Pigafetta, Francisco Antonio (1485-1534), And Maximilianus Transylvanus (C.1490-C.1538)

Il Viaggio Fatto Da Gli Spagnivoli Atorno a'L Mondo

      . Venice: 1536. [52] leaves. (Lower outer corner of titlepage and following 31 leaves expertly repaired, not affecting the text). European Americana 536/14; British Museum (Italian); 428; Borba de Moraes, pp.547-48; Church 74; Harrisse (BAV) 215; Howgego M17; JCB (3); I: 120; Palau 158777, 225741; Sabin 47042. [bound with: ] Peter MARTYR (1499-1562); Gonzalo Fernández de OVIEDO y Valdés (1478-1557) and Giovanni Battista RAMUSIO (1485-1557). Summario de la generale historia de l'Indie Occidentali. Venice: 1534. 3 parts. 1 folding woodcut map of Hispaniola, 4 woodcut illustrations (3 full-page, 1 half page). Arents 3; Borba de Moraes, pp.531-32; Church 69; European Americana 534/28; Harrisse 190; JCB (3)I: 114; Sabin 1565; Streeter Sale 13. 2 works in one volume, small quarto (7 7/8 x 5 1/2 inches). Early 19th-century vellum, spine with red and green morocco lettering-pieces, yapp foredge, marbled endpapers A remarkable volume, bringing together the most important early accounts of navigation and New World exploration, featuring the second edition of Pigafetta's famous narrative of Magellan's circumnavigation-supplemented by an early edition of Maximilianus Transylvanus's account of Magellan-and also including the complete three books of the "Summario de la general historia de l'Indie Occidentali, " Giovanni Ramusio's first collection of New World narratives, containing Martyr, Oviedo, and Ramusio's descriptions of exploration in the Americas. Evidently the Magellan account was always intended to be the fourth and final part of this collection, the first three of which detail explorations in the New World, and were printed in Venice in 1534, although the few other copies of the "Summario" that have appeared on the market have been without it. The accounts of Magellan's circumnavigation that begin this volume come from the two most authoritative descriptions of that voyage, those produced by Maximilianus Transylvanus and by Francisco Antonio Pigafetta. Ferdinand...