[Maritime history] Morisot, C.B. de. Orbis maritimi sive Rerum in mari et littoribus gestarum generalis historia:
In qua inventiones navium, earundem partes, armamenta, instructiones classium, navigationes, praelia maritima, arma, stratagemata, tropheae, triumphi, naumachiae (...). Opus unicâ Centuriâ contentum, quae in duos libros divisa & partita est. Dijon, P. Palliot, 1643, 2 parts in 1 vol., (24),725,(19)p., engr. allegorical title-page, 1 double-p. fold. plate, 1 full-p. ill., 23 almost half-p. maps, 11 half-p. ills. of ships, 9 ills. depicting coins, contemp. or sl. later half sheepskin, ribbed spine w. mor letterpiece, folio. More or less foxed/ browned throughout. With library stamp "Carthusiae Villenovae" on title-p. Lower joint splitting. Borba de Moraes II, p. 597-8 ( ("The map of Brazil is most curious"); Sabin 50723. Interesting encyclopaedic work on maritime affairs, describing a.o. early voyages of De Veer, Raleigh, Le Moine, Herriot and Magellan.