On India and Ceylon by De Bry 1606
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INDIA - CEYLON. BRY, JOHANN THEODOR DE - BRY, JOHANN ISRAEL DE - ARTHUS, GOTTHARD. Indiae Orientalis pars septima, navigationes duas, Primam, trium annorum, à Georgio Spilbergio, trium navium praefecto, Ann. 1601. ex Selandia in Indiam Orientalem susceptam: Alteram, novem annorum, à Casparo Balby, Gemmario Veneto, anno 1579. ex Alepo Babyloniam versus. & inde porro ad regnum Pegu usque continuatam, continens. Omnium, quaeilli quidem ad annum 1604. huic vero ad annum 1588. usque acciderunt, commemoratione, regum item, locorum, populorum, rituumque variorum descriptione addita. Auctore m. Gotardo Arthus... Francofurti (typis Wolffgang Richteri) 1606.
Folio (about 308x200 mm.). (4), 1-126, (2 blank), (2)pp, ll. I-XXIII. Title within engraved figurative border (browned in the margins), 1 engraved vignette, 22 engraved plates, of which 2 double-page (all, some foxing).
Contemporary brown mottled calf, slightly worn, gilt border, gilt decoration on middle of covers, lacks ties, gilt and blindtooled spine. Some foxing. Inscription (partly overwritten) in uppe margin of title, dated 1608. Inscription in lower part of Tho: Kny: (=Thomas Knyvett) dated 1608. Signature on inside of upper cover T. Norcliffe. Engraved bookplate.
Deals with Joris von Spilbergen´s voyage to Ceylon in 1601-04 and Gasparo Balbi´s voyage to Pegu via Syria in 1579-88. This part is mainly devoted to Inda and Ceylin with excellent plates of the latter.
Thomas Knyvet, 1st Baron Knyvet (or Knevytt, Knyvett, Knevett, Knevitt, 1545-1622) was an English courtier and Member of Parliament who played a part in foiling the Gunpowder Plot.
From the library of Swedish antiquarian bookdealer Björn Löwendahl (1941-2013).
Auktionsnummer:
6163
Date:
2016-06-21