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The new found vvorlde, or Antarctike, : wherein is contained wõderful and strange things, as well of humaine creatures, as beastes, fishes, and serpents, trées, plants, mines of golde and siluer : garnished with many learned aucthorities / trauailed and written in the French tong, by that excellent learned man, Master Ardrevve Thevet. And now newly translated into Englishe, vvherein is reformed the errours of the auncient cosmographers.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Thevet, André, 1502-1590.
- Standardized Title:
- Singularitez de la France Antarctique. English
- Language:
- English
- French, Middle (ca. 1300-1600)
- Subjects (All):
- Indians.
- America.
- America--Description and travel--Early works to 1800.
- America--Discovery and exploration.
- Discoveries in geography.
- Africa--Description and travel.
- Africa.
- Penn Provenance:
- Dechert, Robert (donor)
- Physical Description:
- 8 unnumbered leaves, 138 leaves, 2 unnumbered leaves ; 18 cm (4to)
- Place of Publication:
- Imprinted at London, : by Henrie Bynneman, for Thomas Hacket. And are to be sold at his shop in Poules Churchyard at the signe of the key., 1568.
- Notes:
- Translation, attributed to Thomas Hacket, of: Les singularitez de la France Antarctique.
- Colophon: Imprinted at London, in Knight-rider strete, by Henry Bynneman, for Thomas Hacket 1568.
- Title within ornamental border; Dedicatory epistle to Sir Henrie Sidney (signed Thomas Hacket) in italics, text in Gothic type. This copy lacks the portrait of the author at the end of the dedicatory epistle, mentioned in the Carter Brown catalogue. cf. also Winsor, Narrative and critical history of America, 1885, v.4, p. 31.
- Signatures: * A B-S T (T4 verso blank).
- Leaves 39, 43, 67, 69, 103, 120 are numbered 32, 36, 69, 77, 74, 102 respectively.
- Cited in:
- STC (2nd ed.) 23950
- ESTC
- JCB Lib. cat., pre-1675, 1:238.
- Alden, J.E. European Americana, 568/32.
- Church, no. 113
- Winsor 4, 31
- Sabin, 95338
- OCLC:
- 62187525
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