Sep 17, 2015 - Sale 2391

Sale 2391 - Lot 405

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(SOUTH AMERICA.) Bissel, Johannes. Argonauticon Americanorum. Map, engraved second title page. [24], 480, [12] pages including map. 12mo, contemporary vellum, worn and lacking backstrip; inked catalogue stamp on second title; early inscription and inked St. Charles Borromeo Seminary stamp on title page. Munich: Straub, 1647
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first edition of a work on the Jesuit missions in South America. Sometimes described as a novel based loosely on Pedro Gobeo de Victoria's 1610 Naufragio y Peregrinatio--and sometimes described as a Latin translation of that work. Borba de Moraes, page I:93; European Americana 647/28; Medina BHA 1094; Sabin 99443.