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MANUZIO, Antonio (1511-1559, editor)
Viaggi fatti da Vinetia, alla Tana, in Persia, in India, et in Constantinopoli: con la descrittione particolare di citta, luoghi, siti, costumi, & della Porta del gran Turco. Venice: Aldus, 1545.
The Fugger-Huth copy of one of the very few travel books published by the Aldine workshop. This is the second edition of a collection of travel narratives edited by Antonio Manuzio (first published in 1543). ‘The first two narratives are by Joseph Barbaro and Ambrogio Contarini, who had been sent as special envoys by the Venetians to the Persians … Another edition of the Ramberti is included, and also two voyages to India, one of which describes the expedition of Soleyman Bassa against the Portuguese in 1538’ (Blackmer). Adams V-624; Ahmanson-Murphy 338; Blackmer 1071; Renouard 134, 18.
Small octavo (156 x 98mm). 19th-century red morocco gilt by Thompson, marbled paper pastedowns, gilt turn-ins and edges (spine just a fraction faded, extremities faintly rubbed). Provenance: Marx Fugger (1529-1597; ink ownership inscription on title) – Bibliothek Oettingen-Wallerstein (by descent; stamp on title) – Henry Huth (1815-1878, red morocco gilt booklabel ‘ex museo huth’, described in The Huth Library, A Catalogue of the Printed Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters, and Engravings Collected by Henry Huth, 1880, V, p.1528; by descent to his son): – Alfred H. Huth (1850-1910; sold Sotheby’s, 11 July 1919, lot 7741).
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