Nov 06, 2014 - Sale 2364

Sale 2364 - Lot 153

Unsold
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
(SCIENCE.) Chaves, Jerónimo de. Chronographia o reportorio de tiempos. 2 maps in text, many other woodcut illustrations. 224, 125-163 leaves. 4to, later 1/2 calf, sticker on spine, minor wear; title page worn and laid down, worming with restoration to many leaves (mostly in margins), minor dampstaining, edges tinted red; title page in red and black; Antonio Moreira Cabral bookplate and dealer tag on front pastedown, small inked "MM" stamp on verso of title and page 52. Seville: Díaz, 1584

Additional Details

7th edition of a work on the calendar. The final pages contain a list of adjustments for many New World towns, and a map of the Americas appears in page 92. European Americana 584/15; Medina, BHA 282 ("entre varios pasajes relativos á América citaremos la tabla y catálogo de le las principales ciudades de las Indias Occidentales del Mar Océano, que se halla al fin de la obra").