I Costumi. Le Leggi� Et L� Vsanze Di Tutte Le Genti. Divisi In Tre Libri. Raccolte, qui insieme da molti Illustri Scrittori, per Giouanni Boemo Aubano

I Costumi. Le Leggi� Et L� Vsanze Di Tutte Le Genti. Divisi In Tre Libri. Raccolte, qui insieme da molti Illustri Scrittori, per Giouanni Boemo Aubano Alemano; Et tradoiti per Lucio Fauno in questa nostra lingua volgare. Aggiuntoui di nuouo il Quarto Libro, nelquale si narra i costumi, & l'usanze dell'Indie Occidentali, ouero Mondo Nouo; da M. Pre Gieronimo Giglio.
The earliest work on scientific anthropology
Author	Joannes Boemus
Publisher	In Venetia: Appresso Giacomo Cornetti, 1585
Edition
Weight	330 gram
CF	Sabin 6119; Leclerc 71; Palau 31246. This edition not in NCC, LOC, nor BM.
Keywords	ethnology, anthropology, New World, Conquest, Precolumbiana, Nuevo America, Peru, Hispaniola, Magellan Straits, Venezuela, Nicaragua, popaian, Quito, Chile, Cuba, Yucatan, Ethiopia, Egypt, Syria, Palestine, Poland, Lituania, Hungary, Boehmen, Tuscany, Spain, Portugal
Booknumber	20961
Category's	Old & Rare (16th Century) Travel & Geography (Africa) Travel & Geography (Middle America) Travel & Geography (South America) Travel & Geography (Asia) Travel & Geography (Europe) Travel & Geography (Southwest Asia) Travel & Geography (Ethnology & Antropology) History & Archaeology (Africa) History & Archaeology (Middle America) History & Archaeology (South America) History & Archaeology (Asia) History & Archaeology (Europe) History & Archaeology (Pre-Columbian) History & Archaeology (16th Century) Travel & Geography (16th Century) History & Archaeology (Explorations) Culture History (Europe)
12-mo (9,8 x 15,7 cm). 4 books in one volume. 240 leaves (480 pp). Contemp. full vellum. Spine with 4 raised bands and hand-written ink-title. Title page with nice printer�s vignette. Collation A � 2G8 (coll. compl.) Hans B�hm , Johannes Boemus , (ca 1485, Aub � 1535, Rothenburg od Tauber) was a German priest in Ulm where he studied the Hebrew language before the Jews were expelled there in 1498. He is also known as the �Father of Scientific Ethnology� as he published 1520 the present work �Omnium gentium mores, leges, ritus� (Augsburg = Augustae Vindelicorum, Grimm & Wirsung). It became a very popular work and was frequently reprinted (but only in 1542 translated in Italian and French). It served as a model to both Sebastian Franck and Sebastian M�nster (See: ADB III, 30; NDB II, 403). The work is a compilation in which B�hm describes the customs, manners, habits and dress of the different peoples of the world that were known at that time: Europe, Asia, America and especially Africa. The translation / editing of this Italian edition is by Lucas Fono. The work is divided in four books; the title still states the original three books, but now supplemented with the fourth one on the peoples of the New World. According to the title, this 4th book was taken from the 1558-edition published in Venice by Gieronimo (Girolamo) Giglio (active between 1536 and 1560). According to Brunet however, this part already appeared for the first time in the Venice-edition of 1543. The first book treats the antique peoples as well as those of Africa (Mainly Ethiopia and Egypt). Book two gives an account of the Asian peoples, which means mainly the Middle East and Turkey ( Syria, Palestine, Parthia, Persia and Scytia, Tartary and Turkey). Book three, the most extensive one (196 pages), is devoted to the European peoples. Finally, book four gives an overview of the peoples of Indie, by which the New World is meant ( Hispaniola, Florida, Cuba, Iucatan till Nicaragua, Peru and even the Strait of Magellan is mentioned as such). With index and several woodcut-initials. Old ink notes on title page and end fly-leaf. Slightly soiled, but a very good copy, well-bound.
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