The first three English books on America.

By: Contributor(s): Publication details: Birmingham [Printed by Turnbull & Spears, Edinburgh] 1885.Description: xlviii, 408 pages 29 x 23 cmContent type:
  • text
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  • unmediated
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  • volume
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  • 973.1, Ede
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Contents: Preface. - The first English book on America, of the new landes ... founde by the messengers of the Kynge of Portugal ... [Antwerp, 1511?]. The life and labours of Richard Eden. The second English book on America. A treatyse of the newe India ... after the description of Sebastian Munster in his universall Cosmographie ... tr. by Rycharde Eden [London, 1553]. The third English book on America. The decades of the newe worlde ... by Peter Martyr of Anghiera, tr ... by Rycharde Eden. London 1555 (Includes also abridgements or extracts from Oviedo. Natural history of the West Indies; Pigafetta, Antonio. The first circumnavigation of the globe; Eden R. The description oftwo viages made owt of England into Guinea, etc

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