. Americana ... including scarce and precious books, manuscripts and engravings from the collections of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico and Charles Et. Brasseur de Bourbourg, the library of Edward Salomon, late governor of the state of Wisconsin, and other important collections . ore than 20 was given him by the Emperor to demand from the different governorsof Spanish America such documents as he might need. His work is the sourcefrom which most literary writers have drawn their accounts of the early occurrencesin the New World. Very rare first edition with the second part whichis


. Americana ... including scarce and precious books, manuscripts and engravings from the collections of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico and Charles Et. Brasseur de Bourbourg, the library of Edward Salomon, late governor of the state of Wisconsin, and other important collections . ore than 20 was given him by the Emperor to demand from the different governorsof Spanish America such documents as he might need. His work is the sourcefrom which most literary writers have drawn their accounts of the early occurrencesin the New World. Very rare first edition with the second part whichis usually wanting, as it was published 22 years later; Oviedo died in1557, while this second part was in the press and only the Libro xx has beenpublished. The manuscript of the rest of the work was scattered, but finallybrought together and printed for the first time in 1851 by the Spanish Government. CoUation: Part I: 4 unn. U., 193 ntmib. U., 1 bl. 1. Title printed in red inwoodcut ornament with the monogr. IC (Juam Cromberger); large initialletters and 28 woodcuts in the text illustrating the manners and im-plements of the natives and representing animals and plants. Arms of Oviedo Joseph Baer & Co., Frankfurt a. M. I. Amsricana votustissima usque ad a. 1600. 15. Woodcut of no. 6 and 7. on the last leaf. The carta missiva at the end bears the authors autograph ^^^ PartII: 64 numb, leaves. Imperial arms on title, 3 w o o d c u t s i n th etext. Quite perfectj some wormholes and a few leaves waterstamed,othe^e very^^c ean jopy. ^^^^ mention ol tobacco, with a smaU woodcut, whichIs the oldest representation o! a tobacco pipe. See our reproductions on page 43 and p. 47. Lagerkatalog 600. 18 Americana. 40 Ptolemaei, CI., Geograpliicae enarrationis libri octo. Ex Bilibaldi Pirck-heimeri tralatione, sed ad Graeca & prisca exemplaria a MichaeleVillanouano recogniti. Adiecta ab eodem Scholia. Quinquagintaillae quoque cvm ueterum turn recentium tabulae adnectuntur, uarijqueincolentium


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