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1077 - Letters by Princes, which are either written by princes, addressed to princes, or discuss princes [...]. In this second edition, everything has been reorganized and improved [...]. Venice: G. Ziletti [- by Fr. Ziletti] 1564–1581, 3 vols., 4to: [8]–230, [6]–257–[1], [8]–284 ff. (foxing and soiling, marginal wormhole or track in vols. I–II, some quires with slight browning—especially in vol. II—marginal dampstaining in vols. I and III, slight waterstains in vol. II, vol. II has a shortened trim on the running titles, occasional ink stains). 17th-century vellum, ink-titled flat spines, blue edges. Second edition of this collection of letters gathered since 1562 and edited by Girolamo Ruscelli (1518–1566), mathematician and astronomer, translator of Ptolemy, and founder in 1541 of the Accademia dello Sdegno. Letters from and to: Alfonso d’Avalos d’Aquino, Marquis of Vasto, to Paolo Giovio, Aradin Bassà (Kair ad-Din Barbarossa) to Giovanni Matteo Bembo, Bernardo Bibiena to Giuliano de’ Medici, Charles V to Clement VII, Francis I to Clement VII, Piero Machiavelli to Cosimo I de’ Medici, etc. Among these, the letter dated January 20, 1543, from Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés (1478–1557)—known as Oviedo, a Spanish historian and soldier who participated in the colonization of the West Indies—to the scholar and Cardinal Pietro Bembo (1470–1547) regarding the recent discoveries made by Francisco de Orellana—the first European to travel down the Amazon River to its mouth during an eight-month journey in 1541 as part of an expedition launched by Pizarro with the aim of finding the mythical El Dorado (vol. I, pp. 149–152). It “provides an interesting contemporary account of the progress and successes of the Spaniards in Peru” (Sabin). With handwritten marginalia in Italian in vol. III. Woodcut printer’s mark on the title pages and at the end of vols. I and II. Ref. EDIT16 41039, 78484 & 16617. - Sabin 40563. - STC Italian 376 (vol. II; see also the other two volumes). - Adams L-563 (vol. II; see also vol. I [1573 ed.] and vol. III [1577 ed.]). - See Gamba 1470 (1581 ed., “Raccolta pregevolissima”).
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Letters by Princes, which are either written by princes, addressed to princes, or discuss princes [...]. In this second edition, everything has been reorganized and improved [...]. Venice: G. Ziletti [- by Fr. Ziletti] 1564–1581, 3 vols., 4to: [8]–230, [6]–257–[1], [8]–284 ff. (foxing and soiling, marginal wormhole or track in vols. I–II, some quires with slight browning—especially in vol. II—marginal dampstaining in vols. I and III, slight waterstains in vol. II, vol. II has a shortened trim on the running titles, occasional ink stains). 17th-century vellum, ink-titled flat spines, blue edges. Second edition of this collection of letters gathered since 1562 and edited by Girolamo Ruscelli (1518–1566), mathematician and astronomer, translator of Ptolemy, and founder in 1541 of the Accademia dello Sdegno. Letters from and to: Alfonso d’Avalos d’Aquino, Marquis of Vasto, to Paolo Giovio, Aradin Bassà (Kair ad-Din Barbarossa) to Giovanni Matteo Bembo, Bernardo Bibiena to Giuliano de’ Medici, Charles V to Clement VII, Francis I to Clement VII, Piero Machiavelli to Cosimo I de’ Medici, etc. Among these, the letter dated January 20, 1543, from Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés (1478–1557)—known as Oviedo, a Spanish historian and soldier who participated in the colonization of the West Indies—to the scholar and Cardinal Pietro Bembo (1470–1547) regarding the recent discoveries made by Francisco de Orellana—the first European to travel down the Amazon River to its mouth during an eight-month journey in 1541 as part of an expedition launched by Pizarro with the aim of finding the mythical El Dorado (vol. I, pp. 149–152). It “provides an interesting contemporary account of the progress and successes of the Spaniards in Peru” (Sabin). With handwritten marginalia in Italian in vol. III. Woodcut printer’s mark on the title pages and at the end of vols. I and II. Ref. EDIT16 41039, 78484 & 16617. - Sabin 40563. - STC Italian 376 (vol. II; see also the other two volumes). - Adams L-563 (vol. II; see also vol. I [1573 ed.] and vol. III [1577 ed.]). - See Gamba 1470 (1581 ed., “Raccolta pregevolissima”).
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