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Americae pars quarta, sive, Insignis & admiranda historia de reperta primùm Occidentalis India à Christophoro Columbo anno M. CCCCXCII / scripta ab Hieronymo Bezono Mediolanense, qui istic an[n]is XIIII. versatus dilige[n]ter omnia obseruauit ; addita ad singula ferè capita, non contemnenda scholia, in quibus agitur de earum etiam gentium idololatria ; accessit praeterea illarum regionum tabula chorographica ; omnia elegantibus figuris in aes incisis expressa à Theodoro de Bry Leodiense, ciue Francofurtensi anno MDXCIIII.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Dechert Collection Folio E141 .B42165 1594b
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Benzoni, Girolamo, 1519-1572?, author.
- Standardized Title:
- Historia del Mondo Nuovo. Book 1. Latin
- Language:
- Italian
- Latin
- Subjects (All):
- America--Early accounts to 1600--Early works to 1800.
- America.
- Latin America--History--To 1600--Early works to 1800.
- Latin America.
- Latin America--Description and travel--Early works to 1800.
- Genre:
- Early works
- History
- Physical Description:
- [8], 145, [3] pages, [1], XXIIII leaves of plates, [1] folded leaf of plates : illustrations, folded map ; 36 cm (fol.)
- Other Title:
- Americae pars qvarta, sive, Insignis & admiranda historia de reperta primùm Occidentalis India à Christophoro Columbo anno M. CCCCXCII
- Americae pars quarta
- Americae pars qvarta
- Insignis & admiranda historia de reperta primùm Occidentalis India à Christophoro Columbo anno M. CCCCXCII
- Fingerprint:
- esid i-ni æ.næ mope (3) 1594 (R)
- Place of Publication:
- Impressum Francofurti ad Moenum : Typis Ioannis Feyrabend : Impensis Theodori de Bry, Anno MDLXXXXIIII [1594]
- Language Note:
- Latin translation of Urbain Chauveton (with additions by Theodore de Bry) of book 1 of: Historia del Mondo Nuovo.
- Notes:
- "First edition; second issue ... title to plates identically the same as the first in this volume; in all other respects identically the same as the first issue, except that all the plates have Arabic figures on the coppers; those of 2, 6, and the 6 of 16 being engraved in reverse. This copy has the two genuine blank leaves necessary to complete signatures R, and F (second series) ... In this issue the two title-pages, the first and that to the plates ... contain the words: | ... Ad | Invistis. Rudolphus II. Rom. Emperator. | Cum privilegio [not prevelegio] S.C. Maiestat.|"--Church.
- Imprint from colophon on leaf 2R5v which reads: Impressum Francofurti ad Moenum, typis Ioannis Feyrabend, impensis Theodori de Bry. Anno M. D. LXXXXIIII.
- Signatures: [superscript pi]2):(⁴ 2):(⁴ A-Q⁴ R⁶, ²A-²E⁴ ²F⁶.
- Leaves R6 and ²F6 are blanks.
- Engraved illustrated title leaves (leaves [superscript pi]2):(1r and ²A1r); engraved illustrations.
- Woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces.
- Printed marginalia.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center copy imperfect: folded map wanting; leaf ²F6 (blank) wanting.
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Robert Dechert Americana Book Fund.
- Dechert Collection copy purchased for the Penn Libraries in 2023 from Alessandro Borgato.
- Kislak Center copy has manuscript note on leaf H2v.
- Kislak Center copy: some leaves at end of volume mended at edges.
- Cited in:
- Church, E.D. Catalogue of books relating to the discovery and early history of North and South America, 154
- VD16 B 1751
- OCLC:
- 11426016
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