Storia dell’America. Capo dell’Universitá di Edinburgo, Regio Istoriografo di Scozia, e Membro della Reale Accademia di Storia in Madrid. Tradizione dall’Inglese. Dedicata all’Autore.
In Pisa: Per Francesco Pieraccini, 1780. Item #1408 Two volumes folio. 300 x 220 mm., [121 x 8 ½ inches]. [xxxi], [1], 572 pp., with engraved portrait of the author after Joshua Reynolds and two folding maps; [4], 660, [4] pp., with two folding maps and one folding plate illustrating hieroglyphics. Bound in mottled calf spine with red and black leather labels and decorated paper boards in a tree calf design. Old library label at the base of the spine of both volumes. Binding with some minor rubbing and a few spots along the base of the spine showing very minor deterioration. Very attractive copy. This large paper copy is signed by the translator “Angelo Erizzo Nob. Venezia” on the final leaf of the Preface. At the end of the second volume there is a 15 page list of Spanish books and manuscripts used by the author, followed by a 30 page index of subjects covered in the text. The maps illustrate the Gulf of Mexico, a full map of South America. a map of Central America and the Pacific Coast, and a map of Mexico, all designed by Thomas Kitchin and engraved by Bartolomeo Nerici. The folding plate of hieroglyphics is unsigned. Rare Italian edition, beautifully printed and bound in Pisa by the printer Francesco Pieraccini. “The text is divided into eight books, containing the history of the discovery of America and the conquest of Mexico and Peru. A list of about 2234 Spanish books and manuscripts, consulted in the preparation of the work, is given at the end of the second volume.” Sabin This rare edition, printed only three years after the first edition of 1777, is not cited by Sabin, ICCU (Italian Union Catalogue), or OCLC; NUC cites four copies in America, New York Public Library, Harvard, University of Michigan, and John Carter Brown Library. (1408)
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