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 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.

Format:

Microformat

Author/Creator:

Anghiera, Pietro Martire d', 1457-1526.

Contributor:

Eden, Richard, 1521?-1576.

Series:

Early English books, 1475-1640 ; 166:1.

Standardized Title:

De orbe novo. Decade 1-3. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

America--Early accounts to 1600.

Local Subjects:

America--Early accounts to 1600.

Physical Description:

24 unnumbered leaves, 309 leaves, 1 unnumbered leaf, 310-361 leaves, 13 unnumbered leaves : illustrations (woodcut)

35 mm

monochrome

service copy

positive

Other Title:

De orbe novo. Decade 1-3.

Place of Publication:

Londini : In ædibus Guilhelmi Powell [for Edwarde Sutton], Anno. 1555.

Notes:

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 Lumbard streete at the signe of the Cradle by [i.e. for] Edwarde Sutton. ..

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.

Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1943. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (Early English books, 1475-1640; 166:01). s1943 miun a

Cited in:

STC (2nd ed.) 647.

OCLC:

187600037