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Creator:
Herrera y Tordesillas, Antonio de, d. 1625
Title(s):
Description des Indes Occidentales, qu'on appelle aujourdhuy le Nouveau Monde / par Antoine de Herrera ... ; translatee d'espagnol en françois ; a la quelle sont adjoustees quelques autres descriptions des mesmes pays, avec la navigation du vaillant capitaine de mer Jaques le Maire & de plusieurs autres ...
Additional Title(s):
Descripción de las Indias Occidentales. French
Published/Created:
A Amsterdam : Chez Michel Colin libraire, demeurant au livre domestique, 1622.
Physical Description:
[6], 103, [7], 107-254 p., [35] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., 17 maps ; 29 cm. (fol.)
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
E141 H5614 1622+ Oversize
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Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
"Descriptio Indiæ Occidentalis per Antonium de Herrera" is a translation of: Descripcion de las Indias Occidentales, 1st published Madrid, 1601.
There is another issue consisting of the same sheets with imprint: A Amsterdam : Chez Emanuel Colin de Thovoyon marchandt libraire, & on le vent à Paris Chez Michel Soly ... Anno M.D.C.XXII.
Signatures: *⁴ A-N⁴ O⁴(O1+[three dots]²) P-2D⁴ 2E⁶ 2F-2G⁴ 2H⁶(-2H6).
Also published by Colijn the same year in Latin as: Nouus Orbis, sive, Descriptio Indiae Occidentalis" and in Dutch as: Nievvve vverelt, anders ghenaempt VVest-Indjen."--cf. Tiele, Memoire Bibl., 1867.
Bibliotheca Americana: catalogue of the John Carter Brown Library in Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, 2:166.
Sabin, J. Dictionary of books relating to America from its discovery to the present time, 31543.
Streit, R. Bibliotheca missionum, 2:1532.
Subject Terms:
America -- Description and travel.
America -- Early accounts to 1600.
Magellan, Strait of (Chile and Argentina)
Voyages around the world -- To 1700.
Form/Genre:
Engravings.
Contributors:
Le Maire, Jacques, 1585–1616.
Ordóñez de Cevallos, Pedro, b. 1550?.
Bertius, Petrus, 1565–1629.
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  • Descriptio Indiæ Occidentalis per Antonium de Herrera ([3-8], 103 p. with engraved half title)
  • Iournal, & Miroire De La Navigation Australe Du ... / Seigneur Iaques Le Maire ([2-7], 107-178 p. with half title)
  • Recueil & Abbregé De tous les Voyages, qui ont esté faicts devers le Destroit de Magallanes (179-199 p. with caption title)
  • Particuliere Description De L'Inde Occidentale ... / par ... Pedro Ordonnez de Cevallos ([201]-227 p. with half title)
  • Description D'Amerique ... / de Petrus Bertius ([229]-254 p. with half title)

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