BOOK
Title:
The decades of the Newe Worlde or West India, conteynyng the nauigations and conquestes of the Spanyardes, with the particular description of the moste ryche and large landes and ilandes lately founde in the West Ocean: ... In the which the diligent reader may not only consyder what commoditie may hereby chaunce to the hole Christian world in tyme to come, but also learne many secreates touchynge the lande,the sea, and the starres
Alt. Title:
De orbe novo. Decade 1-4. English
Creators:
Anghiera, Pietro Martire d', 1457-1526 | Eden, Richard, 1521?-1576 | AlexanderVI, Pope, 1431-1503 | Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés, Gonzalo, 1478-1557 | Pigafetta, Antonio, ca. 1480/91-ca. 1534
Publication:
In ædibus Guilhelmi Powell, Londini, Anno 1555.
Notes:
An account of decade 1-4 of De orbe novo; however, the fourth decade is given as an extract, as in the Latin edition of Basel, 1533. Colophon: Imprynted at London in Paules Churchyarde at the signe of the Bell by Roberte Toy. The first English collection of voyages, including also contributions by or excerpts from Pope Alexander VI, Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés, Antonio Pigafetta, and many others, edited by Richard Eden. For complete contents see Arber. Cf. Arber, Edward. The first three English books on America, [? 1511]-1555 A.D. Birmingham, 1885. Leaves irregularly numbered. Extra leaf, signed iii. ii., inserted between l. 309 and 310. Title within woodcut border. Gothic type. Initials. Marginal notes.
Call #:
910 ED25
Extent:
[48] p., 361 leaves, 26 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
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