Description of the Canary Islands, including the modern history of the inhabitants, and an account of their manners, customs, trade, &c. and Historia de la conquista de las siete islas de Gran Canaria. English
Description:
Imperfect: all but title page, pages 1-2, and leaves of plates wanting. Stamps on title page: American Geographical and Statistical Socy.; duplicate copy sold.
Publisher:
Printed for R. and J. Dodsley in Pall-mall, and T. Durham in the Strand,
Subject (Geographic):
Canary Islands--Description and travel--Early works to 1800 and Canary Islands--History--Early works to 1800
Subject (Name):
American Geographical and Statistical Society Stamp, Dodsley, James, 1724-1797, Dodsley, Robert, 1704-1764, Durham, Thomas (Bookseller), and Glas, Ge
Benzoni, Girolamo, b. 1519. Historia del Mondo Nuovo. Book 3. Latin. 1596 Bry, Theodor de, 1528-1598
Published / Created:
1596
Call Number:
E159 +B79 6-9
Image Count:
2
Description:
First ed. Cf. Church. Cat. of books relating to ... America, 158., Novae Novi Orbis historiae, liber 3 (by G. Benzoni, tr. and annotated by Urbain Chauveton)--Brevis insvlarvm quae Canariae appellantvr ... descriptio.--De Gallorvm expeditione in Floridam ... 1565 (including the petition on behalf of the families of those massacred there by the Spanish in 1565, repeated from America. pt. 2), The t.p., with a new engr. title on a slip mounted over the original text, is repeated preceding the plates., and With this is bound the editor's [America. pts. 7-9. Latin] Francoforti, 1599-1602. Imperfect: signature G6 (2nd count) blank, wanting.
Subject (Geographic):
America--Early accounts to 1600, America--History--To 1600, Canary Islands--Description and travel--Early works to 1800, Florida--History--Huguenot colony, 1562-1565, and Peru--History--Conquest, 1522-1548
