De nouo orbe, or, The historie of the West Indies, contayning the actes and aduentures of the Spanyardes, which haue conquered and peopled those countries, inriched with varietie of pleasant relation of the manners, ceremonies, lawes, gouernments, and warres of the Indians : comprised in eight decades / written by Peter Martyr a Millanoise of Angleria ... whereof three, haue beene formerly translated into English, by R. Eden, whereunto the other fiue, are newly added by ... M. Lok ...

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Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > De nouo orbe, or, The historie of the West Indies, contayning the actes and aduentures of the Spanyardes, which haue conquered and peopled those countries, inriched with varietie of pleasant relation of the manners, ceremonies, lawes, gouernments, and warres of the Indians : comprised in eight decades / written by Peter Martyr a Millanoise of Angleria ... whereof three, haue beene formerly translated into English, by R. Eden, whereunto the other fiue, are newly added by ... M. Lok ...

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Title: De nouo orbe, or, The historie of the West Indies, contayning the actes and aduentures of the Spanyardes, which haue conquered and peopled those countries, inriched with varietie of pleasant relation of the manners, ceremonies, lawes, gouernments, and warres of the Indians : comprised in eight decades / written by Peter Martyr a Millanoise of Angleria ... whereof three, haue beene formerly translated into English, by R. Eden, whereunto the other fiue, are newly added by ... M. Lok ...
Creator: Anghiera, Pietro Martire d', 1457-1526
Contributor: Eden, Richard, 1521?-1576
Lok, Michael
Published / Created: 1612
Publication Place: London :
Publisher: Printed for Thomas Adams,
Description: "Certaine preambles here followe, gathered by R. Eden heretofore, for the better vnderstanding of the whole worke": leaves 1-7.
First complete English translation of the eight Decades. The four translated by Eden had appeared as early as 1555, and again in 1577 with an abridgment of Decades 5-8.
First preliminary leaf blank; has signature A.
Imperfect: 1st, 3rd and 4th p.l., and leaves 158, 287, 288, 293, 294 (signatures A1,3,4, X8, Pp1,2,7,8) wanting: title-page and many leaves bled.
Signatures: A4B-Z8Aa-Ss8.
Extent: 6 p.l., 318 numb. l. ; 18 cm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been partially digitized.
Language: English

Collection Information

Repository: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Call Number: C13 113e

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Format: text
Subject (Geographic): America--Discovery and exploration
America--Early accounts to 1600
West Indies--History
Subject (Name): Eden, Richard, 1521?-1576
Lok, Michael

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Orbis Record: 1228917
Object ID (OID): 2047371