Lot 30 30 Lopes (Duarte & Pigafetta Filippo). Regnum Congo hoc est Vera Descriptio Regni Africani, Quod Tam Abincolis Quam Lusitanis Congus...., Frankfurt, 1598, dec. eng title, two uncoloured eng. folding maps (only) by De Bry of North-east Africa and South Africa, bound with Theodorum (Johannem & De Bry Johannem),Icones Quibus Ad Maiorem Lectoris Recreationem...., Frankfurt, 1598,thirteen eng. plts. with descriptive text in Latin below each image, new end papers, later dec. morocco gilt by W.Pratt, spine faded, slim 4to A full collation of this work calls for two maps but the two maps bound separately in this volume are usually conjoined to create one map. The volume therefore lacks the two sheet folding map of the ‘Kingdom of Congo’, with its inscription ‘Tabula Geogra-Regni Congo’. (1) £1500-2000
31 [Lozano, Pedro]. A True and Particular Relation of the Dreadful Earthquake which happen’d at Lima, the Capital of Peru, and the neighbouring Port of Callao, on the 28th of October, 1746... to which is added, A Description of Callao and Lima before their Destruction; and of the Kingdom of Peru in general, with its Inhabitants; setting forth their Manners, Customs, Religion, Government, Commerce, &c. Interspersed with Passages of Natural History and physiological Disquisitions; particularly an Enquiry into the Cause of Earthquakes..., 1st ed., printed for T. Osborne, 1748, four folding eng. maps, incl. frontis., and five folding eng. plts., 3pp. pubs. ads. at rear, some light foxing and toning, endpapers sometime renewed, sprinkled edges, contemp. calf, rubbed, rebacked preserving orig. leather label, corners showing, 8vo (1)
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