First printed in Leiden, 1625 under title: Nieuwe wereldt ofte Beschrijvinghe van West-Indien.

Title page is fully engraved and framed within ornamental border.

Some copies have double maps and some have folded maps. In many copies there is a mix of Latin and Dutch titles in the cartouches of the maps. Some copies also contain "Maiores minoresqve insvlae. Hispaniola, Cvba Lucaiae et Caribes" in place of "De groote ende kleyne eylanden van West-Indien" as the title of the second map.

Includes various specimens of indigenous language vocabularies: Book 2, chapters XIII and XVII include a small list of vocabulary on p. 70 and p. 74, 2nd counts, in the Huron language as spoken in Hochelaga, which was the indigenous name for Montréal; and Book 5, chapter IX gives a vocabulary of words and glyphs in Nahuatl on p. 186-187.

Signatures: *⁴ ⁶ *⁴ A-C⁶ D⁴ E-G⁶ H⁴ I-O⁶ P⁴ Q-S⁶ T⁸ V-2B⁶ 2C⁴ 2D-2E⁶ 2F⁴ 2G-2N⁶ 2O⁴ 2P-2R⁶ 2S⁸ 2T-2Z⁶ 3A⁸ 3B-3D⁶ 3E⁴ 3F-3H⁶ 3I⁴ (3I4 verso blank)

Errata: p. [28], 1st count.

Includes index.

Willems, A.C.J. Les Elzevier, 327.

Vail, R.W.G. Old Frontier, 75.

Streit, R. Bib. missionum, II:1587.

Moraes, R.B. de. Bib. Brasiliana (1983 ed.), I: p. xxx.

Bibliotheca Americana: catalogue of the John Carter Brown Library in Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, II:229.

European Americana 630/88.

John Carter Brown Library copy 1 bound in contemporary vellum. Maps in this copy are double maps and have a mixture of Latin and Dutch titles.

John Carter Brown Library copy 2 bound in contemporary vellum. Maps in this copy are folded maps, of which there are 14, all of which have only Latin titles.