Signatures: [*]¹ (?)² (?)(?)¹ **² A-G² N² [+]¹ I-M² H² O-Z² Aa-Cc² a-g² h¹. Hand colored illustrations., Text on versos of most maps., and Title-page and maps hand-colored; inlaid.
Errata on p. [1] at end., Made-up volume bound in 2 v. with groups r, s and t as per Griffith 372 (on thin paper; half-title (A2) of group r, on thick paper, bound in at front of 2:2), groups u (on thin paper) and v (on thick paper; quire C² on thin paper) as per Griffith 514, and groups s and u (on thick paper) as per Griffith 515., Signatures: A⁴ [superscript chi]B⁴ B-I⁴ K²(-K2) [superscript chi]K²(-K1) ²K2(K1+[superscript chi]A²), ²G-I⁴ ³[superscript chi]K²(-K1), ³B-C⁴ D² *F²(-*F2) F-K⁴, ⁴A-L⁴, ⁵A⁴ B⁴(-B4), ⁶B-2H⁴ [²[superscript chi]K1 signed K2]., The sheets of this edition were reissued, possibly in 1739, in a number of made-up copies in thick paper which include, in varying combinations, other separately published pieces by Pope up to 1738, (see Griffith, R.H. Pope, 514)., Title page in red and black., and With a half-title.
Publisher:
Printed by J. Wright, for Lawton Gilliver at Homer's Head in Fleetstreet,
Benzoni, Girolamo, b. 1519. Historia del Mondo Nuovo. Book 3. Latin. 1596 Bry, Theodor de, 1528-1598
Published / Created:
1596
Call Number:
E159 +B79 6-9
Image Count:
2
Description:
First ed. Cf. Church. Cat. of books relating to ... America, 158., Novae Novi Orbis historiae, liber 3 (by G. Benzoni, tr. and annotated by Urbain Chauveton)--Brevis insvlarvm quae Canariae appellantvr ... descriptio.--De Gallorvm expeditione in Floridam ... 1565 (including the petition on behalf of the families of those massacred there by the Spanish in 1565, repeated from America. pt. 2), The t.p., with a new engr. title on a slip mounted over the original text, is repeated preceding the plates., and With this is bound the editor's [America. pts. 7-9. Latin] Francoforti, 1599-1602. Imperfect: signature G6 (2nd count) blank, wanting.
Subject (Geographic):
America--Early accounts to 1600, America--History--To 1600, Canary Islands--Description and travel--Early works to 1800, Florida--History--Huguenot colony, 1562-1565, and Peru--History--Conquest, 1522-1548