Americae pars quarta, sive, Insignis & admiranda historia de reperta primùm Occidentali India à Christophoro Columbo anno MCCCCXCII

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Description

Title
Americae pars quarta, sive, Insignis & admiranda historia de reperta primùm Occidentali India à Christophoro Columbo anno MCCCCXCII
Alternative Title
America. pars 4. Latin
Americae pars qvarta
Insignis & admiranda historia
Insignis et admiranda historia
Contributor
Benzoni, Girolamo, 1519-1572?
Chauveton, Urbain, -approximately 1616.
Feyerabend, Johann, 1550-1599, printer.
Bry, Theodor de, 1528-1598.
Published / Created
anno MDLXXXXIIII [1594]
Publication Place
Impressum Francofurti ad Moenum and Germany Frankfurt am Main
Publisher
Typis Ioannis Feyrabend : Impensis Theodori de Bry
Description
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.
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."
Engraved t.p.
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.
Extent
[8], 145, [3] p., [1], XXIIII, [1] leaves, [1] folded leaf of plates : 36 cm (fol.)
Extent of Digitization
This object has been partially digitized.
Language
Latin

Collection Information

Repository
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Call Number
Taylor 192 4-6

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre
Early accounts to 1600
Early works to 1800
Maps
Maps in books
Material
ill., map ;
Subject (Geographic)
America
Latin America
Subject (Topic)
Discovery and exploration
Spanish
History
Description and travel
Subjects
America > Early accounts to 1600
America > Discovery and exploration > Spanish > Early works to 1800
Latin America > History > To 1600
Latin America > Description and travel > Early works to 1800
America > Discovery and exploration > Maps > Early works to 1800
America > Maps > Early works to 1800
Latin America > Maps > Early works to 1800
Methuen, Paul, 1672-1757 > Bookplate

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Catalog Record
3303103
Object ID (OID)
2039617

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