[Rarebooks] FS: A 16th c. Italian traveler's description of the British Isles and Moscow. Basil: 1561

[Kenneth Karmiole]

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, inner hinges reinforced with old linen cloth strips. Later endpapers.       $1,500.00 (trade discount allowed)
The first part is a description of England, Scotland, Ireland, the Hebrides and the Orkney Islands, with a long English historical chronicle. The second part, as published here (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. VD 16 G2058; BL German STC p. 360; not in Adams.

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