MORISOT, Claude Bathélémy.- ORBIS | MARITIMI | SIVE | RERVM IN MARI | ET LITTORIBVS | GESTARVM GENER

MORISOT, Claude Bathélémy.- ORBIS | MARITIMI | SIVE | RERVM IN MARI | ET LITTORIBVS | GESTARVM GENERALIS HISTORIA: | IN QVA | Inuentiones nauium, earumdem partes, armamenta. Instructiones | Classium, nauigationes, prælia maritima, arma, stratagemata, | trophæa, triumphi, naumachiiæ...- Divione: Apud Petrvm Palliot Typographum Regis, M. DC. XLIII. [1643].- [22], 725, [23] p.: il.; 35 cm.- E, Claude Bathélémy Morisot (1592-1661), French intellectual, jurist and writer, born in Dijon. First and only edition of the author's most famous work, considered by many to be the first encyclopedia of naval and maritime history. The edition consists of a typographed title page, followed by an engraved frontispiece; a leaf with a dedication to Pierre Séguir (1588-1672), chancellor of France since 1635; three leaves with a Latin preface; a leaf with the text “Typographus lectoris”; five leaves with the “Elencus capitum” (in the end, the “Privilege du Roi”). The text occupies 725 pages, with the errata on the back of the final page; 11 pages follow with the “Index rerum et verborum”. On the verso of the final leaf, a colophon with the date of M. DC. XLIII. The illustrations, all intaglio (burin and etching), appear on the aforementioned frontispiece, a full-page engraving (p. 66), nine engravings of coins and medals, 23 maps (1/2 page), 11 engravings of ships (1/2 page) and a large folding engraving (p. 194/195), representing a show of naval battle in a Roman amphitheater (“Naumachiae id est navalis pugnae...”). Copy slightly cropped and some browning, sometimes strong, as in most known copies. Contemporary binding, full parchment. Sabin, 50723. Borba de Moraes, 597/598.