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MEDINA, PEDRO DE. L'Art de Naviguer de Maistre Pierre de Medine, espaignol contenant toutes les reigles, secrets, & enseignments necessaires à la bonne navigation...traduict de Castillan en François...par Nicolas de Nicolai, Geographe du tres-Chrestien Roy Henri II. Lyon: Guillaume Rouille, 1561. Title-page a bit soiled, some light spotting, a few leaves lightly browned. Second edition of the French translation, woodcut printer's device on title-page, folding engraved map of Europe, the Atlantic and the New World, 88 text woodcuts, woodcut head-pieces and initials; the woodcuts and map reprinted from the blocks and plate of the first edition (1554).
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THEVET, ANDRE. Les Singularitez de la France Anctarctique, autrement nommée Amerique, et de plusieurs Terres & Isles decouvertes de nostre temps. Paris: chez les heritiers de Maurice de la Porte, 1558. Scattered minor marginal stains, 1/4 inch marginal tear to fol. 04, small worm track to gutter of quires L-O, just grazing one or two letters. FIRST EDITION, second issue, with imprint date changed from 1557, woodcut arms of the Cardinal de Sens on the title, 41 text woodcuts, of which 11 full-page.
Together 2 vols. in one, 4to, contemporary sheep, covers with a gilt-blocked cross-hatched central medallion, spine in six compartments each with a small gilt pine cone tool, edges stained red, joints restored but cracking, restoration to top of lower cover and head of spine, raised bands exposed in places, covers rubbed, some loss of leather.
Medina's Arte de navigar, first published in Valladolid in 1545, was the first practical treatise on navigation, and the first to give reliable information on the navigation of American waters, as Medina based his information on the first-hand experiences of pilots and masters of the ships using the Indies trade route. It became a popular standard text in the sixteenth-century, and was translated into French and Italian in 1554, and later into English and Dutch. This edition is rare: Alden (561/30) lists only 2 copies (Cambridge and BN); not in Sabin, Church, BM STC French, nor have any copies appeared at auction in the past 60 or more years. Adams M 1028; Baudrier, Bibliographie lyonnaise, IX, 280.
Thevet, a Franciscan friar, had accompanied Villegagnon in the establishment of a French colony in Rio de Janeiro in 1555, which he named "la France antarctique"; he describes "with some exaggerations" (Church) the customs of the natives in this volume, "one of the rarest of Canadiana." Folios 149-164 "are devoted to Canada and Newfoundland, and are probably based on information obtained from Jacques Cartier... [The work is] one of the rarest of Canadiana, only a few copies are known. In this book one finds the first illustration of the buffalo, the first description of tobacco [Thevet introduced tobacco to France], one of the earliest accounts of Newfoundland, and a first account of the fauna and flora in Canada"--Lande 833, illus.; Sabin 95339; Church 109; Alden 561/52. Ambroise Firmin-Didot attributed 17 of the attractive woodcuts to Cousin (Etude sur Jean Cousin, Paris 1872).
Provenance: V. Engelshofen, ink-stamps on title-pages.
[bound with]
THEVET, ANDRE. Les Singularitez de la France Anctarctique, autrement nommée Amerique, et de plusieurs Terres & Isles decouvertes de nostre temps. Paris: chez les heritiers de Maurice de la Porte, 1558. Scattered minor marginal stains, 1/4 inch marginal tear to fol. 04, small worm track to gutter of quires L-O, just grazing one or two letters. FIRST EDITION, second issue, with imprint date changed from 1557, woodcut arms of the Cardinal de Sens on the title, 41 text woodcuts, of which 11 full-page.
Together 2 vols. in one, 4to, contemporary sheep, covers with a gilt-blocked cross-hatched central medallion, spine in six compartments each with a small gilt pine cone tool, edges stained red, joints restored but cracking, restoration to top of lower cover and head of spine, raised bands exposed in places, covers rubbed, some loss of leather.
Medina's Arte de navigar, first published in Valladolid in 1545, was the first practical treatise on navigation, and the first to give reliable information on the navigation of American waters, as Medina based his information on the first-hand experiences of pilots and masters of the ships using the Indies trade route. It became a popular standard text in the sixteenth-century, and was translated into French and Italian in 1554, and later into English and Dutch. This edition is rare: Alden (561/30) lists only 2 copies (Cambridge and BN); not in Sabin, Church, BM STC French, nor have any copies appeared at auction in the past 60 or more years. Adams M 1028; Baudrier, Bibliographie lyonnaise, IX, 280.
Thevet, a Franciscan friar, had accompanied Villegagnon in the establishment of a French colony in Rio de Janeiro in 1555, which he named "la France antarctique"; he describes "with some exaggerations" (Church) the customs of the natives in this volume, "one of the rarest of Canadiana." Folios 149-164 "are devoted to Canada and Newfoundland, and are probably based on information obtained from Jacques Cartier... [The work is] one of the rarest of Canadiana, only a few copies are known. In this book one finds the first illustration of the buffalo, the first description of tobacco [Thevet introduced tobacco to France], one of the earliest accounts of Newfoundland, and a first account of the fauna and flora in Canada"--Lande 833, illus.; Sabin 95339; Church 109; Alden 561/52. Ambroise Firmin-Didot attributed 17 of the attractive woodcuts to Cousin (Etude sur Jean Cousin, Paris 1872).
Provenance: V. Engelshofen, ink-stamps on title-pages.