<oai_dc:dc xmlns:oai_dc="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/ http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc.xsd"><dc:title>Americae pars quarta, sive, Insignis &amp; admiranda historia de reperta primùm Occidentali India à Christophoro Columbo anno MCCCCXCII / scripta ab Hieronymo Bezono Mediolanense, qui istic an[n]is XIIII versatus, dilige[n]ter omnia observavit ; addita ad singula ferè capita, non contemnenda scholia in quibus agitur de earum etiam gentium idololatria ; accessit praeterea illarum regionum tabula chorographica ; omnia figuris in aes incisis expressa à Theodoro de Bry Leodiense, cive Francofurtensi anno MDXCIIII ; ad investis Rudolph. Rom. Imperator ; cum privilegio S.C. Maiestat.</dc:title><dc:date>anno MDLXXXXIIII [1594]</dc:date><dc:description>2nd. ed. Cf. Chruch. T.p. signed: A.E. Arabic numbers on plates. Plate XI with catchword "Indi."</dc:description><dc:description>Engraved t.p.</dc:description><dc:description>Imperfect: wormed with some loss of text. Map (32 x 43 cm, on sheet 34 x 45 cm) bound following leaf R6.</dc:description><dc:description>Includes Urbain Chauveton's Latin translation of bk. 1 of Benzoni's Historia del Mondo Nuovo, with additional notes.</dc:description><dc:description>Map: Occidentalis Americae partis, vel earum regionium quas Christophorus Columbus primu[m] detexit ... praesertim verò ex Hieronyni Benzoni (qui totis XIIII annis eas provincias diligenter perlustravit) historia, conflata &amp; in aes incisa à Theodoro de Bry Leod' anno MDXCIIII. Scale not given.</dc:description><dc:description>Signatures: 2):(⁴, ²2):(⁴, A-Q⁴ R⁶, ²A-E⁴ F⁶ (R6, ²F6 blank)</dc:description><dc:format>text</dc:format></oai_dc:dc>