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Vita e lettere di Americo Vespucci.
4
to.
1815 Catalogue, page 127, no. 246, Vita e
lettere di Amerigo Vespucci, 4to dal Bandini.
BANDINI,
Angelo Maria.
Vita e Lettere di Amerigo Vespvcci Gentilvomo
Fiorentino raccolte e illvstrate dall’Abate Angelo Maria Bandini.
Firenze
mdccxlv
. Nella Stamperia
all’Insegna di Apollo con Licenza de’ Superiori. [1745.]
E125 .V5 V49
First Edition. 4to. 103 leaves, engraved frontispiece
with full length portrait of Vespuccio and a bust portrait of Dante inset, by
I. Menabuoni after I. Sveicarte, engraved vignette representing Apollo on the
title-page,
Ex. Gem. Mus.
Med.
, folded printed genealogical table of the Vespucci family.
Sabin 3149.
Vignaud,
Améric Vespuce, page
199.
Entered by
Jefferson in his undated manuscript catalogue with the price
9-0.
On August 28, 1814, Jefferson sent a portrait of
Vespucci to Joseph Delaplaine, and mentioned this work in the accompanying
letter: “
. . . The book from which I
cut the print of Vespucius which I sent you has the following title and date.
‘Elogio d’Amerigo Vespucci che ha riportato il premio dalla nobile accademia
Etrusca di Cortona nel dì 15. d’Ottobre dell’anno 1788. del P. Stanislao
Canovai delle scuole pie publico professore di fisica Matematica, in Firenze
1788. nella stamp. di Pietro Allegrini.’ this print is unquestionably from the
same original in the gallery of Florence from which my copy was also taken. the
portrait is named in the catalogue of Vasari, and mentioned also by Bandini in
his life of Americus Vespucius, but neither gives it’s history--both tell us
there was a portrait of Vespucius taken by Domenico, and a fine head of him by
Da Vinci, which however are lost, so that it would seem that this of Florence
is the only one existing . . .
”
Angelo Maria
Bandini
, 1726-1803, Italian author.
[3970]
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Purchas’s Pilgrimage
p. fol.
1815 Catalogue, page 126, no. 247, as
above.
PURCHAS,
Samuel.
Pvrchas his Pilgrimage. Or Relations of the
World and the Religions observed in all Ages and Places discouered, from the
Creation vnto this Present. In Fovre Parts. This First containeth a
Theologicall and Geographical Historie of Asia, Africa, and America, with the
Ilands Adiacent. Declaring the Ancient Religions before the Flovd, the
Heathnish, Jewish, and Saracenicall in all Ages since, in those parts
professed, with their seuerall Opinions, Idols, Oracles, Temples, Priests,
Fasts, Feasts, Sacrifices, and Rites Religious. Their beginnings, Proceedings,
Alterations, Sects, Orders and Successions. With briefe Descriptions of the
Countries, Nations, States, Discoueries; Priuate and Publike Customes, and the
most Remarkable Rarities of Nature, or humane Industrie, in the same. The
second Edition, much enlarged with Additions through the whole Worke; by Samvel
Pvrchas, Minister at Estwood in Essex . . .
London: Printed by
William Stansby
for
Henrie Fetherstone, and are to be sold at his Shop in Pauls Church-yard at
the Signe of the Rose,
1614.
G159 .P976 1614
Folio. 482 leaves, woodcut initials and ornaments,
complimentary verses and a catalogue of authors at the beginning. The part
relating to America, which extends through the eighth and ninth books, begins
on
