LOT 39 Nicolay, Nicolas de, Seigneur d'Arfeville [and Alexander Lyndsay or Lindsay]
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Nicolay, Nicolas de, Seigneur d'Arfeville [and Alexander Lyndsay or Lindsay] La Navigation du Roy d'Ecosse Jacques Cinquiesme du Nom, autour de son Royaume, & Isles Hebrides & Orchades, soubz la conduicte d'Alexandre Lyndsay excellent Pilote Escossois, recueille & redigee... par Nicolay d'Arfeville. Paris: Gilles Beys, 1583. First edition, 4to, (224 x 147mm.), ff. [vi], 37, fine large folding map (383x288mm. to plate-mark), with ships, compass rose, and a sea monster, also with a folding scale, and 6 large woodcuts in the text (compass rose, prevailing winds, tides and currents, hazards, aids to direction-finding), inscription on endpaper noting the gift of Claudius Phalempin to Maximilian Noircarmius, contemporary vellum, blue morocco slipcase, the map with 4 small modern slips of paper stuck to the margin captioned "Plate VI", "Nicolay D'Arfeville 1583"; "Collection of D. Alan Stevenson Esq.", "J.B. & S.E.", a few light spots, vellum slightly soiled and with small repairs to spine, lacks ties
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