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ROBERTUS MONACHUS, Abbot of Saint-Rmy, Rheims. Bellum Christianorum principum... contra Saracenos... Christophorus Colom de prima insularum, in mari Indico sitarum, lustratione, quae sub rege Ferdinando Hispaniarum facta est. Basel: Heinrich Petri, August 1533.
2o (298 x 202 mm). Printer's woodcut device on verso of last leaf, 9-line and smaller woodcut initials. Last line of text on M1v deleted with a pasted-down slip. Clear impression of bearer type (large capitals) on title-leaf. (Title-leaf torn slightly along gutter, several small wormholes through upper blank fore-margins, occasional very minor foxing.) Contemporary limp vellum, manuscript title on spine (lacking pair of fore-edge ties, small cracks to spine); folding chemise and slipcase.
FIRST EDITION. The fourth of the seven texts in this collection is a reprint of Columbus's letter to Rafael Sanchez, in Cosco's Latin translation (pp. 116-121). "This is the edition from which most early wroters quote" (Church).
Adams R-612; Alden and Lanids 533/6; Church I:66; Harrisse 175; Sabin 72023.
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FIRST EDITION. The fourth of the seven texts in this collection is a reprint of Columbus's letter to Rafael Sanchez, in Cosco's Latin translation (pp. 116-121). "This is the edition from which most early wroters quote" (Church).
Adams R-612; Alden and Lanids 533/6; Church I:66; Harrisse 175; Sabin 72023.