Elogio di Amerigo Vespucci che riportò il premio dalla nobile Accademia Etrusca di Cortona. Nel dì 15 Ottobre dell' anno 1788. Con una dissertazione giustificativa di questo celebre navigatore del lP. Stanislao Canovai delle scuole pie.
Firenze: Presso Giovacchino Pagani, 1798. frontis, 196 pp. 12mo. Quarter morocco over marbled boards, 4 raised bands. Quarta edizione. Fourth edition. A good copy, a few worm holes at spine ends, boards worn, endpapers remounted, hinges started, scribbles on paste downs, initial blind stamp to title page, else contents very good. Palau 42410. Sabin 10704n. Borba de Moraes I, 128. Leclerc (1867) 263. Leclerc (1887) 102. Bandini / Fumagalli: Vespucci 122. Item #37289
Canovai, in what was a new theory, argued that Vespucci landed on the American continent and discovered Brazil before Cabral. Bartolozzi and Napione attacked his theory, expounded in this work, leading to renewed research on the exploration of the Americas and the issuance of a number editions of Canovai's work, this being the fourth and much enlarged (Florence 1788; Cortona 1789; Modena, 1790). "A classic on Vespucci and searched for," Borba de Moraes.
Price: $250.00