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Americae pars quarta, sive, Insignis & admiranda historia de reperta primùm Occidentali India à Christophoro Columbo anno MCCCCXCII
Uniform Title
America. pars 4. Latin
Title
Americae pars quarta, sive, Insignis & admiranda historia de reperta primùm Occidentali India à Christophoro Columbo anno MCCCCXCII / scripta ab Hieronymo Bezono Mediolanense, qui istic an[n]is XIIII versatus, dilige[n]ter omnia observavit ; 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, cive Francofurtensi anno MDXCIIII ; ad investis Rudolph. Rom. Imperator ; cum privilegio S.C. Maiestat.
Published
Impressum Francofurti ad Moenum : Typis Ioannis Feyrabend : Impensis Theodori de Bry, anno MDLXXXXIIII [1594]
Physical Description
[8], 145, [3] p., [1], XXIIII, [1] leaves, [1] folded leaf of plates : ill., map ; 36 cm (fol.)
Local Notes
BEIN Taylor 192 4: Map: Occidentalis Americae partis ... (32 x 43 cm, on sheet 34 x 45 cm, folded to 32 x 19 cm) bound following leaf 2):(4 [i.e. p. [8], first count]. Bookplate of Paul Methuen. No. 1 of 3 titles bound together.
Notes
Includes Urbain Chauveton's Latin translation of book 1 of Benzoni's Historia del Mondo Nuovo, with additional notes.
First ed., 2nd issue. Cf. Church. The plates, however, in the state of the first issue, i.e. without the Arabic figures; catchword on plate XI is "Inpe."
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Signatures: 2):(⁴, ²2):(⁴, A-Q⁴ R⁶, ²A-E⁴ F⁶ (R6, ²F6 blank)
Map: Occidentalis Americae partis, vel earum regionium quas Christophorus Columbus primu[m] detexit ... praesertim verò ex Hieronyni Benzoni (qui totis XIIII annis eas provincias diligenter perlustravit) historia, conflata & in aes incisa à Theodoro de Bry Leod' anno MDXCIIII. Scale not given.
Variant and related titles
Americae pars qvarta
Insignis & admiranda historia
Insignis et admiranda historia
Format
Books
Language
Latin
Added to Catalog
June 01, 2002
References
Church, E.D. Catalogue of books relating to the discovery and early history of North and South America, 154
Burden, P.D. Mapping of North America, 83
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Maps in books.
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