Item #41245 ARGONAUTICON AMERICANORUM; sive historiae periculorum Petri de Victoria ac sociorum ejus. Libri XV. Joannis BISSELIUS.
ARGONAUTICON AMERICANORUM; sive historiae periculorum Petri de Victoria ac sociorum ejus. Libri XV.

ARGONAUTICON AMERICANORUM; sive historiae periculorum Petri de Victoria ac sociorum ejus. Libri XV.

Monachii: Lucae Straubii, Johann Wagner, 1647. First Latin Edition. 12mo, Bound in old calf, all edges red, some minor soiling and foxing. With an engraved title-page (signed ""Wolfg. Kilian. 1647 fecit.)and map of America, derived from Ortelius. Woodcut vignette on the title-page. Sabin 9943; Alden & Landis 647/28 "This is in fact a novel;" Burden 272; Bell V137. Borba de Moraes I p. 108. Brunet I 955. JCB I 360. Medina 1094. cfLeclerc 67. Item #41245

Although generally described as an edited and expanded translation of Pedro Goveo de Victoria's Relación de su Naufragio.en la costa del Perú (1610), it is in fact an historical romance based on that account of the Spanish Jesuit's travels and perilous adventures in Peru, Bahamas, Antilles, and Panama, and his final arrival at the Jesuit mission in Lima in 1597 Bisselius (or Bissel) was a German writer born in Swabia. He joined the Jesuits and was a professor of rhetoric and philosophy. He had a reputation as a good poet and elegant prose writer.

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