Description

Americas.- Laet (Johannes de) L'Histoire du Nouveau Monde ou Description des Indes Occidentales, first edition in French, title in red and black and with woodcut printer's device, without the 2pp. dedication to Richelieu (as often), with 14 fine double-page maps after Hessel Gerritsz mounted on stubs, numerous woodcut illustrations in text, mostly of fauna and flora, extra-illustrated with 6 engraved maps of America by N.Sanson (5 folding) and a folding engraved plate of the funeral of the King of Mechoacan by F.Doosburgh, all bound in, title soiled and laid down, some light browning and occasional marginal waters-staining, map of Straits of Magellan slightly defective at fore-edge just touching border, Caher bookplate, contemporary sprinkled calf, joints split, spine ends a little worn, [Sabin 38558], folio, Leiden, Bonaventure & Abraham Elzevier, 1640.

⁂ The second printed atlas of the Americas with some of the most accurate maps of the continent of its time, including showing California as part of the mainland, not as an island.

The additional maps by Sanson are: Amerique Septentrionale, Floride, Grenade, Perou & Amazone, Chili, and Destroit de Magellan.

Lot 377

Americas.- Laet (Johannes de) L'Histoire du Nouveau Monde ou Description des Indes Occidentales, Leiden, Bonaventure & Abraham Elzevier, 1640.  

Hammer Price: £5,500

Description

Americas.- Laet (Johannes de) L'Histoire du Nouveau Monde ou Description des Indes Occidentales, first edition in French, title in red and black and with woodcut printer's device, without the 2pp. dedication to Richelieu (as often), with 14 fine double-page maps after Hessel Gerritsz mounted on stubs, numerous woodcut illustrations in text, mostly of fauna and flora, extra-illustrated with 6 engraved maps of America by N.Sanson (5 folding) and a folding engraved plate of the funeral of the King of Mechoacan by F.Doosburgh, all bound in, title soiled and laid down, some light browning and occasional marginal waters-staining, map of Straits of Magellan slightly defective at fore-edge just touching border, Caher bookplate, contemporary sprinkled calf, joints split, spine ends a little worn, [Sabin 38558], folio, Leiden, Bonaventure & Abraham Elzevier, 1640.

⁂ The second printed atlas of the Americas with some of the most accurate maps of the continent of its time, including showing California as part of the mainland, not as an island.

The additional maps by Sanson are: Amerique Septentrionale, Floride, Grenade, Perou & Amazone, Chili, and Destroit de Magellan.

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