BOEMUS, Johannes.

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Omnium Gentium Mores, Leges, et Ritus, ex multis clarissimis rerum scriptoribus, nuper collecti, & novissime recogniti. The earliest edition of Boemus's ethnographic compendium to include material on South East Asia and America. First published in 1520, Omnium gentium was the first and most extensive European work to collect and compare customs and traditions of civilizations across Europe, Africa, and Asia from antiquity onwards.The first addition to Boemus's text is De Moluccis insulis by Maximilianus Transylvanus, reprinted here from the rare first edition of 1532. This work provided European readers with the first printed account of Magellan's circumnavigation of the world. Based on the author's interviews with the survivors, it contains detailed information on the Moluccas and their geographical location. This edition also includes Jacob Ziegler's De regionibus septentrionalibus, first published in Strassburg in 1532, and reprinted in Boemus's work several times. The text describes the regions of northern Europe, including Greenland, Norway, Sweden, and Finland.Another edition of this work was printed in Venice in the same year.

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