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GALLUCCI, Theatrvm Mvndi, et Temporis

vbi Astrologiae principia cernvntvr ad Medi-
cinam accomodata, Geographica ad Naviga-
tionem. . nunc primum in lucem editum .
Ioanne Pavlo Gallvcio Salvensi avctore

sm. 4to. numerous woodcuts with movable pieces,

including a full-page map of each of the two

Hemispheres; fine copy in the original limp

vellum, with a large woodcut bookplate bearing the

arms and name of Christopher Baron of Wolcken-

stein, 1594

£ s. d.

CONTENTS: I. Voyages de Marco Polo; II. Ruines

de Palenqué, Recherches sur l'ancienne population de
l'Amérique, Mémoire sur la Perse, etc. etc.; III.
Orographie de l'Europe, etc. etc.; IV. Jourdain Catalani,
Andia y Varela, Gul. de Rubruk, Du Plan de Carpin,
Bernard le Sage, Sæwulf, etc.; V, VI. Géographie
d'EDRISI.

Bernard Quaritch, 15 Piccadilly.

GEORGIA. Some Account of the Designs of the Trustees for establishing the Colony of Georgia in America, original prospectus, consisting of two folio leaves, with a map printed at foot of the fourth page, n. d. (1733)—REASONS for establishing the Colony of Georgia. . [by Benjamin Martyn] with a fine frontispiece and tail-piece by John Pine (the engraver of the famous Horace), and the same map as in the prospectus, 2 leaves and 48 pp. 4to. 1733-bound together in I vol. 4to. red morocco extra, by Zaehnsdorf

£ s. d.

1733 7 7 0 The first two printed documents relating to the State of Georgia.

GERALDINUS. Itinerarium ad Regiones svb Eqvinoctiali plaga constitvtas Alexandri Geraldini Amerini . 12mo. with engraved and printed titles; 12mo. red morocco, silk linings, gilt edges Romæ, 1631 4 15 0

Geraldinus, who died in San Domingo in 1525, was the first bishop in the New World. This is his Diary, ending 1522.

GIO. GIOSEPPE DI S. TERESA Istoria delle Gverre del Regno del Brasile accadvte tra la Corona di Portogallo, e la Repvblica di Olanda, 2 vols. in 1, sm. folio, with engraved and printed titles, 2 portraits and 23 large folding maps and plates; calf Roma, 1698 3 30

A well-written book, by an author thoroughly acquainted with the subject. The engravings are executed with masterly skill.

GILBERT (Sir Humphrey) A DISCOVRSE OF A
DISCOUERIE FOR A NEW PASSAGE TO CATAIA.
Written by Sir Hvmfrey Gilbert, Knight.

Small 4to. with the folding woodcut map in fac-
simile; old calf

£ s. d.

Henry Middleton for Richarde Ihones, 1576 40
EXCESSIVELY RARE. Bolton Corney's copy fetched
£46 in 1871, and a badly restored copy (with facsimile
map) brought a long price in a London sale in 1883.
This is the only copy that has passed through my hands;
and there was none in either the Barlow or the Ives
collections. It is an essay to prove the practicability of
the North-West Passage. Gilbert, who was drowned off
Newfoundland in 1583, is renowned as the first English-
man who attempted to found a colony in the New World.
-There is an interesting preface by George Gascoine,
and a Prophetical Sonnet by him concerning the future
fame of Sir Humphrey.

The book is bound up with the First Edition of
"The Worlde or an historicall description of the most
famous kingdomes and commonweales," translated [from
Botero] by IR [Robert Johnson], John Faggard, 1601.
This first edition is a very rare book, unknown to the
bibliographers.

GILLIAM (Albert M.) Travels over the tablelands and Cordilleras of Mexico, 1843-44, including a description of California, 8vo. maps and plates ;

Philadelphia, 1846 0 6 0

cloth GONZALEZ DE MENDOZA (Juan) Historia de las cosas mas notables, ritos y costumbres del gran Reyno de la China . . con vn Itinerario. del nueuo Mundo [por Martin Ignacio], 12mo. vellum Anvers, Pedro Bellero, 1596 I I O For the first and other editions, see my Spanish Catalogue.

GORDON (Pat.) Geography Anatomized, or a compleat Geographical Grammar, 12mo. numerous coloured maps; in the original blue morocco gilt, a pretty binding

£ s. d.

1693 0 14 0

GOOS (Pieter) DE ZEE-ATLAS ofte Water-Wereld,
waerin vertoont werden alle de Zee-Kusten van
het bekende des Aerd-bodens.
roy. folio,
engraved frontispiece, and 40 folded sheets of maps
(Pascaerten); fine copy in vellum

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Amsteldam, 1669 4 4 0

Peter Goos was only the publisher, but his name is used to designate the various issues of these remarkable and important charts. They include nine maps of special interest to the American student, besides the general World-map. The two maps of Eastern Asia and the South Sea, are similarly interesting to the Australian collector, and show traces of their derivation from the charts of Tasman's voyage.

GRYNÆUS, with the Munster Map. NOVVS
ORBIS Regio || num ac insularum veteribus
incognitarum, || una cum tabula cosmographica,
& aliquot alijs consimilis || argumenti libellis,
quorum omnium catalogus || sequenti patebit
pagina. || His accessit copiosus rerum memora-
bilium, index. Small folio, with the large folding
world-map designed by Sebastian Munster; red
morocco extra by David, gilt edges

Basilea, apud Jo. Hervagium, mense || martio,
anno M.D.XXXII. (1532) 7 10 0
FIRST EDITION; being also the first Collection of
Voyages produced in Germany.

The collection of the various works of which the
Novus Orbis is composed, was made by Joannes Huttich.

Grynæus wrote the preface (or rather dedication) as a
friend of the publisher.

The book begins with Munsteri (Seb.) Typi cosmo-
graphici declaratio; then proceeds to reprint the
Itinerarium Portugallensium. This is followed by
Vesputii Quatuor Navigationes (from the Cosmogra-
phia); Emanuelis Epistolæ ad Leonem X, 1513 (first
printed at Rome); Vartomanni (Lud.) Navigatio (from
the Latin translation made by Madrignano); Broccardi
Terræ Sanctæ Descriptio (from the edition printed at
Venice in 1519); Marcus Paulus de regionibus Orien-
talibus (from the text printed, as is thought, by
Gerard Leeuw); Haithon de Tartaris (from the edition
printed at Hagenau in 1529); Michov de Sarmatia (it
had been printed at Cracow in 1517, at Augsburg in
1518); Paulus Jovius de Legatione Moschovitarum (it
had been printed at Rome in 1525); Petri Martyris de
Insulis nuper repertis decas quarta (printed at Basel in
1521); and Stella de Borussiæ antiquitatibus (it had been
printed at Basel in 1518).

GRYNÆUS, with the Finæus Map. NOVVS ORBIS Regionvm ac Insvlarvm veteribus incognitarum. . . Small folio, with the large double heart-shaped Map designed by Oronce Finé for this edition; in a seventeenth-century French binding stamped with Fleur-de-Lys

£ s. d.

Paris. apud Galeotum a Prato, 1532 10 10 O the same, a very large and very fine copy in old calf, from the Sunderland library

Paris. apud Joannem Parvum, 1532 12 12 0 The famous cordiform map of Oronce Finé is seldom seen. It is one of the most curious and ingenious productions of early Chartography. Nordenskiöld says, "In a geographical point of view this map far surpasses that of the Basel edition, as well in its greater richness of names and topographical details, as in due attention being here paid to the latest geographical discoveries.”

There is no difference between the two issues except

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