Le relationi vniversali
By: di Giovanni Botero benese, diuise 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 figure, & due copiosissime tauole. Inoltre vi s'aggiunge nell'vltimo vn breue raconto di mostri, & vsanze di quelle Indie, con le sue figure al naturale, d'Alessandro de Vecchi
Contributors: Vecchi, Alessandro de', fl. 1602-1630; Porro, Girolamo, 1520-1604; Burgkmair, Hans, 1473-1531
Edition: Nuouamente ristampate, & ricorrette.
Publisher: Appresso Alessandro Vecchi
Published: 1617
Place of publication: In Venetia
Language: ita
Subjects: Early works to 1800; Early accounts to 1600; Geography
Other titles: Relationi universali di Giovanni Botero benese
Notes: First published Rome, 1591-1592. See Sabin.

Pts. 2-[7] and the addendum to pt. 4 have special t.-p.'s. Pagination, pt. 1: [32], 208, 71, [1] p. (the last blank); pt. 2: [20], 131, [1] p. (the last blank); pt. 3: 156, [24] p.; pt. 4: 68 p.; pt. 4, addendum: [72] p.; pt. 5: 56 p.; pt. 6: [8], 52 p.; pt. [7]: 22, [2] p. (the last 2 blank).

Pts. 5 and [7] dated 1617.

Some of the engraved maps are signed: Porro.

Addendum to pt. 4 comprises 32 mostly full-page woodcuts. Fifteen of them depict monsters. The remainder depict natives of India, Africa and Arabia and have been printed from pieces of a large block of 1508 by Hans Burgkmair, or from pieces of a copy of it. See W. Oakeshott, Some woodcuts by Hans Burgkmair.

Signatures: a-bp8s A-Rp8s Sp4s, p2sap10s A-Gp8s Hp10s, p3sA-Ip8s Kp6s Lp4s, p4s[dagger]p8s A-Cp8s Dp10s, p5sA-Dp8s, p6sap4s A-Cp8s Dp4s, p7s[dagger]p4s A-Cp8s Dp2s, p8sAp8s Bp4s.

Includes indexes.

Sabin 6806

Binding: later limp vellum in a single vol. Author in gilt on red spine label.

On front pastedown is photocopy armorial bookplate, perhaps for de Maupas of Paris (Rietveld). T.p. signed at either side of device by Giulio Stanga.