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MORISOT, Claude Bathélémy.- ORBIS | MARITIMI | SIVE | RERVM IN MARI | ET LITTORIBVS | GESTARVM GENERALIS HISTORIA: | IN QVA | Inuentiones nauium, earumdem partes, armamenta. Instructiones | Classium, nauigationes, prælia maritima, arma, stratagemata, | trophæa, triumphi, naumachiiæ...- Divione: Apud Petrvm Palliot Typographum Regis, M. DC. XLIII. [1643].- [22], 725, [23] p.: il.; 35 cm.- E
Claude Bathélémy Morisot (1592-1661), French intellectual, jurist and writer, born in Dijon. First and only edition of the author's most famous work, considered by many to be the first encyclopedia of naval and maritime history. The edition consists of a typographed title page, followed by an engraved frontispiece; a leaf with a dedication to Pierre Séguir (1588-1672), chancellor of France since 1635; three leaves with a Latin preface; a leaf with the text “Typographus lectoris”; five leaves with the “Elencus capitum” (in the end, the “Privilege du Roi”). The text occupies 725 pages, with the errata on the back of the final page; 11 pages follow with the “Index rerum et verborum”. On the verso of the final leaf, a colophon with the date of M. DC. XLIII. The illustrations, all intaglio (burin and etching), appear on the aforementioned frontispiece, a full-page engraving (p. 66), nine engravings of coins and medals, 23 maps (1/2 page), 11 engravings of ships (1/2 page) and a large folding engraving (p. 194/195), representing a show of naval battle in a Roman amphitheater (“Naumachiae id est navalis pugnae...”). Copy slightly cropped and some browning, sometimes strong, as in most known copies. Contemporary binding, full parchment. Sabin, 50723. Borba de Moraes, 597/598.

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PINTO, Fernão Mendes.- THE | VOYAGES | AND | ADVENTURES, | OF | Fernand Mendez Pinto, | A Portugal: During his | TRAVELS | for the space of one and twenty years in | The Kingdoms of Ethiopia, China, Tartaria, Cauchin- | china, Calaminham, Siam, Pegu, Japan, and a | great part of the East-Indies. | With a Relation and Description of most of the Places | thereof; their Religion, Laws, Riches, Customs, and | Government in the time of Peace and War. | Where he five times suffered Shipwrack, was sixteen times sold, | and thirteen times made a Slave...- London: Printed by J. Macock, and are to be sold by Henry Herringman, 1663.- [14], 326 (i. é 318) p.; 30 cm.- E.
Second edition in English (the first is from 1653) of the famous travel book by Fernão Mendes Pinto (1510/14-1583), a famous traveler and adventurer, born in Montemor-o-Velho. Fernão Mendes left for India in 1537, having remained in the East for about 21 years. The “Pilgrimage”, a fantastic account of his troubled adventures, was originally published on the initiative of Friar Belchior Faria, 31 years after his death (1614), from the original manuscript bequeathed by the author to Casa Pia dos Penitentes. Paging error from p. 232 (wrongly 240) to the end. Copy slightly handled, with browning, sometimes strong and other minor stains; third folio bound before second. Title page and last three pages with the inner margin restored (reconstructed). It is, however, complete and solid. Binding from the 20th century, with double rectangles blind decorated and with inlays, in the covers, and gold closed on the spine (slightly worn joints). Palau, 163209. Leite de Faria, 40-2. Library of King D. Manuel II of Portugal, refers only to the 1653 edition (962). Cordier (BJ), 40 and (BI), 113. Reiss & Auvermann (Auction 40), 671 (same copy).

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