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MEDINA, PEDRO DE. L'Arte del Navegar. Numerous woodcut illustrations, including full-page map of the New World, Europe, and Africa on E1r, and 2 small world maps on D2r and Q7r. [12], 137, [1] leaves, including blanks b4 and R10. 4to, 216x150 mm, contemporary limp vellum with spine title in ink, worn and soiled, lacking ties; free endpapers renewed; marginal soiling and foxing through much of volume, scattered marginal stains, narrow horizontal strip excised from blank upper margin of title; 1/4 morocco folding case. Venice: (Aurelio Pinzi for) Giovanni Battista Pederzano, 1554
first edition in italian, first issue, of the first practical treatise on navigation, originally published in 1545 in Spanish. The full-page map depicts ships on routes between Spain and the New World. Medina was a cosmographer and examiner of pilots at the Casa de Contratación in Seville, the agency in charge of Spanish colonial exploration and trade. Alden 554/39; Harvard/Mortimer-Italian 300; Palau 159679.
