"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., and Signatures: A4B-Z8Aa-Ss8.
Publisher:
Printed for Thomas Adams,
Subject (Geographic):
America--Discovery and exploration, America--Early accounts to 1600, and West Indies--History
