264 - [Americana]. [PIGAFETTA, Antonio. BEHAIM, Martin].

[Americana]. [PIGAFETTA, Antonio. BEHAIM, Martin]. The First Voyage Around the World by Knight Pigafetta, as Part of Magellan’s Fleet, During the Years 1519, 20, 21, and 22. Paris: H. Jansen, Year IX (1800–1801). In-8. (3)-LXIV-(4)-415-(1) pp., including a table of contents and errata at the end, tables within the text, maps, and plates. Fauve half-calf with 19th-century corner piece, speckled edges (censored copy: the probable bookplates have been cut out from the half-title page and title page; spine missing; a few scattered light foxing spots). Rare French first edition. Translated by Carlo Amoretti from a manuscript preserved in Milan. In addition to the travel account, the work contains glossaries of Brazilian, Patagonian, and South Sea island languages, an excerpt from Pigafetta’s Treatise on Navigation, as well as a Note on Chevalier M(artin) Behaim, a famous Portuguese navigator (included in the pagination), and of his globe by Christoph Gottlieb von Murr, in a translation by Hendrik Jansen. With 7 plates (maps or ships) and 2 fold-out maps, engraved in black on copper. The first is based on a drawing by the author; the second depicts a section of the globe made by Martin Behaim in Nuremberg in 1492. The large fold-out map traces the First Voyage Around the World (1519–1522) on a planisphere centered on the Pacific Ocean. Provenance: a copy from the Camille Flammarion Library bearing his ex libris engraved with a motto. Sabin, 62805. Also included: FREIRE DE ANDRADE, Jacinto. Vida de Dom Joaõ de Castro, Fourth Viceroy of India; by Jacinto Freyre de Andrade. New Edition. Lisbon, at the Rollandiana Printing House, 1834. Square 16mo, (5) leaves, 341 pp., frontispiece portrait and 2 plates, one of which is a fold-out. Contemporary Portuguese fawn-colored sheepskin with root edges, smooth spine (upper cap worn down, binding rubbed at the joints and corners). Illustrated with 3 black-and-white copper engravings: a portrait of Dom João de Castro as a frontispiece, a fold-out map of the city of Diu (a port in northwestern India) featuring a portrait of Dom João Mascarenhas, and an engraving of a cross used by the Christians of Saint Thomas of Meliapor. An early edition of the life of the Portuguese nobleman and viceroy of Portuguese India, Dom João de Castro (1500–1548), written by the priest and historian Jacinto Freire de Andrade (1597–1657). ROUTE TO INDIA.