BENZONI (GIROLAMO): - De Gedenkwaardige West-Indise Voyagien, Gedaan door Christoffel Columbus, Americus Vesputius, En Lodewijk Hennepin. Behelzende een naaukeurige en waarachtige Beschrijving der eerste en laatste Americaanse Ontdekkingen, Door le voornoemde Reizigers gedan
Rotterdam, By Barent Bos..., 1704. Small 4to, pp. [iii] - 89 [misprinted 86], [90 - 100 index], engraved frontispiece, 2 folding engraved plates, contemporary quarter vellum, marbled boards; ?lacking 3 plates, lower corners water-stained. Benzoni's history of the "new world" was first published in Venice in 1565 and quickly translated into German in 1579 and other European languages; this Dutch edition was preceded by one of 1663. Sabin 4806 (calling for 6 plates).
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