Jun 11, 2009 - Sale 2183

Sale 2183 - Lot 40

Price Realized: $ 7,800
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 10,000 - $ 15,000
RAMUSIO, GIOVANNI BATTISTA. Delle Navigationi et Viaggi. 10 wood-engraved maps (of 13); lacking 3 double-page maps. 3 volumes. 4to, 290x205 mm, later reverse calf; several leaves with short repairable tears, leaf 395 in third volume with loss along fore-edge affecting 4 words of text, worming around hinges on endpapers, scattered dampstaining (principally along gutter in volumes 1 and 2), front hinge sprung after first gathering in volume 1 and one map loose; early institutional bookplates on front flyleaves. Mixed edition. Venice: Giunti, 1613; 1583; 1606

Additional Details

Volume 1 contains double-page maps of Sumatra and Africa (African map should be in volume 3); plus a single-page map of the course of the Nile. Volume 3 contains double-page maps of the Americas, Peru, Brasil, Nova Francia, and Hochelaga (trimmed to neatline in right margin), and single-page maps of Hispaniola and Mexico City.