<oai_dc:dc xmlns:oai_dc="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/ http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc.xsd"><dc:title>Americae pars quarta, sive, Insignis &amp; admiranda historia de reperta primùm Occidentali India à Christophoro Columbo anno MCCCCXCII</dc:title><dc:date>anno MDLXXXXIIII [1594]</dc:date><dc:language>lat</dc:language><dc: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.</dc:description><dc:description>Includes Urbain Chauveton's Latin translation of book 1 of Benzoni's Historia del Mondo Nuovo, with additional notes.</dc:description><dc:description>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."</dc:description><dc:description>Engraved t.p.</dc:description><dc:description>Signatures: 2):(⁴, ²2):(⁴, A-Q⁴ R⁶, ²A-E⁴ F⁶ (R6, ²F6 blank)</dc:description><dc:description>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 &amp; in aes incisa à Theodoro de Bry Leod' anno MDXCIIII. Scale not given.</dc:description></oai_dc:dc>