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Medina,P.De.

Arte del navigare. Di novo ampliata, & corretta. Venice, T. Baglioni, 1609. 20 x 15.5 cm. With woodcut printer's mark on the title, 1 folio-sized woodcut map and approx. 80 woodcuts in text. - 8 nn. Pl. (last white), 137 num. pp. Contemporary flexible vellum binding. Alden/Landis 609/77. - Palau 159,680. - Cf. Sabin 47344. Church 98. Borba de Moraes 548. Mortimer 300. Scheepvaart Mus. 662 - Standard work for navigation and seafaring. 2nd Italian edition, richly illustrated with beautiful woodcuts. With a sheet-sized map of the Atlantic and America. Well preserved copy. - "The author, who was with Cortés, may be said to have been the founder of the literature of seamanship. He was entrusted by the King with the examination of pilots and sailing-masters for the West Indies, taught navigation, and was held in high esteem as a cosmographer. This book was most popular with the successors of Columbus". (Church I, 219) The woodcuts are slightly reduced reproductions of the Spanish original of 1545. The beautiful sheet-sized map (cf. Burden 14) shows the Atlantic with Western Europe, West Africa, the east coast of North America, the whole of Central America and the northern part of South America. "[The map] may be taken as embodying the results of Spanish discovery in 1540" (Church). Among the smaller woodcuts a round world map surrounded by winch sails (Shirley 84), furthermore various types of ships and numerous diagrams from the fields of astronomy and navigation. - Vord. Front endpaper somewhat foxed, otherwise a fine and hardly stained copy in contemporary binding. Binding. - Title with old hs. Ownership note. - Classical work of navigation literature, first published at Valladolid in 1545 and rare in all editions. Second Italian edition, richly illustrated with fine woodcuts, including 1 fullpage map of America and Atlantic ocean, 1 small world map and numerous astronomic and nautical diagrams. Contemp. limp vellum. - Front endpaper somewhat foxed, else fine and nearly stainless unsophisticated copy.

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