15 - [LA SALE (Antoine de)].

[LA SALE (Antoine de)]. The Salad, newly // printed // in Paris. Which mentions // all the countries of the world, and the land of // the beautiful Sibyl. With a map showing the way to the mountain // of the said Sibyl. And also a map of the sea and // the land, with several fine admonitions. This is sold in Paris by Philippe le Noir, a sworn bookbinder at the University of Paris […] And was completed on the 13th day of March, 1500. xxvii [1527, or 1528 n. st.]. Small in-4° (180 x 254 mm), light calfskin, decorated ribbed spine (early 18th-century binding). Second edition, published six years after the first. 62 ff., signed a-i6 & k8. Text in two columns of 44 lines. A title page in red and black ink adorned with a woodcut frame; four large woodcuts outside the text, including a folded planisphere and a genealogical table of the kings of Aragon; twenty woodcuts within the text, including one full-page woodcut; numerous initial letters; large printer’s mark at the end of the volume. A VERY CURIOUS WORK, WRITTEN AROUND 1440, WHICH DESCRIBES GREENLAND, THE SOUTH POLE, ITS “FROZEN SEA,” AND ITS “LONG PERIODS OF COLD,” “certain hints foreshadowing the semi-civilization of the American lands” (Harrisse). A few minor imperfections in the binding have been restored; the top joint is cracked; the title page has been reinforced; there is a small tear with no loss of text at the top margin of f. a6. Bechtel, L56; Harrisse, 140; Sabin, 39110; Fairfax Murray, 303, 371–375; Brun, 233; Brunet III, 854–855.