Mundus novus.

Size of leaf 194 137 mm.
Size of text (f.4[superscript]a) 150 110 mm.
Note: The `Paris, Lambert' is probably the first Latin ed. of this letter.
This is a Latin translation by Giovanni Giocondo of Vespucci's letter (in Italian) addressed to Lorenzo di Pier Francesco de' Medici, giving an account of his third voyage.
2nd (?) Latin ed.
f.1[superscript]a. [Title] Mundus nouus. Albericus Vesputius Laurentio Petri De Medicis Salutem Pluri Mamdici. [Text] 1.1, Square framed woodcut initial 3. ocoupying 6 lines. Uperioribus diebus satis ample tibi ... scripsi de reditu meo 1.32, num dirigentes versus antartichum parumper per occidentem inflesim[superscript]9 1[superscript]a & 1.1, per ventum ... 1.41 [and] i7 hij fue- 2[superscript]a. 1.1, re Quadrans ... 1.22, square woodcut initial F of 5 lines. Rimuz igitur quo ad gētes. 1.39 [and] Quarum nonnulle 2[superscript]b .1.1, sunt longitudinis ... 1.42 [and] honestatem con 3[superscript]a.1.1, sulto pretereo ... 1.41 [and] figuris orna 3[superscript]b., 1.1, tum est ... 1.29 of text, Sic illud appellari licuit. 4[superscript]a.1.1, IGitur uti ... 1.40 [and] Quid fiet intelliges. 4[superscript]b. 1.I, Ex Italica in Latinam linguam iocundus interpreshanc epistolam vertit ... 1.5 [and] et que contineantur in ec. [below] Laus Deo. [below] a triangular diagram with 5 words.
On f.3[superscript]a, between lines 11 & 12 of text, is a design of 3 stars, 4 lines of figures each resembling the numeral 5, and, to right, the word Canopus; between lines 18 & 19, a similar design, but with 6 stars.
Neither signatures, catchwords nor pagination, 42 lines to full p. of text. Small black Gothic letter.