Author: BENZO(NI), Hieronymus.
Title: De gedenkwaardige West-Indise voyagien, gedaan door Christoffel Columbus, Americus Vesputius en Lodewijck Hennepin. Behelzende een naaukeurige en waarachtige beschrijving der eerste en laatste Americaanse ontdekkingen... Mitsgaders een getrouw en aenmerkelijk verhaal van de Opperhoofden der Spanjaarden onderlinge oneenigheden doenmaals in America, als ook de onmenschelijke wreedheden door haer aen d'Indianen gepleegd. In't Italiaans beschreeven .. nu eerst getrouwelijk vertaald.
Description: Leyden, Pieter vander Aa, 1704.4to. Modern marbled boards. With engraved frontispiece and 5 folding engraved plates. 86 (=89),(11) pp.The first Dutch edition was published in Haarlem in 1610. - The first part is a translation of Girolamo Benzoni's (1518/19-1570) La Historia del mondo nuovo, Venice, 1565. Benzoni went in 1541 as a soldier in the Spanish army at an age of 22 from Milan to the New World. He spent the next 15 years stationed at various posts throughout America. 'It is valuable as an early record of the establishment of Europeans in America written from a non-Spanish standpoint. The woodcuts are of particular interest: engraved from the author's own drawings, they illustrate the daily life of the Indians and some of the natural resources of the country' (Howgego p.107). He describes vividly the Spanish cruelties committed against the Indians. The second part contains the voyages of Amerigo Vespucci (1451-1512). The account of Hennepin called for on the title-page is not present, it was issued separately. - ( Age-browned; upper outer corner occasionally waterstained).Tiele 88; Cat. NHSM I, p.263; Muller, America, p.12; European-Americana V, 704/16; Sabin 4806.
Keywords: America Dutch travel Jubileum cat.
Title: De gedenkwaardige West-Indise voyagien, gedaan door Christoffel Columbus, Americus Vesputius en Lodewijck Hennepin. Behelzende een naaukeurige en waarachtige beschrijving der eerste en laatste Americaanse ontdekkingen... Mitsgaders een getrouw en aenmerkelijk verhaal van de Opperhoofden der Spanjaarden onderlinge oneenigheden doenmaals in America, als ook de onmenschelijke wreedheden door haer aen d'Indianen gepleegd. In't Italiaans beschreeven .. nu eerst getrouwelijk vertaald.
Description: Leyden, Pieter vander Aa, 1704.4to. Modern marbled boards. With engraved frontispiece and 5 folding engraved plates. 86 (=89),(11) pp.The first Dutch edition was published in Haarlem in 1610. - The first part is a translation of Girolamo Benzoni's (1518/19-1570) La Historia del mondo nuovo, Venice, 1565. Benzoni went in 1541 as a soldier in the Spanish army at an age of 22 from Milan to the New World. He spent the next 15 years stationed at various posts throughout America. 'It is valuable as an early record of the establishment of Europeans in America written from a non-Spanish standpoint. The woodcuts are of particular interest: engraved from the author's own drawings, they illustrate the daily life of the Indians and some of the natural resources of the country' (Howgego p.107). He describes vividly the Spanish cruelties committed against the Indians. The second part contains the voyages of Amerigo Vespucci (1451-1512). The account of Hennepin called for on the title-page is not present, it was issued separately. - ( Age-browned; upper outer corner occasionally waterstained).Tiele 88; Cat. NHSM I, p.263; Muller, America, p.12; European-Americana V, 704/16; Sabin 4806.
Keywords: America Dutch travel Jubileum cat.
Price: EUR 1045.00 = appr. US$ 1135.76 Seller: Gert Jan Bestebreurtje Rare Books (NVvA/ILAB)
- Book number: 28524
- Book number: 28524