Novvs orbis, sive Descriptio Indiae Occidentalis, auctore Antonio Herrera …

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Metaphraste C. Barlaeo. Acc. et aliorum Indiae e Occidentalis descriptiones et navigationis nuperae Australis Jac. le Maire historia, uti et navigationum omnium per Fretum Magellanicum succincta narratio . Also titled: Descriptio Indiae Occidentalis per Antonium de Herrera Regium Indiarum et Castellae Historiographum. Amstelodami [Amsterdam] : Colinius [Colijn, Michiel], M. D. C. XXII [1622]. Three works bound in one, folio, contemporary limp vellum; [4], 81 [i.e. 82, 1], 9, 11 ff; title-leaf with printer s device and early ownership signatures; second title-leaf with engraved vignette illustrations; 5 copper-engraved illustrations (lacking the portrait of Le Maire, present in some copies but not called for in the list of plates) and 17 double-page engraved maps; front free-endpaper roughened at bottom edge and with short tear at fore-edge; occasional spotting, some browning at bottom margins of first section, mild damp-staining to fore-edge margins of last few leaves; a very good large paper copy; housed in a custom clamshell box, half calf over cloth, spine with raised bands and red morocco label in gilt. The first edition in Latin of three works by Herrera (incorporating Le Maire s account), Ordóñez de Cevallos, and Bertius. The Amsterdam printer, Michel Colin, published collected editions of the three works in Dutch, Latin and French in 1622. Contents: I.Antonij de Herrera, Indiae Occidentalis descriptio. II.Historia navigationis australis ductu moderamine Iacobi le Maire

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