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GUEVARA, Antonio de (ca 1480-1545). Libro de los inventores del arte de marear y de muchas trabajos que se passan enlos galeras...Tocanse en el muy excellentes antiquedades y avisos muy notables para los que navegan en galeras. Anvers: en case de Martin Nucio, n.d. [1546?].
8o (128 x 97 mm). Collation: a-d8 (includes final two blank leaves), printed in black letter, Nucio's circular woodcut device (two flying cranes battling over a fish) on title. (Very minor soiling to a few margins.) 19th-century blind-panelled calf, edges stained red (minor rubbing). Provenance: Harrison D. Horblit (bookplate; his sale part II, Sotheby's London, 11 November 1974, lot 496).
FIRST SEPARATE EDITION. An historical discourse on "the inventors of the nautical arts" by this prolific Spanish author, a priest at the court of Charles V. Guevara's short treatise on maritime matters was first published as part of his Menosprecio de la corte (Valladolid: Juan de Villaquiran, 1539). In addition to a survey of the mariners of classical antiquity, and an allegorical discourse on the dangers of the sea, Guevera provides, in Chapter 8, a consideration of the "barbaric language spoken in the galleys" (bárbaro lenguaje que hablan en los galeras). An English translation of the Libro de los inventores, by Edward Hellows, was published under the title, A Book of the invention of the art of navigation (London, 1578). Belgica Typografica 1353; BM/STC Netherlands p.89; Palau 110393 and 110276 (the 1539 edition); Peeters-Fontainas 572.
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FIRST SEPARATE EDITION. An historical discourse on "the inventors of the nautical arts" by this prolific Spanish author, a priest at the court of Charles V. Guevara's short treatise on maritime matters was first published as part of his Menosprecio de la corte (Valladolid: Juan de Villaquiran, 1539). In addition to a survey of the mariners of classical antiquity, and an allegorical discourse on the dangers of the sea, Guevera provides, in Chapter 8, a consideration of the "barbaric language spoken in the galleys" (bárbaro lenguaje que hablan en los galeras). An English translation of the Libro de los inventores, by Edward Hellows, was published under the title, A Book of the invention of the art of navigation (London, 1578). Belgica Typografica 1353; BM/STC Netherlands p.89; Palau 110393 and 110276 (the 1539 edition); Peeters-Fontainas 572.