RARE FIRST DUTCH TRANSLATION - INCLUDING THE ADDITION ON THE SPANISH POSSESSIONS IN AMERICA

ZEILLER, M.

Monarchia Hispanica ofte een reys-beschryvinge, aller koninckrijken, vorstendommen, landen ende Steden, door de gantsche werelt verspreyt,

Amsterdam, G.J. Valckenier, 1659.

12mo. In contemporary vellum with yapp edges. Title in contemporary hand to spine and small paper-label pasted on to top of spine indicating the inventory number in an estate-library. Previous owner's name to title-page. Light wear to extremities, spine miscoloured. Internally fine. (24 (Including the engraved half-title/frontispiece)), 660, (62) pp. + 23 engraved folded plates (including the map).

The rare Dutch translation of "Itinerarium Hispaniae" (Ulm, 1637), Zeiller's account of Spain and Portugal. This present Dutch translation has been extended with "(…) een korte Reys-beschryvinghe aller Landen, buyten Spanjen geleegen, en onder deese groote Monarchie behoorende". This part of the book (pp. 492-641) deals with the Spanish possessions in America (not present in the original German or Latin translation that appeared with the same publisher in 1656).

Order-nr.: 60676