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Medina, Pedro de. Arte del navigare. Venetia: Appresso Tomaso Baglioni, 1609. 4to (20.5 cm, 8"). A⁴ b⁴ ²A⁸ B–Q⁸ R¹⁰; [7], [1 (blank)], 137, [1 (blank)] ff.; illus.
$8000.00

Arte de navegar

Also included is a woodcut map showing Europe, the Atlantic, and the New World.

• Palau 159680; Alden & Landis, European Americana, 609/77; Medina, BHA, 123. Old vellum; red leather, gilt-lettered spine label; some staining, and chipping to edges and label. Old, careful repairs to interior worming occasionally cost individual letters (but never sense) or a little loss to an illustration. Old rubber-stamps and red and black ownership label on title-page; inked notations on title-page and front pastedown. All edges speckled red.

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