History of travayle in the West and East Indies, and other countreys lying eyther way, towardes the fruitfull and ryche Moluccaes

History of travayle in the West and East Indies, and other countreys lying eyther way, towardes the fruitfull and ryche Moluccaes

Full title: The history of trauayle in the VVest and East Indies and other countreys lying eyther way, towardes the fruitfull and ryche Moluccaes. : As Moscouia, Persia, Arabia, Syria, Aegypte, Ethiopia, Guinea, China in Cathayo, and Giapan : vvith a discourse of the Northwest passage. : [Two lines from Psalms] / Gathered in parte, and done into Englyshe by Richarde Eden. ; Newly set in order, augmented, and finished by Richarde VVilles.

Pietro Martire d'Anghiera, 1457-1526

London : By Richarde Iugge

1577

[10], 466, [6] leaves : ill. (woodcut) ; 20 cm (4to)

Lacks title page; trimming affects marginal notes; leaf 2M8 torn, affecting printed marginalia; wormtrack.

Annotations in early and modern hands ; signed "Liber Richardi Framptoni" on [fleuron]6v (crossed out), 2L4v and 3O2v.

A translation, with some omissions, of decades 1-3 of "De orbe novo" by Pietro Martire d'Anghiera; with additions from numerous other sources edited by Eden and Willes.

With six final errata (3O3 recto-3O5 recto) and contents leaves (3O5 verso-3O8 verso).

At foot of title: Cum priuilegio.

Printed in black letter, initials and printed marginalia; woodcut of stars at South Pole on leaf 436v.

Presented by Seymour Schulich (Gift2015).

Eden, Richard, 1521?-1576, translator.
Willes, Richard, active 1558-1573, editor.
Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés, Gonzalo, 1478-1557.
Jugge, Richard, approximately 1514-1577, printer.
Anghiera, Pietro Martire d', 1457-1526. De orbe novo.
Schulich, Seymour, donor.

English

Dated 1577 .A54
STC (2nd ed.) 649
ESTC S122069