The History of trauayle in the VVest and East Indies
and other countreys lying eyther way towardes the fruitfull and ryche Moluccaes. As Moscouia, Persia, Arabia, Syria, Aegypte, Ethiopia, Guinea, China in Cathayo, and Giapan: VVith a discourse of the Northwest passage. In the hande of our Lorde be all the corners of the earth. Psal. 94
by Pietro Martire d' Anghiera
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Signatures: 4to: (.)⁴ [fleuron]⁶ A-B⁴ C-3O⁸ [$4 (-[fleuron]4, B4, 2T4) signed (missigning [fleuron]3 as [caput]3, 2G1 as G1, 2O4 as O4, 2X2 as 2Y2, 3O2 as O2)]; 482 leaves: [10] 1-466 6.
Printed in black letter; initials; marginal references.
Originally published in 1555.
Errata: leaves [1-3] at the end.
Includes the 1st three Decades of P. Martyr d'Anghiera, Pope Alexander VI's Demarcation Bull of 1493, Oviedo's History of the West Indies, Pigaffetta's circumnavigation account, 'The stryfe betwene the Spanyards and Portugales' from Gomara, an abridgement of Anghiera's 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th decades, etc.
Eden's "Decades of the newe worlde", 1555, rearranged, some parts omitted, and a number of translations added.
Woodcut of polar stars verso of leaf 436.
Brown Univ. JCB library catalogue, 1:266.
Alden, J.E. European Americana, 577/2.
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