The rarities of the world : containing rules and observations touching the beginning of kingdoms and common-wealths, the division of the ages, and the memorable things that happened in them, why men lived longer in those days than in these present times : also the opinion of the great emperours, and Egyptians, touching the life of man, and the strange things that have befallen kings and princes : with excellent discourses of creatures bred in the sea, to the likenesse of man, and others on earth / first written in Spanish by Don Petrus Messie ; afterward translated into French ; and now into English, by J.B. ...

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mexía, Pedro, 1496?-1552?

Contributor:

J. B. (Joshua Baildon)

Series:

Early English books online

Standardized Title:

Silva de varia lección. English

Language:

English

French, Middle (ca. 1300-1600)

Spanish

Physical Description:

1 online resource (8 unnumbered pages, 134 pages, 1 unnumbered page)

Other Title:

Wonders of the world, or, rarities since the creation.

Place of Publication:

London : Printed by B.A., 1651 ; London : Printed by Bernard Alsop ..., 1650.

System Details:

text file

Notes:

Translation of author's Silva de varia leción.

Running title: The wonders of the world, or, rarities since the creation.

Translator's dedication signed: Joshua Baildon.

Second imprint from colophon.

Reproduction of original in the Harvard University Library.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 1639:20) s1999 miun s

Cited in:

Wing M1956

OCLC:

18474129

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.