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[PLAUTIUS, Caspar (fl. 1621)]. Nova typis transacta navigatio Novi orbis Indiae Occidentalis... nunc primum e variis scriptoribus in unum collecta... Authore... Honorio Philophono. [Linz], 1621.
2o (302 x 194 mm). Engraved emblematic title with figures of St. Brendan and another Benedictine, at bottom a small map of the East and West Indies, 19 engraved folding plates (numbered 1-18 and the unnumered "Owl" plate), woodcut diagrams in text, type-ornament head-pieces. Plate of Columbus with a map of the world, signed by Wolfgang Kilian (a few minor marginal repairs, library stamp removed from final leaf). 17th-century Austrian vellum, ruled in silver and blind, sides with oval cartouche stamps at center, upper cover with medallion portrait of Saint Benedict emanating divine rays, lower cover with arms of the author as Abbot of Seitenstetten (Siebmacher I, Abtheilung 5, II. Reihe, p. 7, pl. 15), edges gilt (some splitting to spine and light worming to sides). Provenance: Seitenstetten, Benedictine monastery (binding); Vienna, National Library ("Biblioth. Palat. Vindobon. Dupl" stamp on verso of )()(2 and shelf label on verso of title).
FIRST EDITION of this famous relation of the Benedictine missionaries who accompanied Columbus. The dedicatee Caspar Plautius, abbot of Seitenstetten in Lower Austria, is known to be in fact the author. Although laced with miraculous accounts, beginning with the mass celebrated by St. Brendan on the back of a whale (illustrated in plate 2), the narrative is full of authentic details of Caribbean customs, flora and fauna, and agricultural products. A specimen of music is given on pp. 35-36. The author accuses the Protestant de Brys' accounts of being filled with lies, and dwells on the barbaric cruelties of the natives in support of the notion that Satan ruled the native American religions. This copy was may have been bound for presentation. Alden and Landis 621/100; Palau 224762; Sabin 63367.
2o (302 x 194 mm). Engraved emblematic title with figures of St. Brendan and another Benedictine, at bottom a small map of the East and West Indies, 19 engraved folding plates (numbered 1-18 and the unnumered "Owl" plate), woodcut diagrams in text, type-ornament head-pieces. Plate of Columbus with a map of the world, signed by Wolfgang Kilian (a few minor marginal repairs, library stamp removed from final leaf). 17th-century Austrian vellum, ruled in silver and blind, sides with oval cartouche stamps at center, upper cover with medallion portrait of Saint Benedict emanating divine rays, lower cover with arms of the author as Abbot of Seitenstetten (Siebmacher I, Abtheilung 5, II. Reihe, p. 7, pl. 15), edges gilt (some splitting to spine and light worming to sides). Provenance: Seitenstetten, Benedictine monastery (binding); Vienna, National Library ("Biblioth. Palat. Vindobon. Dupl" stamp on verso of )()(2 and shelf label on verso of title).
FIRST EDITION of this famous relation of the Benedictine missionaries who accompanied Columbus. The dedicatee Caspar Plautius, abbot of Seitenstetten in Lower Austria, is known to be in fact the author. Although laced with miraculous accounts, beginning with the mass celebrated by St. Brendan on the back of a whale (illustrated in plate 2), the narrative is full of authentic details of Caribbean customs, flora and fauna, and agricultural products. A specimen of music is given on pp. 35-36. The author accuses the Protestant de Brys' accounts of being filled with lies, and dwells on the barbaric cruelties of the natives in support of the notion that Satan ruled the native American religions. This copy was may have been bound for presentation. Alden and Landis 621/100; Palau 224762; Sabin 63367.