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Record Nr.

UNISA996384797303316

Autore

Anghiera Pietro Martire d' <1457-1526.>

Titolo

The decades of the newe worlde or west India [[electronic resource] ] : 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 perteynyng to the inheritaunce of the kinges of Spayne. ... Wrytten in the Latine tounge by Peter Martyr of Angleria, and translated into Englysshe by Rycharde Eden

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Londini, : In ædibus Guilhelmi Powell [for Robert Toy], Anno. 1555

Descrizione fisica

[24], 309, [1], 310-361, [13] leaves : ill. (woodcut)

Altri autori (Persone)

EdenRichard <1521?-1576.>

Soggetti

America Early accounts to 1600

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

A translation of decades 1-3 of "De orbe novo", with additions from numerous other sources edited by Eden.

Colophon reads: Imprynted at London in Paules Churchyarde at the signe of the Bell by [i.e. for] Roberte Toy. ..

With 13 final contents leaves.

The inserted leaf after 309 is a letter from the Emperor of Russia to Edward VI.

One of four variants with different publishers' names in the colophon.

Reproduction of the original in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0113