List May 2017 a Classic of 16Th-Century Voyage Literature 1
LIST MAY 2017 A CLASSIC OF 16TH-CENTURY VOYAGE LITERATURE 1. BARROS, João de (1496-1570)-ULLOA, Alfonso de, transl. (d. 1570). L’Asia del S. Giovanni di Barros, Consigliere del Christianissimo Re di Portogallo… nella quale oltre le cose appartenenti alla militia, si ha piena cognitione di tutte le Città, Monti, & Fiumi delle parti Orientali, con la descrittione de’ paesi, & costumi di quei popoli. Nuova- mente di lingua Portoghese tradotta. Dal S. Alfonso Ulloa. Venice, Vincenzio Valgrisi, 1562. Two volumes in one, 4to (203x148 mm). (10), 200; (8, of which the last is a blank), 228 leaves. The second part opens with a separate title-page: Dell’Asia la seconda deca del S. Giovanni di Barros. Italic type with woodcut initials, printer’s device on both titles. Early 18th-century half calf, gilt spine with lettering-piece, panels covered with a nice colored paper, marbled edges (slightly worn and rubbed, corners and top of the spine damaged). At the last leaf verso is a long ownership’s note by a certain Leonida Antonio Falgidi from S. Polo Sabino (Rieti), dated November 24, 1706. First title-page soiled, some staining especially at the beginning and at the end of the volume, all in all a good copy. FIRST EDITION, second issue (the first is- sue bears the date 1561), of the first Italian version of Barros’ first and second ‘Decades’, in the only separately published translation of the sixteenth century. The first book is ded- icated by the translator Alfonso de Ulloa to Guglielmo Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua (the dedication is dated Venice, August 18, 1561); the second book opens with a dedication, dat- ed Venice, October 15, 1561, addressed by Ulloa to the Portuguese gentleman Duarte Gomez (cf.
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