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JACOBUS PHILIPPUS DE BERGAMO. Novissime hystoriar[um] omnium repercussiones que supplementum supplementi cronicarum nuncupantur. Incipiendo ab exordio mundi usque in annum salutis nostre MCCCCCII. Venice: Albertus de Lisona, 4 May 1503.
2o (319 x 224 mm). Woodcut coat-of-arms of the dedicatee on title, 4 full-page woodcut illustrations comprised of one large central woodcut surrounded by four border blocks, this border also used for the opening page of text, 89 woodcut city views (47 repeats) of varying size in text, woodcut geographical diagram, decorative woodcut initals, white with flowers and foliage. (Without final blank, minor marginal worming at beginning, some occasional light marginal staining.) 18th-century Italian paper boards (some light chipping and rubbing along joints and edges.) Provenance: some early marginalia (heaviest on B2-B4); Henry Bryant (signature on title); acquired from Goodspeed's Book Shop, 1960.
Fifth edition, but the first edition of this world chronicle to contain an account of Columbus' first voyage, said to be the "earliest considerable recognition of that important discoverer by any general author" (Sabin). The previous editions (1483, 1486, 1490 and 1492) did not contain the chapter "de quattuor permaximis insulis in India extra orbem nuper inventis (ff. 441v-442v) which describes the first and second voyages, based on the Columbus letters. Most of the woodcut illustrations and the woodcut initials are those of the 1486 edition by Bernardinus Benalius and the 1490 edition of Rizus, who added the Tower of Babel woodcut and fine larger city-view of Venice, Rome, Verona and Genoa. The view of Rome may be the earliest printed view of that city (see Essling, I, p. 303). Adams F-748; Alden-Landis 503/2; Essling I, 346; Mortimer Italian 195; JCB I,36; Sabin 25083.
2o (319 x 224 mm). Woodcut coat-of-arms of the dedicatee on title, 4 full-page woodcut illustrations comprised of one large central woodcut surrounded by four border blocks, this border also used for the opening page of text, 89 woodcut city views (47 repeats) of varying size in text, woodcut geographical diagram, decorative woodcut initals, white with flowers and foliage. (Without final blank, minor marginal worming at beginning, some occasional light marginal staining.) 18th-century Italian paper boards (some light chipping and rubbing along joints and edges.) Provenance: some early marginalia (heaviest on B2-B4); Henry Bryant (signature on title); acquired from Goodspeed's Book Shop, 1960.
Fifth edition, but the first edition of this world chronicle to contain an account of Columbus' first voyage, said to be the "earliest considerable recognition of that important discoverer by any general author" (Sabin). The previous editions (1483, 1486, 1490 and 1492) did not contain the chapter "de quattuor permaximis insulis in India extra orbem nuper inventis (ff. 441v-442v) which describes the first and second voyages, based on the Columbus letters. Most of the woodcut illustrations and the woodcut initials are those of the 1486 edition by Bernardinus Benalius and the 1490 edition of Rizus, who added the Tower of Babel woodcut and fine larger city-view of Venice, Rome, Verona and Genoa. The view of Rome may be the earliest printed view of that city (see Essling, I, p. 303). Adams F-748; Alden-Landis 503/2; Essling I, 346; Mortimer Italian 195; JCB I,36; Sabin 25083.