Beschreibung:

Nouissime historia omniu[m] repercussiones, nouiter [editae]… que Supplementum supplementi Chronicaru[m] nuncupantur.
Venice: Albertinus de Lissona Vercellensis, 4 May 1503. Folio in 8’s with final two signatures in 4 and 10, respectively (318 x 220 mm). 462 ff. Woodcut title showing Cardinal Pallavicini’s armorial in black with red paint detail, some eleven-line floriated woodcut initials and numerous three- to eleven-line initial spaces with guide letter, red capital strokes and occasional annotations in red, printed marginalia and timeline along the gutter, four full-page woodcuts contained in ornamental borders (the Creation of Eve; Expulsion from Paradise; Murder of Abel; and the building of the Tower of Babel) and 89 cityscapes in text (from the editions of 1486 and 1490). Contemporary pigskin tooled in blind, ink title to uppermost compartment of five on spine and to front cover and to fore-edge, remnants of two clasps, front pastedown with gothic ghost lettering in two directions from inserted ephemera now lost. Condition: final blank lacking, worming throughout affecting some text, occasional thumbsoiling, tear to lower margin at c8-d2 and BB6, small hole to outer margin of n3, red ink smudges to C8v, word “undecim” cancelled on E1r, one word on G8v rubbed out and written over in ink, another with strike-through and marginal correction; vellum wormed and with straps defective, vellum worn to boards at extremities. Provenance: “Sum D. Ettonis ac S. Landelini” (early owner’s inscription to title); New York Historical Society; E. M. (library stamp to title); contemporary ink marginalia and underlining in at least two hands, a long note to lower margin R5r; Acquisition: Lenox / New York Historical Society sale; Sotheby’s New York, January 29, 1995, lot 51, $2,587.50. the first world history to include an account of columbus’ voyage based on that famed explorer’s Letter “Concerning the Islands Recently Discovered in the Indian Sea” addressed to Lord Raphael Sanchez (14 March 1493). With excerpts from speeches on the subject by the Spanish ambassador. The account appears under the title “De quattuor proaximis insulis in India extra orbem nuper inventis” (GG1v-GG2v). Bergomensis’ chronicle traces world history from creation to present day. The inclusion of Columbus makes this one of the earliest Americana and the "earliest considerable recognition of that important discoverer by any general author" (Sabin). Sabin 25083; JCB I, p. 36; Harrisse B.A.V. 42; Thacher, “Christopher Columbus,” II, pp. 73-78; Essling, 347; Adams 748; BM STC (Italian) 273.