Bissel Johannes

Argonauticon Americanorum, sive historiae periculorum Petri de Victoria ac sociorum ejus. Libri XV. München, Lukas Straub für Johann Wagner 1647. Kl. 8°. 12 Bll., 480 S., 6 Bll., mit 1 gest. Titel, Holzschn.-Titelvign. u. 1 Kupferkarte, Ldr. d. Zt. mit reicher beids. Deckelverg. u. Goldschn. VD17 23:256037B - Sabin 99443 (unter Victoria) - De Backer-S. I, 1514, 8 - Leclerc 67 (2. Ausg.) - Palau 102.964 (unter Petro Gobeo) - Borba de Moraes 108.- Erste Ausgabe.- Mit dem häufig fehlenden dekorativen Frontispiz und der schönen Karte von Amerika (Burden 272).- The book is full of so many adventures that Henry Stevens described it as a geographical novel. With the small, beautiful map of America, derived from Ortelius.- "This book is not a true Latin translation of Pedro Govea de Victoria‘s work..., but is rather another version based on it. Bissel gives information about the Jesuit missions in America and in the Amazon" (Borba de Moraes).- Titel mit hs. Besitzvermerk, tls. leicht fleckig, Ebd. berieben (Rücken stärker).# First Edition.- Expanded translation of Pedro Goveo de Victoria s "Relación de su Naufragio en la costa del Perú" (1610). The book is an historical romance based on that account of the Spanish Jesuit s travels and perilous adventures in Peru, Bahamas, Antilles, and Panama, and the arrival at the Jesuit mission in Lima in 1597.- With engraved frontispiece, title page illustration, and Western Hemisphere map derived from Ortelius.- (Südamerika)

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