The first three English books on America, <?1511>-1550 A.D. / Being chiefly translations, compilations, &c., by Richard Eden, from the writings, maps, & c., of Pietro Martire, of Anghiera (1455-1526) ... Sebastian Münster, the cosmographer (1489-155) ... Sebastian Cabot, of Bristol (1474- 1557) ... with extracts, &c, from the works of other Spanish, Italian, and German writers of the time. Edited by Edward Arber ...

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Arber, Edward, 1836-1912, editor.

Contributor:

Eden, Richard, 1521?-1576, editor.

Anghiera, Pietro Martire d', 1457-1526.

Münster, Sebastian, 1489-1552.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Eden, Richard, 1521?-1576.

Eden, Richard.

Voyages and travels.

America--Early accounts to 1600.

America.

Physical Description:

xlviii, 408 pages ; 29 x 23 cm

Other Title:

Of the newe landes and of ye people founde ...

Place of Publication:

Birmingham : [Printed by Turnbull & Spears, Edinburgh], 1885 ; New York : Kraus Reprint, 1971.

Notes:

With reprints of original title-pages.

Half-title: (p. 1-2): "Richard Eden's contribution to our literature ...".

Preface contains an account of the earliest English voyages to America.

The third English book on America: The decades of the newe worlde or west India, conteynyng the nauigations and conquests of the Spanyardes, with the particular description of the Maste Ryche and large landes and Ilandes lately founde in the west Ocean perteynyng to the inheritance of the kinges of Spayne ... Wrytten in the Latine tounge by Peter Martyr of Angleria, and translated into Englische by Rycharde Eden. Londini, sedibus Guilhelmi Powell, Anno, 1555.

Index of personal names and names of places, chiefly outside Europe.

OCLC:

80202095