BENZONI, Girolamo (b.1519). Novae novi orbis historiae, id est rerum ab Hispanis in India Occidentali hactenus gestarum, & acerbo illorum in eas gentes dominatu . - LE CHAILLEUX, Nicolas. De gallorum expedition in Floridam, & clade ab Hispanis non minus iniustè quàm immaniter ipsis illata, Anno 1565, Brevis Historia . [Geneva:] Eustace Vignon, 1581.
BENZONI, Girolamo (b.1519). Novae novi orbis historiae, id est rerum ab Hispanis in India Occidentali hactenus gestarum, & acerbo illorum in eas gentes dominatu . - LE CHAILLEUX, Nicolas. De gallorum expedition in Floridam, & clade ab Hispanis non minus iniustè quàm immaniter ipsis illata, Anno 1565, Brevis Historia . [Geneva:] Eustace Vignon, 1581. Two parts in one volume, 8 o (169 x 104 mm). Woodcut anchor device on title, initials, head- and tail-pieces. (Wormhole catching some letters from beginning to n1.) Contemporary pigskin, elaborately blocked in blind, each cover with central panel and surrounding border with blocks of the virtues, dated 1585 with initials "P S L" (very slight wear at extremities). Provenance : binding; early inscriptions on pastedown and title; Rudolph Kerr (inscription dated 1856 on pastedown, Kerr family armorial bookplate). FIRST LATIN EDITION, second issue with the title-page date changed from 1578. This is the first edition of Benzoni to include the translator Le Chailleux's account of the Spanish destruction of the French Huguenot colony in Florida in the 1660s. The circulation of Benzoni's book was forbidden in Spain, but it enjoyed great popularity in the other European countries, and because of this wide readership, news of France's venture in Florida spread throughout the Continent. Benzoni was born in Milan around 1519 and at the age of twenty-two left Italy to tour the New World. After fourteen years of travel he returned and published the first edition (in Italian: Venice, 1565). His detailed description of the Indians before the great period of European influence adds importance to his description. Field notes that Benzoni's work is "the first book of Travels of which America has been so fruitful, as Benzoni seems to have been the first who travelled merely to gratify his curiosity and recorded his observations." Alden & Landis 581/4; Adams B-686; Arents 25-1; Field 119; JBC (3) I:283; Palau 27629; Sabin 4792n.
BENZONI, Girolamo (b.1519). Novae novi orbis historiae, id est rerum ab Hispanis in India Occidentali hactenus gestarum, & acerbo illorum in eas gentes dominatu . - LE CHAILLEUX, Nicolas. De gallorum expedition in Floridam, & clade ab Hispanis non minus iniustè quàm immaniter ipsis illata, Anno 1565, Brevis Historia . [Geneva:] Eustace Vignon, 1581.
BENZONI, Girolamo (b.1519). Novae novi orbis historiae, id est rerum ab Hispanis in India Occidentali hactenus gestarum, & acerbo illorum in eas gentes dominatu . - LE CHAILLEUX, Nicolas. De gallorum expedition in Floridam, & clade ab Hispanis non minus iniustè quàm immaniter ipsis illata, Anno 1565, Brevis Historia . [Geneva:] Eustace Vignon, 1581. Two parts in one volume, 8 o (169 x 104 mm). Woodcut anchor device on title, initials, head- and tail-pieces. (Wormhole catching some letters from beginning to n1.) Contemporary pigskin, elaborately blocked in blind, each cover with central panel and surrounding border with blocks of the virtues, dated 1585 with initials "P S L" (very slight wear at extremities). Provenance : binding; early inscriptions on pastedown and title; Rudolph Kerr (inscription dated 1856 on pastedown, Kerr family armorial bookplate). FIRST LATIN EDITION, second issue with the title-page date changed from 1578. This is the first edition of Benzoni to include the translator Le Chailleux's account of the Spanish destruction of the French Huguenot colony in Florida in the 1660s. The circulation of Benzoni's book was forbidden in Spain, but it enjoyed great popularity in the other European countries, and because of this wide readership, news of France's venture in Florida spread throughout the Continent. Benzoni was born in Milan around 1519 and at the age of twenty-two left Italy to tour the New World. After fourteen years of travel he returned and published the first edition (in Italian: Venice, 1565). His detailed description of the Indians before the great period of European influence adds importance to his description. Field notes that Benzoni's work is "the first book of Travels of which America has been so fruitful, as Benzoni seems to have been the first who travelled merely to gratify his curiosity and recorded his observations." Alden & Landis 581/4; Adams B-686; Arents 25-1; Field 119; JBC (3) I:283; Palau 27629; Sabin 4792n.
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