Bissel Johannes

Argonauticon Americanorum, sive historiae periculorum Petri de Victoria ac sociorum ejus. Libri XV. MŸnchen, Lukas Straub fŸr Johann Wagner 1647. Kl. 8¡ 12Bll. 480S. 6Bll. mit 1 gest. Titel, Holzschn.-Titelvign. u. 1 Kupferkarte, Ldr. d. Zt. mit reicher beids. Deckelverg. u. Goldschn.

      - VD17 23:256037B - Sabin 99443 (unter Victoria) - De Backer-S. I, 1514, 8 - Leclerc 67 (2. Ausg.) - Palau 102.964 (unter Petro Gobeo) - Borba de Moraes 108.- Erste Ausgabe.- Mit dem hŠufig fehlenden dekorativen Frontispiz und der schšnen Karte von Amerika (Burden 272).- The book is full of so many adventures that Henry Stevens described it as a geographical novel. With the small, beautiful map of America, derived from Ortelius.- "This book is not a true Latin translation of Pedro Govea de VictoriaÔs work., but is rather another version based on it. Bissel gives information about the Jesuit missions in America and in the AmazonÒ (Borba de Moraes).- Titel mit hs. Besitzvermerk, tls. leicht fleckig, Ebd. berieben (RŸcken stŠrker). [Attributes: First Edition]