Ppp
6, page 717, with captaion title:
Relations of the Discoveries, Regions,
and Religions, of the New World. Of New France, Virginia, Florida; New Spaine,
with other Regions of America, Mexicana, and of their Religions.
Sabin 66680.
STC 20506.
John Carter Brown 101.
This work is entered by Jefferson and in the 1815
Library of Congress Catalogue in the Americana section of the chapter on
Geography. In the later Library of Congress catalogues it is reclassified into
Geography--General. It is entered by Jefferson in his undated manuscript
catalogue, under America--North, with the price
4/-.
Samuel
Purchas
, 1575?-1626, English divine, first published his
Pilgrimage in 1613.
Jefferson’s copy of this
second edition would seem to have been bought in
England, the price being four shillings, and his classification tends to prove
that he was interested only in the American sections.
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Delle navigazione e viaggi raccolte dal
Ramusio.
3. v.
fol.
1815
Catalogue, page 122, no. 271, as above.
RAMUSIO,
Giovanni Battista.
Delle Navigationi et Viaggi raccolte da M. Gio.
Battista Ramvsio, in
tre volvmi divise . . .
In
Venetia: appresso i
Givnti,
m dc xiii
.--
Delle
Navigationi et Viaggi Raccolte da M. Gio. Battista Ramvsio, et illustrate con
molti vaghi Discorsi da lui dichiarati: Volvme Secondo . . .
In
Venetia,
m dcvi
. Appresso i
Givnti.
Delle Navigationi et Viaggi Raccolte da M. Gio. Battista Ramvsio, Volvme Terzo
. . .
In
Venetia,
m dcvi
.
Appresso i
Givnti. [1613, 1606, 1606.]
3 vol. Folio. Volume I,
sixth edition, 432 leaves, 3
double-page engraved maps, woodcut map of the Nile, plans; Volume II,
fourth
edition, 370 leaves; Volume III,
third edition, 461 leaves, engraved and
woodcut maps and plans. No copy of these editions was available for
collation.
Sabin
67735, 67739, 67742.
John Carter Brown II, page 42 (vol. II and III).
See the
note to Church 99.
Jefferson bought the three volumes from
Froullé in Paris
on March 5, 1788, price
72. His chief interest was evidently Volume III, which
contains the voyages relative to America, as the volumes are classified by him
in the American section of the Geography chapter. The 1815 Library of Congress
catalogue follows Jefferson. In later Library of Congress catalogues the
volumes are reclassified into Geography--General.
Giovanni
Battista Ramusio
, 1485-1557, Italian scholar. “This is one of the
earliest and the most important collection of Voyages and Travels of the
sixteenth century; the third volume being entirely devoted to America. It
contains translations of works that had previously appeared in
Spanish,
French,
and
Latin, and some from manuscripts which had never before been published.
This work was compiled during the latter part of Ramusio’s life and is
carefully and intelligently done, as he had devoted his mature years to
historical and geographical study, in which he had given instruction in a
school carried on at his own house. He left material for a fourth volume, but
the MS. was destroyed in a fire which burned the printing-house of the
publishers, not long after his death, in 1557.”--Church. An excellent account
of Ramusio and his work by Sir Henry Yule is in the
Encyclopædia
Britannica
.
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Collection des grands voiages aux Indes
Occidentales par De Bry.
XI. parts in 3. vols.
fol. Frankfort.
1815 Catalogue, page 122, no. 270, as above,
but omitting
grands and
reading
3 v
fol.
BRY,
Theodor de.
The Great or American Voyages, Parts I to XI,
in
Latin.
Frankfort and
Oppenheim,
1590-1619.
G159 .B7
Folio. 11 parts in 3 volumes.
Jefferson’s copy was bought for him at
auction by
Van Damme of Amsterdam (Jefferson himself being in Amsterdam at the
time), in 1789, price
12 guineas.
Jefferson
originally ordered the first part only (with a number of other books) from a
catalogue which had
