Yale Center for British Art
Creator:
Herrera y Tordesillas, Antonio de, d. 1625
Title:
Nouus Orbis, sive, Descriptio Indiae Occidentalis / auctore Antonio de Herrera ... ; metaphraste C. Barlæo ; accesserunt & aliorum Indiæ Occidentalis descriptiones, & navigationis nuperæ Australis Jacobi le Maire historia, uti & navigationum omnium per Fretum Magellanicum succincta narratio.
Alternate Title(s):
Descripción de las Indias Occidentalis. Latin
Published / Created:
Amstelodami : Apud Michaelem Colinium bibliopolam, ad insigne libri domestici, 1622.
Physical Description:
[4], 81 [i.e. 82], [1], 11, [1] leaves, [35] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., 17 maps, port. ; 38 cm. (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Related Content:
View a selection of digital images in the Yale Center for British Art's online catalogue https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/orbis:583345
Classification:
Books
Notes:
"Descriptio Indiæ Occidentalis per Antonium de Herrera" is a translation of: Descripción de las Indias Occidentalis.
Contents:
Descriptio Indiæ Occidentalis per Antonium de Herrera -- Ephemerides sive Descriptio Navigationis Australis institutæ Anno M.D.C.XV. Ductu ... Iacobi Le Maire -- Brevis Narratio Omnium, quæ per Fretum Magellanicum institutæ sunt, Navigationum -- Descriptio Indiae Occidentalis ... Authore Petro Ordonnez De Cavallos -- Brevis ac Succincta Americæ ... descriptio, Excerpta è Tabulis Geographicis, P. Bertii
Subject Terms:
Voyages around the world. | Magellan, Strait of (Chile and Argentina) | America -- Description and travel. | America -- Early accounts to 1600.
Form/Genre:
Engravings.
Contributors:
Baerle, Caspar van, 1584–1648. | Le Maire, Jacques, 1585–1616. | Ordóñez de Cevallos, Pedro, b. 1550?. | Bertius, Petrus, 1565–1629.