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Description and travel, Discovery and exploration, Early accounts to 1600, Early works to 1800, History, MapsPlaces
America, Latin AmericaTimes
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Americae pars qvarta.: Sive Insignis & admiranda historia de reperta primùm Occidentali India à Christophoro Colombo anno M.CCCCXCII Scripta ab Hieronymo Benzono mediolanense, aui istic a[n]nis XIIII. versatus, dilige[n]ter omnia observa vit.
1594, typis Ioannis Feyrabend, impensis Theodori de Bry
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Signatures: ):(:(p4s, ): ():(p4s, A-Qp4s, Rp6s (Rp6s blank), A-Ep4s, Fp6s (Fp6s blank)
Page 109 misnumbered 100
First edition, second issue. with duplicate title-page preceding plates.--Church 154
Engraved t.-p. with emblem and device of De Bry; head and tail pieces; initials. The plate of the seven seutcheens and the six virtues; 2d prelim. leaf, the imperial privilege on verso. "Ad lectorem": 3d prelim. leaf; Latin and French verses in honor of De Bry with engr. vignette at head "Americae retectio": 4th prelim. leaf; "Christianis & piis lectoribus S.": p. 1-7; "Epigrammata aliqvot" p. 8-9; "Primi libri svmma et argvmentvm": p. 10
Map preceding text (p. 11) has title: Occidentalis Americae partis, vel, earum regionum quas Christophorus Columbus primu[m] detexit ... praesertum vero ex Hieronymi Benzoni (qui totis XIIII annis eas provincia' diligenter perlustravit) Historia, [2 lines] Anno M.D.XCIIII
Translated by Urbain Chauveton from "Historia del mondo nuove, published in Venice in 1565
Modern binding by Sangorski & Sutcliffe for Henry Stevens, Son & Stiles, London
Microfilm. Cambridge, Mass., General Microfilm Co., 1968. 1 microfilm reel. 35 mm. (German books before 1601, 1968 series, roll 76, item 6)
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