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THEVET, André (1502-1590). Historia dell'India America detta altramente Francia Antartica. Translated from French into Italian by Giuseppe Dondi dall'Orologio. Venice: Gabriel Giolito de'Ferrari, 1561.
Small 8o (152 x 99 mm). Italic type. Printer's woodcut devices on title-page and on recto of penultimate leaf. Woodcut ornaments and initials. (Lower margin of title-page restored slightly affecting date.) 19th-century blue morocco gilt, edges gilt, by Niedrée. Provenance: Casa ?Pere (contemporary inscription on title-page, washed).
First edition in Italian of Les Singularitez de la France Antarctique, first published at Paris in 1557. Thevet, a Franciscan, accompanied Villegagnon on a French expedition in 1555 to establish a French colony on the coast of Brazil. His important narrative of that unsuccessful venture contains one of the earliest desciptions of tobacco and its use by the Indians, as well as descriptions of Peru, Cuba, and Canada, the latter account derived from Jacques Cartier. Giolito reissued this translation in 1584. An English translation appeared in 1568. Alden & Landis 561/52; Arents 9; Borba de Moraes, pp. 304-5; Church 112; Field 1547; JCB (3) I:215; Sabin 95336.
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First edition in Italian of Les Singularitez de la France Antarctique, first published at Paris in 1557. Thevet, a Franciscan, accompanied Villegagnon on a French expedition in 1555 to establish a French colony on the coast of Brazil. His important narrative of that unsuccessful venture contains one of the earliest desciptions of tobacco and its use by the Indians, as well as descriptions of Peru, Cuba, and Canada, the latter account derived from Jacques Cartier. Giolito reissued this translation in 1584. An English translation appeared in 1568. Alden & Landis 561/52; Arents 9; Borba de Moraes, pp. 304-5; Church 112; Field 1547; JCB (3) I:215; Sabin 95336.
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