800, Africa --Discovery and exploration --Early works to 1800, Kongo Kingdom --Description and travel --Early works to 1800, and Kongo Kingdom --Discovery and exploration --Early works to 1800
[Utopia], De optimo reip. statu, deque noua insula Vtopia, and De optimo reipublicae statu, deque nova insula Utopia
Description:
Colophon: [Printer’s mark] Basileae apvd Io. Frobenlvm mense decembri an M.D.XVIII., Each of the three parts has its own colophon, that of first part, the Utopia, being dated November, 1518. The "Epigrammata" of More and of Erasmus have also special title pages., Initials. Some title page borders and the illustrations on p. [12] and p. [25] are from designs by Ambrosius Holbein., and Irregularities in paging: 8 pages between p. 162 and p. 167 counted in numbering as 4 numbered leaves; several typographical errors.
Achondroplasia, Bones --Diseases --Early works to 1800, Medicine --Research --Great Britain, Rickets --Early works to 1800, Scurvy --Early works to 1800, and Scurvy, Infantile
Imperfect: plates 4, 27 and 37 wanting; 2 maps (Nova tabula insularum Iavae, Sumatrae, Borneonis ... and Ailhae cidade de Goa ...) wanting. The other map and plate issued with this part, and 4 maps issued with part 3, are bound preceeding this part in the following order: [1] A cidade de Angra ... (40 x 55 cm. on sheet 41 x 57 cm, folded to 30 x 15); [2] Descriptio Hydrograhica accomodata ad Battavorum navagatione in Javam isulam Indiae Orientalis... (34 x 65 cm, on sheet 36 x 65 cm, folded to 29 x 18 cm); [3] Insula D. Helenae ... (22 x 28 cm, on sheet 30 x 31); [4] Munken so in den Orientalischen Indien ... (14 x 18 cm, on sheet 19 x 30 cm) bound with top of sheet at gutter; [5] Vera effigies et delineatio Insulae Ascenstio ... (15 x 22 cm, on sheet 19 x 30 cm) bound with top of sheet at gutter; [6] Insulae et arcis Mocambique ...(21 x 27 cm, on sheet 31 x 30 cm). Some text has been censored in black ink. No. 2 of 3 titles bound together.
Publisher:
Ex officina Wolfgangi Richteri,
Subject (Geographic):
Indonesia--Description and travel--Early works to 1800.
Subject (Name):
Linschoten, Jan Huygen van, 1563-1611. Navigatio in Orientem.