Il Secondo Cantare del'India.
Rome: [Johann Besicken and Sigismundus Mayer, between 11 August 1494 and 10 August 1495]. Chancery 4to (195 x 140 mm). Collation : [14]. [8] pp. Pages [2-8] in double column. 40 lines. Gothic types 4:71 (text), 10:104 (colophon). Opening text page within ornamental woodcut border, four partly white-on-black woodcut text illustrations, woodcut initial. Modern marbled wrappers; suede-lined calf chemise and matching morocco box. Condition : Minor marginal repairs to ff. 1 and 3, lightly washed. Acquisition : purchased from Librairie Thomas-Scheler (2000), $110,000 first edition of dati's verse description of the east indies, issued to meet demand for news of columbus' discoveries. an important and rare incunable. Derived from the legend of Prester John, the present verse was intended to satisfy the wide desire for information on the undiscovered lands of the New World: at the time of publication the public assumed that these were the lands reached by Columbus in his voyages across the Atlantic. (Dati's Italian verse version of Columbus' first letter appeared in 1493.) The "primo cantare" (referred to in line 10) was a verse narrative contained in Dati's Magnificenza del Prete Gianni, of which the only extant edition was that printed in Florence by Lorenzo Morgiani ca. 1492-94. The work is illustrated with striking woodcut illustrations, of which three show mythical indian natives, including a couple sporting giant feet, men with enormous ears or the head of a dog, headless men with single eye in the chest, etc. Accompanying them are fantastic animals: a flying cat and winged snake, a snake with a second, human, head, a two-colored horse, and giant ants and birds. Also depicted are "pigmies" and hermaphrodites, identified with ribbon labels. The more realistic fourth woodcut shows a king astride an elephant approaching a castle with his spear-bristling army. Only four copies recorded in ISTC, of which three in US libraries (Harvard, Lilly Library, LC Rosenwald), and one in Rome (Bib. Casatense). No copies are recorded in ABPC in the last 30 years. B. Mendell collection of Americana, 25; Harrisse, Bibliotheca Americana Vetustissima, p.43 (note); Goff, D-48; Hain, 5964; Klebs, 323.1; Sander, 2360; Rosenwald, 254; IGI, 3313; GW, 7994: Walsh 1501.
Il Secondo Cantare del'India.
Rome: [Johann Besicken and Sigismundus Mayer, between 11 August 1494 and 10 August 1495]. Chancery 4to (195 x 140 mm). Collation : [14]. [8] pp. Pages [2-8] in double column. 40 lines. Gothic types 4:71 (text), 10:104 (colophon). Opening text page within ornamental woodcut border, four partly white-on-black woodcut text illustrations, woodcut initial. Modern marbled wrappers; suede-lined calf chemise and matching morocco box. Condition : Minor marginal repairs to ff. 1 and 3, lightly washed. Acquisition : purchased from Librairie Thomas-Scheler (2000), $110,000 first edition of dati's verse description of the east indies, issued to meet demand for news of columbus' discoveries. an important and rare incunable. Derived from the legend of Prester John, the present verse was intended to satisfy the wide desire for information on the undiscovered lands of the New World: at the time of publication the public assumed that these were the lands reached by Columbus in his voyages across the Atlantic. (Dati's Italian verse version of Columbus' first letter appeared in 1493.) The "primo cantare" (referred to in line 10) was a verse narrative contained in Dati's Magnificenza del Prete Gianni, of which the only extant edition was that printed in Florence by Lorenzo Morgiani ca. 1492-94. The work is illustrated with striking woodcut illustrations, of which three show mythical indian natives, including a couple sporting giant feet, men with enormous ears or the head of a dog, headless men with single eye in the chest, etc. Accompanying them are fantastic animals: a flying cat and winged snake, a snake with a second, human, head, a two-colored horse, and giant ants and birds. Also depicted are "pigmies" and hermaphrodites, identified with ribbon labels. The more realistic fourth woodcut shows a king astride an elephant approaching a castle with his spear-bristling army. Only four copies recorded in ISTC, of which three in US libraries (Harvard, Lilly Library, LC Rosenwald), and one in Rome (Bib. Casatense). No copies are recorded in ABPC in the last 30 years. B. Mendell collection of Americana, 25; Harrisse, Bibliotheca Americana Vetustissima, p.43 (note); Goff, D-48; Hain, 5964; Klebs, 323.1; Sander, 2360; Rosenwald, 254; IGI, 3313; GW, 7994: Walsh 1501.
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