BOTERO Giovanni- Relatie universale. Abo news common: Ian Boter Benesius 1613

Common Relaties. Abo noviny pospolite: by Ian Boter Benesius. Decomposed into five Parts [...] from the Italian into the Polish language [...] faithfully translated, and now corrected again [...] by a certain monk from the Bernardines.

[Part] 1. closes Cosmographia to iest opisanie czterech czesci świata [...]; Part Two, closes Hydrographia to jest opisanie Morza [...]; Part Three, closes Monarchologia [....]; Part Four, Speaks of the people of various sects/ abo faiths [...]; Part Five, Treats of the superstitiae/ in which the nations of the New World were before [...].

Botero, Giovanni (1540-1617)
Łęczycki, Paweł (1572-1642). Translation.

Giovanni Botero - Italian Jesuit, historian and political writer of the Counter-Reformation era. Author of Universal Geography, which included the first statistical description of Poland (Polish translation Relatiae powszechne albo nowiny pospolite).

On verso of kk. Tit. woodcut:

part. 1: Olesnicki; parts 2-3: Lubomirskis; part 4: Tylicki ; part 5: Mniszków

Year of publication: Cracow 1613, in the Printing House of Mikolaj Lob.

s. [20],ch.1 [11], 320;ch.2 [12], 118, [1];ch.3 [8], 212; ch.4 [8], 240, [8]; ch.5 [8], 99, [4].

Format: 21.5 x 16.5 cm

Binding: later half leather, gilt/embossed titling on spine

Condition: binding with minor rubbing/scuffing, 18 k. with filler [detrimental to single words/sentences - applies to first and last pages], 8 k. with notes [not detrimental to text], dry traces of flooding on part of pages [not detrimental to text], 40 k. with minor loss [corner, not detrimental to text], soiling.

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