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De Orbe Novo Petri Martyris Anglerii Mediolanensis, protonotarij : & Caroli quinti Senatoris decades octo, diligenti temporum obseruatione, & vtilissimis annotationibus illustratæ, suóque nitori restitutæ, labore & industria Richardi Haklvyti Oxoniensis Angli. Additus est in vsum lectoris accuratus totius operis index.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Dechert Collection IC5 An447 530d 1587
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Anghiera, Pietro Martire d', 1457-1526.
- Standardized Title:
- De orbe novo
- Language:
- Latin
- Subjects (All):
- America--Discovery and exploration.
- America.
- Discoveries in geography.
- West Indies--History.
- West Indies.
- History.
- Latin America--Description and travel.
- Latin America.
- America--Early accounts to 1600.
- Penn Provenance:
- Dechert, Robert (donor)
- Physical Description:
- 16 unnumbered pages, 605, that is, 595 pages, 24 unnumbered pages : 1 folded map ; 18 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Parisiis : Apud Guillelmum Auvray, via D. Ioannis Bellouacensis, sub insigni Bellerophontis coronati, 1587.
- Notes:
- Signatures: a⁸, A-Rr⁸.
- "This edition and that of 1530 are the only complete editions of the Decades in the original." Mansell.
- Map inserted is a facsimile.
- Printer's device on the title page.
- Edited by Richard Hakluyt.
- Hakluyt's dedicatory epistle to Walter Raleigh is dated Paris, 22 Feb. 1587. In it he states that the he used the complete Complutum (1530) edition as the basis of his own, with corrections, the addition of notes and an index as well as a map. (See leaf ã3v). In this copy the map is present in facsimile.
- Numerous errors in paging.
- Local Notes:
- The errors in our copy are not identical with those listed in LC or Church. The signings are ok.
- RBC // (London, 1812).
- The same owner's mark on title, A1r, Qq4r.
- The map is scarce and frequently wanting. Device on title.
- Cited in:
- Church, 133:
- JCB I, 370:
- Declerc, 26:
- Medina, 310:
- Sabin, 1552:
- Wagner, Spanish Southwest I, p. 159:
- Winsor III, p . 41.
- Renouard, Imprimeurs & libraires parisiens I, no. 623
- Palau, 12596
- STC French
- OCLC:
- 52064688
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