P. [233]-[240] misnumbered 241, 241-242, 244-248.

Italic type.

Colophon: Estampado en Milan por maestro Iuan Antonio Castellon, y maestro Christoual Caron ... A los 18. de abril, de M.D.LVI. Años.

P.l. [1]r⁰, title within ornamental woodcut border; underneath, woodcut representing author measuring a globe, with legend "Con el tiempo girava"--p.l., [1]vu, diagram: centaur, with motto "In silentio et spe"--p.l. [2] Dedication to Goncalo Perez--p.l. [3]-[4]r⁰ Table of contents--p.l. [4]v⁰, list of 51 writers consuited by the author--Text, p. 1-271 (six. Hh numbered 241-248 instead of 233-240)--Latin epilogue, p. 271, by Petrus Rhodonus Perpinianensis, dated Medioiani XVI, cal maius, 1556 and referring to Girava's death as having occurred in February 1556--"Tabla de todas las cosas mas notables ..." 9 p. unnumbered--"Descuydos en la estampa", 2 p. unnumbered--Vignette: crescent within circular borders bearing legend "Post tenebras spero incem", on recto of last leaf, verso blank.

The folded "mappa mundi", reproduced on a much smaller scale from C. Vopell's map, is wanting in the present edition--cf. Nordeuskiöld's Facsimile-atlas, pl. 45.

Description of "India e ̀Mvevo mvndo": p. 186-242.

A 2nd edition was published in Venice, 1570, under title: La cosmographia, y geographia del s. Hieronimo Girava Tarragones. En la qual se contiene la Descripcion de todo el mundo, y de sus partes, y particularmente de las Xndias, y Tierra nueva. Islas de España, y de las otros partes del mundo; con la nanegacion, longitud, latitud, grandeza, y circuito de todas ellas ...--cf. Medina, Bibl. hisp. amer., v. 1.

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