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COLUMBUS, Fernando (1488-1539). Histoire del S.D. Fernando Colombo, nelle quali s'ha particolare, e vera relatione della vita, e deoe fatti dell 'Ammiraglio D. Christoforo Colombo, suo padre et dello scoprimento, ch'egli fece dell' Indie Occidentali, dette Mondo Nuovo, hora posseduto dal Sereniss. Re Catolico. Venice: Francesco de'Franceschi Sanese, 1571.
8° (145 x 96 mm). (First 25 leaves with lower fore-corners renewed, some letters supplied in ink, N-Q with worktracks repaired, affecting some letters, Dd8 and Ff4 with repairs in upper margin with several letters of headline supplied in ink, last seven leaves with margins renewed affecting some letters.) Later vellum over boards. Provenance: J. Martini (1949 gift inscription on pastedown).
FIRST EDITION. “The author was the illegitimate son of Christopher Columbus. He accompanied his father on his fourth and last voyage (1502-1504) and seems to have been with him when he died; therefore being a witness to some of the events which he relates. He returned to Spain and collected the library of printed books and manuscripts, now known as the Biblioteca Colombina, at Seville, where he spent the remainder of his life. He wrote several memoirs besides this life of his father, the original text of which was lost. This book, despite the efforts of some writers to prove it a fogery, still remains the only source of information upon many events in the life of Columbus” (Church). Alden & Landis 571/8 (“Whether or not this is, as represented, from Columbus's son's pen has, in the absence of the Spanish original, long been a matter of dispute”); Arents Tobacco 14; Church 114; JCB (1919) I, p. 244; Sabin 14674; Steit II:874.
8° (145 x 96 mm). (First 25 leaves with lower fore-corners renewed, some letters supplied in ink, N-Q with worktracks repaired, affecting some letters, Dd8 and Ff4 with repairs in upper margin with several letters of headline supplied in ink, last seven leaves with margins renewed affecting some letters.) Later vellum over boards. Provenance: J. Martini (1949 gift inscription on pastedown).
FIRST EDITION. “The author was the illegitimate son of Christopher Columbus. He accompanied his father on his fourth and last voyage (1502-1504) and seems to have been with him when he died; therefore being a witness to some of the events which he relates. He returned to Spain and collected the library of printed books and manuscripts, now known as the Biblioteca Colombina, at Seville, where he spent the remainder of his life. He wrote several memoirs besides this life of his father, the original text of which was lost. This book, despite the efforts of some writers to prove it a fogery, still remains the only source of information upon many events in the life of Columbus” (Church). Alden & Landis 571/8 (“Whether or not this is, as represented, from Columbus's son's pen has, in the absence of the Spanish original, long been a matter of dispute”); Arents Tobacco 14; Church 114; JCB (1919) I, p. 244; Sabin 14674; Steit II:874.