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BENZONI, Girolamo. Der Newenn Weldt und Indianischen Königsreichs ... History. Translated by Nicolaus Höniger. Basel: Sebastian Henricpetri, 1579. Title in red and black, woodcut printer's device on verso of final leaf. Sabin 4797; BL STC German p. 76. [Bound with:] Paolo GIOVIO, Bishop of Nocera, and Siegmund von HERBERSTEIN. Die Moscovitische Chronica. Translated from Latin into German by Heinrich Pantaleon. Frankfurt: Johann Schmidt for Sigmund Feyerabend, 1576. Title in red and black with woodcut illustration of the Grand Duke of Moscow, dedication with woodcut dedicatee's arms, 15 woodcut illustrations, woodcut printer's device on final leaf. Not in Adams or BL STC German. 2 works in one volume, 2° (315 x 195mm). Contemporary panelled pigskin, roll-tooled in blind (cleaned, spine skilfully repaired, one or two small wormholes). -- [J. HUTTICH.] Die New Welt, der landschafften unnd Insulen so ... iungst ... von den Portugalesern und Hispaniern ... herfunden. [Edited and translated by Michael Herr from the Novus Orbis of S. Grynaeus and the De Orbe Novo of Peter Martyr.] Strassburg: Georg Ulricher, Andlanus, 1534. 2° (275 x 187mm). Dedication with woodcut dedicatee's arms, decorative woodcut initials. (Lacking final leaf, lower section of title repaired on verso, some staining, mainly marginal.) Later half sheep over marbled paper boards, spine gilt in six compartments (cracks to joints, rubbed and recornered). Provenance: Fürst M. Lieven (stamps). First edition in German. BL STC German p. 713; Sabin 34106 ("Less known and much rarer than the original [Latin edition of 1532]."). (2)