Dedication to Pius IV in Latin; all other text in Italian., Engraved title page; architectural border with portrait of Vignola., First issued in 1562; second issue 1563? with the thirty-two plates and without date or place of publication., Imperfect: ownership inscription rubbed from title page. No. 1 of 3 titles bound together., and Three states of the first edition exist. None have publication dates or place; The first is the dedication copy in the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale in Florence; the second state has a five line printed addition on the preface leaf, and additional printed annotations on plates 7, 8, 12, 14, 18, 24 and 25; the third state has an additional 5 plates. Cf. Walcher Casotti.
Subject (Topic):
Architecture--Orders--Early works to 1800 and Decoration and ornament, Architectural--Early works to 1800
Vita di Piero Soderini, gonfaloniere perpetvo della repvbblica Fiorentina
Description:
Armorial binding of Pope Clement XII. Stamp of Giovanni Lercari., Imprint from colophon., Signatures: 2 l. unsigned, *-***⁴ A-2Q⁴ 2R²(-2R2, blank?)., and Title (engraved) and text within engraved border.
Publisher:
Nella stamperia del Seminario con licenza de svperiori,
Subject (Geographic):
Florence (Italy)--History--1421-1737
Subject (Name):
Lercari, Giovanni,--1722-1802--Stamp and Soderini, Piero,--1452-1522
Benzoni, Girolamo, b. 1519. Historia del Mondo Nuovo. Book 3. Latin. 1596 Bry, Theodor de, 1528-1598
Published / Created:
1596
Call Number:
E159 +B79 6-9
Image Count:
2
Description:
First ed. Cf. Church. Cat. of books relating to ... America, 158., Novae Novi Orbis historiae, liber 3 (by G. Benzoni, tr. and annotated by Urbain Chauveton)--Brevis insvlarvm quae Canariae appellantvr ... descriptio.--De Gallorvm expeditione in Floridam ... 1565 (including the petition on behalf of the families of those massacred there by the Spanish in 1565, repeated from America. pt. 2), The t.p., with a new engr. title on a slip mounted over the original text, is repeated preceding the plates., and With this is bound the editor's [America. pts. 7-9. Latin] Francoforti, 1599-1602. Imperfect: signature G6 (2nd count) blank, wanting.
Subject (Geographic):
America--Early accounts to 1600, America--History--To 1600, Canary Islands--Description and travel--Early works to 1800, Florida--History--Huguenot colony, 1562-1565, and Peru--History--Conquest, 1522-1548