Le relationi vniversali
By: di Giovanni Botero Benese, divise in sette parti. Alle quali vi sono aggiunte nuouamente i Capitani dell'istesso auttore, con le Relationi di Spagna; del Stato della chiesa, & di Sauoia ... Con le sue figure in reme, & due ... tauole. In oltre vi s'aggiunge nell' vltimo un breue racconto di mostri, & vsanze di quelle Indie, con le sue figure al naturale d'Alessandro de Vecchi
Edition: Et in questa nostra quinta impressione ristampate, & ricorrette.
Publisher: Presso Alessandro Vecchi
Published: 1622
Place of publication: Venetia
Language: ita
Subjects: Geography; Early works to 1800; Monsters; Wood-engraving, German; Early accounts to 1600
Work titles: Relationi universali
Notes: Title vignettes, head- and tail-pieces, initials; text in italic type.

1st ed., Rome 1591.

Each part has special t.p. and separate paging.

Includes after pt. 4 the 1622 "Aggiunta alla qvarta parte dell'Indie ... Di monstri, & vsanze di quelle parti, di quei re con le sue figure al naturale. Raccolte novamente da Alessandro de Vecchi," 32 leaves. The full-page woodcuts include 15 monsters from an unidentified source; the other woodcuts depict natives of India, Africa and Arabia and seem to have been printed from pieces of a large block which was the work, or a copy of the work, of Hans Burgkmair. Cf. W. Oakeshott. Some woodcuts by Hanns Burgkmair printed as an appendix to the fourth part of Le relationi universali di Giovanni Botero, 1618. Oxford, 1916.

Printer's mark on t.-p.'s.
Table of contents: title: (Each pt. with separate paging. separate signatures and special t.-p.) pt. 1-4 are the same as in earlier editions.; title: pt. 5 [with no part-number on t.-p.]. I Capitani.; title: pt. 6 [in two sections separately signed & paged, each with special t.-p.]. Relationi di Spagna. Saggio dell'opera de'prencipi e capitani illvstri.; title: pt. 7. Aggivnta alla qvarta parte dell'Indie ... Raccolte novamenta de Alessandro de Vecchi.; title: Engraved maps; pt. 7 contains early woodcuts of monsters from an unidentified source, and cuts of natives of India, Arabia and Africa printed from pieces of large block after designs by Hans Burgkmair.; title: Cf. Walter Oakeshott, Some woodcuts by Hans Burgkmair printed as an appendix to the fourth part of Le Relationi vniversali di Giovanni Botero, 1618. Oxford, 1960.