1629 1ed Laet HISPANIA America Caribbean FLORIDA Brazil Spanish Voyages SPAIN

1629 1^ed Laet HISPANIA America Caribbean FLORIDA Brazil Spanish Voyages SPAIN

 

An incredibly rare and impressive Elzevier printing of Joannes de Laet’s ‘Hispania’. This work was one of the best works describing early America, South America and Brazil, Central America, and various Caribbean Islands including Puerto Rico. De Laet was known for his studies on various areas of cosmography, however, ‘Hispania’ happens to be his most remembered because of the inclusion of early New World studies. Laet also discusses information on the Congo and Angola, Ceylon, the Philippines, and Madagascar.

 

Item number: #6888

Price: $599

LAET, Joannes de

Hispania, sive de Regis Hispaniae Regnis et opibus Commentarius.

Lugd. Batav. [Leiden] : Ex officina Elzeviriana, 1629. First edition.

 

Details:

• Collation: Complete with all pages

o   [16], 498, [2]

• References: Willems 313; Goldsmid I, 34; Sabin 38560; Rahir 284

o   Goldsmid: calls this edition the superior edition of the two printed in 1629

• Language: Latin
• Binding: Vellum; tight & secure
• Size: ~4.25in X 2.5in (11cm x 6.5cm)

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