A treatyse of the newe India, with other new founde landes and ilandes, aswell eastwarde as westwarde, as they are knowen and found in these oure dayes, after the descripcion of Sebastian Munster in his boke of vniuersall cosmographie: :
wherin the diligent reader may see the good successe and rewarde of noble and honeste enterpryses, by the which not only worldly ryches are obtayned, but also God is glorified, & the Christian fayth enlarged. /
Translated out of Latin into Englishe. By Rycharde Eden.

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Main Author

Münster, Sebastian, 1489-1552.

Related Names

Clements, William L. (William Lawrence), 1861-1934, former owner.
Sutton, Edward, -1570, printer.
Eden, Richard, 152167?-1576, translator.
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English

Published

Imprinted at London, in Lombarde Strete, : by Edward Sutton., 1553.

Subjects

Voyages and travels.
Geography > Geography / Early works to 1800.
America > America / Discovery and exploration > America / Discovery and exploration / Early works to 1800.
America > America / Early accounts to 1600.
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Exploration literature.

Note

"Of the newe India and Ilãdes in the West Ocean sea, how, when, and by whõ they were found": leaves G4-M.
Title vignette; initials; tail-pieces.
Signatures: 2a⁸ A-L⁸ M⁶ (I3, I4 missigned G3, G4).
Later edition appeared under title: A briefe collection and compendious extract of the strau[n]ge and memorable things, gathered oute of the cosmographye of Sebastian Munster.
Imprint from colophon.
Extracted and translated from the Latin: Cosmographia. Basileae, 1550; itself translation from the German: Cosmographia. Beschreibung aller Lender. Basel, 1544. Consult: European Americana.

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[204] p. ; 15 cm. (8vo)

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