[Rarebooks] FS: Giovio's travels. Basil: 1561 (includes description of Moscow)

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Giovio, Paolo (or, Jovius Paulus). DESCRIPTIONES, Quotquot Extant, Regionum atq[ue] Locorum. Basil: (Henricum Petri et Petrium Pernam). 1561. 8vo. 2 parts in 1, each with its own title page (see below). (16),240;180,(10)pp. With the final leaf of errata and colophon. Orig. limp vellum, old linen cloth tape strips inside front & back covers. Later endpapers.   $2,000.00 (trade discount allowed)

The first work is a description of England, Scotland, Ireland, the Hebrides and the Orkney Islands, with a long English historical chronicle. The second work, as published here (although separately collated) is the author's "Moschovia, in qua Situs Regionis Antiquis Incognitus..." a description of Moscow, but it also includes his description of Lake Como (the place of the author's birth) and a text on Italian fish In effect, this is a first collected edition by this author of 4 previously separately published works: on Roman fish in 1524; the description of Britain in 1548; the text on Moscow in 1557 (with the author Sigmund Herberstein) and his description of Lake Como ("Larii Lacus") in 1559. VD 16 G2058; BL German STC p. 360; not in Adams.