1627 Respublica Travel Voyages Elzevier Brazil Islam Persia 28v 1-of-a-kind SET

1627 Respublica Travel Voyages Elzevier Brazil Islam Persia 28v 1-of-a-kind SET

The famed publisher Elzevier published a series of travel guides under the title ‘Respublica’. This work is a collection of various authors on European countries focusing on geography and historical significance – one of the earliest travel guides.

This incredible set is certainly one of the rarest and most unique offerings of ‘Respublica’. Often, these works are sold as small, individual works; however, this lot features 28 separate, uniformly-bound volumes from Elzevier and the extended Elzevier family of printers.

The volumes:

• Holy Roman Empire | Imperial Law in Germany
  • “Tractatus de constitutione Imperii Romano-Germanici”; Jacob Lampadius; Lugduni: Ex officinâ Ioannis Maire, 1634.
• Greece
  • “Vbbonis Emmii Respublicae graecorum”; Ubbo Emmius; 1632. – 2 volumes
• Belgium | Hannonia, Namur; Luxembourg; Wallonia & Netherlands
  • “Respublica Lutzenburgensis, Hannoniae, et Namurcensis”; Jean Bertels; Amsterdami: Guiljelmum Blaeu, 1635.
• Holy Land | Hebrews, history of the Jews
  • “Bonaventura Cornelius Bertramus De republica Ebraeorum”; Bonaventure Bertram; Lugduni Batavorum: Maire, 1651.
• Russia | Moscow, Tartary
  • “Russia seu Moscovia itemque Tartaria”; Marcus Zuerius Boxhorn; 1630.
• Japan
  • “Descriptio regni Iaponiae”; Bernardus Varenius; 1649.
• Turkey | Ottoman Empire
  • “Turcici imperii status”; Joannes de Laet; 1630.
• Venice | Medici House; Venetian government in Florence
  • “Florentini dialogi de repvb. Venetorvm”; Donato Giannotti; 1631.
    • 7 engravings
  • Rome
    • “Respublica Romana”; Peter Schriver; 1629.
  • France | Gaul
    • “Gallia sive de Francorum regis”; 1629.
  • Constantinople | Byzantine Empire
    • “De Constantino Poleos topographia”; Pierre Gilles, 1632.
  • China | Jesuit missions – Chinese culture; Shanxi; Great Wall
    • “Regni Chinensis descriptio”; Nicolas Trigault & Matteo Ricci; 1639.
      • 2 engravings (1 double-sided leaf)
    • Savoy | feudal France and Italy
      • “Sabaudiæ respublica et historia”; Lambert van der Burch; 1634.
    • India | Mogul Empire
      • “De Imperio Magni Mogolis, sive India”; Johannes de Laet; 1631.
        • 1 engraving
      • Hispania | Spanish & Portuguese in Brazil, Puerto Rico, America
        • “Hispania sive de regis Hispaniae”; Johannes de Laet; 1629.
      • Italy | Kingdom of Naples; House of Sforza; Genoa
        • “De Principatibus Italia”; Thomas Segeth & Joannes de Laet; 1631.
      • Scandinavia | Norway, Denmark, Iceland; Vikings; Norse history
        • “De Regno Daniae et Norwegiae”; Stephen Hansen Stephanius; 1629.
      • Scotland & Ireland |
        • “Respublica, sive Status Regni Scotiae et Hiberniae”; Joannes de Laet; 1627.
      • Arabia | Syria; Damascus; Islam struggles against Christianity; Moors; Turks
        • “Arabia seu Arabum vicinarumque gentium Orientalium”; Gabriel Sionita; Amsterdam: Blaeu, 1635.
      • Persia | Islam history; Baghdad & Mecca
        • “Persia, seu regni Persici status”; Joannes de Laet; 1633.
          • 8 engravings
        • Switzerland | earliest published description of Alps
          • “Helvetiorum Respublica”; Simmler, Guillimannus, Myconius, l’Hermite; 1627.
        • Bosporus | Strait of Istanbul; Byzantine Empire; Constantinople
          • “Petri Gyllii De Bosporo Thracio”; Pierre Gilles; 1632.
        • Belgium | Holland, Netherlands, Friesland
          • “Belgii confederati Respublica”; Joannes de Laet; 1630.
        • Moscow | Russia
          • “Respublica Moscoviae et urbes”; Marcus Zuerius Boxhorn; Lugduni Batav.: Maire, 1630.
        • Sweden | Scandinavia and Swedish politics
          • “Svecia, siue de Suecorum Regis”; Henrik Soter & Anders Bure; 1631.
        • Raetia | Three Leagues in Switzerland; Rome; Medieval and Renaissance Leagues in Europe
          • “Rhetia : vbi eius versus situs”; Frotunat Sprecher; 1633.
        • Valais, Swizterland | description of the Alps
          • “Vallesiae et Alpium description”; Josias Simler; 1633.

Item number: #27176

Price: $7500

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Respublica…

Lugd. Bat.: Ex Officina Elzeviriana, 1627-51. 1^st editions

Details:

• Collation: Complete with all pages – 28 volumes
  • Each volume separately paged
• References: Willems 278
• Language: Latin
• Binding: Leather; tight and secure
• Size: ~4.25in X 2.5in (11cm x 6cm)
• ABSOLUTELY INCREDIBE collection and likely the only such complete and uniform example in existence.

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