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The historie of the West-Indies : containing the actes and adventures of the Spaniards, which have conquered and peopled those countries, inriched with varietie of pleasant relation of the manners, ceremonies, lawes, governments, and warres of the Indians / published in Latin by Mr. Hakluyt ; and translated into English by M. Lok, Gent. ...

Accession number
PML 3369
Creator
Anghiera, Pietro Martire d', 1457-1526.
Published
London : Printed for Andrew Hebb, [1625?]
Credit line
Purchased with the Irwin collection, 1900.
Notes
English edition with an Epistola dedicatoria from another copy?.
Contains the Eight decades.
This is a translation of Peter Martyr's "De Orbe novo... Decades octo" which was edited and published in Latin by Richard Haklyut in Paris in 1587 and translated by Michael Lok. It was first published in London for T. Adams in 1612. This edition is described in S.T.C. 651 as "Another issue with new title-leaf and dated 1625."
Description
1 v.
Provenance
Theodore Irwin (1827-1902); J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Irwin collection, 1900.
Binding
Red morocco by William Pratt for Irwin.
Classification
Department