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Historia Indiae Occidentalis : tomis duobus comprehensa : prior, res ab Hispanis in India Occidentali hactenus gestas, acerbum illorum in eas gentes dominatum, insignéque in Gallos ad Floridam insulam saeuitiae exemplum describit : alter verò, Brasiliae (quae & America dicitur) rerúmque in ea obseruatione dignarum a nobis penitus incognita descriptionem continet / Hieronymo Benzone Italo, & Ioanne Lerio Burgundo, testibus oculatis, autoribus ; ex eorum autem idiomate in Latinum sermonem Vrbani Calvetonis & G.M. studio conuersi: perpetuis notis, argumentis, figuris, indicibus, & locupleti memorabilium rerum accessione illustrati. ; addita est totius Indiæ Occidentalis, seu orbis illius noui breuis descriptio, quae maximam hanc mundi partem vno velus intuitu perlustrandam oculis subiicit.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Benzoni, Girolamo, 1519-1572?
- Standardized Title:
- Historia del Mondo Nuovo. Latin
- Language:
- Italian
- Latin
- Subjects (All):
- America--Discovery and exploration.
- America.
- Discoveries in geography.
- Latin America--History.
- Latin America.
- History.
- Canary Islands--Description and travel.
- Canary Islands.
- Penn Provenance:
- Dechert, Robert (donor)
- Physical Description:
- 32 unnumbered pages, 480 pages, 56 unnumbered pages, 223, 206-341 pages, 17 unnumbered pages, 1 folded leaf of plates : illustrations ; 17 cm (8vo)
- Place of Publication:
- [Geneva] : Excudebat Eustathius Vignon, M.D.LXXXVI. [1586]
- Notes:
- Translation of: Historia del Mondo Nuovo and 1st published in Latin, 1578, as: Novae Novi Orbis historiae.
- Historia nauigationis in Brasiliam ... / Jean de Lery: has special title page, separate paging and signatures.
- The printer was in Geneva.
- Errata statement at end.
- Includes index.
- "Brevis insularum quae Canariae appellantur ... descriptio:" p. 417-426. Also with "De Gallorum expeditione in Floridam ...:" p. 427-480, translated into Latin by Apollonius from the French account of this expedition by N. Le Challeux, published in Dieppe, 1566.
- Cited in:
- JCB Lib. cat., pre-1675, 1:307.
- Alden, J.E. European Americana, 586/1.
- Medina, J.T. Bib. hispano-americana, 299.
- Contains:
- Le Challeux, Nicolas, 16th century. Discours de l'histoire de la Floride. Latin.
- OCLC:
- 249345074
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