De le meravegliose cose del mondo (Book of the marvels of the world, or Description of the world, or Il milione, or The travels of Marco Polo).

Marco POLO (Author)

Giovanni Battista Sessa (Printer)

Origin: Venice, XV c.
Biblioteca del Palacio Real de Madrid. Coedited with Patrimonio Nacional.

Facsimile sheet:

Signature:
Classification:

ISBN 10:
ISBN 13:
Format:
Size:
Leaves:
Pages:
Language:
Original Dating:
Date facsimile edition:
Print:
Binding:
Main theme:
Components:

Comments:

RB I-174
Facsimile. Incunabula. Collection of Incunabula and Old Books.
84-87988-25-3
978-84-87988-25-7
8º
11,5 x 18 cm.
86+2 crd.
172+4 crd.
Italian.
13th June 1496.
15th May 1995.
3000+80+50+30
Parchment on wooden board.
Travels.
Presentation dust jacket cloth lined with gold engraved leather spine containing facsimile.
Numbered by notary and signed by the printer-publisher.
Specially made laid paper.
Optional: Study in Spanish carried out by María Luisa López Vidriero (Director of the Royal Palace Library of Madrid). Included in Bibliofilia Antigua III.
Gothic and Romanic lettering. Xylographic initials.

Download Catalog PDF

De le meravegliose cose del mondo. Estudio y traducción de la edición véneta de 1496.

María Luisa LÓPEZ VIDRIERO (Author)

Study sheet:

Classification:


ISBN 10:
ISBN 13:
Size:

Pages:
Languagee:
Edition date :
Binding:
Main theme:

Studies and monographs. Bibliofilia Antigua. Collection of Incunabula and Old Books.

84-87988-45-8

978-84-87988-45-5

14 x 23 cm.

166

Spanish

1997

Hard cover.

Literature.

Synopsis:

Italian Incunabula printed in Venice, by the printer and bookseller Giovanni Battista Sessa, 13th  June 1496, which offers the first Italian edition of the famous voyage of Marco Polo.

The Biblioteca del Palacio Real de Madrid zealously guards this incunabula of enormous worth, originating from the Library of the Count of Gondomar. It has the great transcendence due to the fact it is the only known copy in Spain.

IBIC Rating:

AFH Prints & printmaking
AFJ Other graphic art forms
DNF Literary essays
DSBB Literary studies: classical, early & medieval
HBG General & world history
HBJD European history
HBJF Asian history
HBLC Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500
HBLC1 Medieval history
HBTP Historical geography
RGR Geographical discovery & exploration
WCS Antiques & collectables: books, manuscripts, ephemera & printed matter
WTLC Classic travel writing
WTLP Expeditions

1D Europe
1DST Italy
1F Asia
2ADS Spanish
3H c 1000 CE to c 1500