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Author: Ramusio, Giovanni Battista
Title: Delle Navigationi et Viaggi
Place Published: Venice
Publisher:Stamperia de Giunti
Date Published: 1563; 1574; ; 1556
Description:

3 volumes.Text in Italian. Each with printer's woodcut device on title page and 2 with additional device on Registro leaf. ;(Folio) mixed set in full vellum of different periods with morocco lettering pieces and raised bands. Vol. I is third edition; Vol. II is second edition; ; Vol. III is First Edition.

Volume I. [4], 394 leaves (see online catalog for enumeration of usual foliation errors). a? b-d? e¹?, ²a-u? x¹? y-3b? 3c? (blank 3c¹? not present). Foliated initials, printed marginalia, in-text woodcut illustrations, diagrams, architectural plans and maps. With three double-page copperplate maps entitled "Prima Tavola," "Seconda Tavola," and "Terza Tavola," Leaf size: 30x20.3 cm (11¾x8"), modern full vellum. Third edition.

Volume II. 5, [1], 9-30, 248 leaves. 1-2?, 3?, 4-5?, A-2H?. Foliated initials, printed marginalia, in-text woodcut illustrations. Leaf size: 30.5x20.4 cm (12x8"), earlier full vellum, all edges with faded marbling. Second edition. ;

Volume III. 6, 34, 453 leaves. ;1-6?, 7?, a-2y?, 2z¹?, 3a-e?, 3f?, 3g-h?, 3i-?, 3k? ;(blank 3k? not present) Foliated and historiated initials, printed marginalia. 6 folding copper-plate maps with in-text woodcut illustrations and maps. ;Leaf size: 30.5x20.4 cm (12x8"), earlier full vellum, all edges with faded marbling. First Edition.

Giovanni Battista Ramusio of Venice's famed collection of early travel narratives was a genre-defining book. For an electrified audience eager for stories of distant and exotic lands, Battista presented the travels of Marco Polo, Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca, Ferdinand Magellan, Niccolò de' Conti and many others with accompanying maps and woodcut illustrations of strange flora and fauna. The folding maps in Volume III are as follows: Il Cuscho Citta Principale della Provincia del Peru; La Nuova Francia; Brasil; Parte de La Frica; Sumatra; Unversale Della Parte del Mondo Nuovamente Ritrovata; La Terra de Hochelaga Nella Nova Francia. Of the third edition of Volume I, Sabin states "The third edition of the first volume. It contains a new preface by "Tommaso Giunti alli lettori," giving an account of Ramusio, but in other respects appears to be an exact reprint of the edition of 1554, without additions."--Sabin v. 16, no. 67732.

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Errors in foliation of Vol I.: leaf 126 misprinted as 120, 127 as 121, 129 as 126, 174 as 173, 180 as 280, 270 as 27, 307 as 308; 162 repeated.

Staining and soiling to vellum; each volume with a few marginal worm trails; Volume I with residue from plate removal on rear pastedown; Vol. II with toning, staining and dampstaining to several leaves with some rippling, minor chips to 3 leaves at fore-edge without loss to text; Vol. III with a few stains, internal tape repair to binding, minor toning, a few repairs from reverse to folding maps; very good overall.