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Americas.- Benzoni (Girolamo) La Historia del Mondo Nuovo, collation: A-Y8, Z4, second edition, woodcut printer's device on title, woodcut portrait medallion of the author, ornaments, initials and 18 illustrations in text, with final colophon leaf, contemporary ink inscription at foot of title crossed out, A-H signatures a little browned, a few stains, cropped affecting some head-lines, later tree sheep, spine gilt with red roan label, slightly rubbed, [Adams B688; Sabin 4791], 8vo, Venice, Pietro & Francesco Tini, 1572.

⁂ Account of the Spanish New World by an Italian merchant, first published in 1565, with descriptions of the customs and religions of the native Americans. Benzoni spent fourteen years travelling through the Caribbean, Central America and Peru and was critical of the Spanish treatment of the inhabitants. The woodcuts include natives in canoes, growing cacao for drinking chocolate (which he found distasteful), making bread and wine, dancing, fishing, worshipping the sun atop a pyramid, and gold- & silver-smithing.

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Americas.- Benzoni (Girolamo) La Historia del Mondo Nuovo, collation: A-Y8, Z4, second edition, woodcut printer's device on title, woodcut portrait medallion of the author, ornaments, initials and 18 illustrations in text, with final colophon leaf, contemporary ink inscription at foot of title crossed out, A-H signatures a little browned, a few stains, cropped affecting some head-lines, later tree sheep, spine gilt with red roan label, slightly rubbed, [Adams B688; Sabin 4791], 8vo, Venice, Pietro & Francesco Tini, 1572.

⁂ Account of the Spanish New World by an Italian merchant, first published in 1565, with descriptions of the customs and religions of the native Americans. Benzoni spent fourteen years travelling through the Caribbean, Central America and Peru and was critical of the Spanish treatment of the inhabitants. The woodcuts include natives in canoes, growing cacao for drinking chocolate (which he found distasteful), making bread and wine, dancing, fishing, worshipping the sun atop a pyramid, and gold- & silver-smithing.

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