Imprnt from colophon.

Signatures: a⁶ b-n⁸ (g4 missigned h4) (l7, m5 versos blank) o⁶ (o5 verso, o6 blank).

Title printed in red and black below woodcut of arms of Spain; section title to libro quarto also in red and black; woodcut initials.

Errors in foliation: leaves xviii and xcvii missigned xxv and xcix.

Includes numerous woodcut in text diagrams. Each section has divisional page with a woodcut illustration such as astronomical or ship illustrations.

Woodcut map with legend "Nuevo Mundo", showing the west coast of Europe and Africa, the north coast of South America, Central America, and the Atlantic coast of North America, appears on leaf d6 recto. It also shows the demarcation line between Spanish and Portuguese possessions.

Harrisse, H. Bibliotheca americana vetustissima, 266

Palau y Dulcet, A. Manual del librero hispano-americano, 159664

Medina, J.T. Biblioteca hispano-americana (1493-1810), 123

Moraes, R.B. de. Bibliographia brasiliana (1983 edition), II: page 47-48

European Americana, 545/19

Purchase; 1846; 0249.