Americae pars VIII. Continens primo, descriptionem trivm itinervm Francisci Draken, qui circumnauigato vniuerso terrarum orbe, postea copiis nauticis, ad expugnandum ciuitatem Panamam, in Indiam nauigauit. Secvndo, iter ... Thomae Candisch ... Tertio, duo itinera ... Gvaltheri Ralech quibus describitur ... regnum Gviana ... cuius ... tabula geographica in fronte operis occurrit / Primo Anglicana lingva sparsim consignata: iam vero in vnum corpus redacta, & in Latinum sermonem conuersa; figurisq; illustrata & in lucem emissa, opera & sumptibus I. T. de Bry haeredum.
- Date:
- 1625
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Francofvrti : Typis E. Kempfferi, 1625.
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160 pages, 1 unnumbered bl. leaves : illustrations, engr. map on title page, engr. double-page map ; (folio)
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Second ed., 2d issue. cf. Church. Cat. of books relating to ... America, 167
The history of Drake's first voyage is translated from the account by Nuno da Silva; the second is based upon an account by Walter Bigges; the third is from Drake's logbook, continued by his mate. The voyage of Cavendish is by Francis Pretty; Raleigh's first voyage is written by himself; the account of the second is by Lawrence Kemys
Includes "Historiae Antipodvm sive Nova Orbis, partis nonae liber tertivs, qvo continetur ... narratio expeditionis [under Pieter van der Does] ... validissimae classis quae ... sumptibus illustrium Belgii foederati ... Occidentalem Indiam petiit, expugnatisque ... insulis, Canariae Magna & Gomera ... diuersa litora adiuit " (p. 129-160)
Historiae Antipodum, pts. 1-2, forms the 2d ed. of America, pt. 9.
Copy 1 Note: Bound with: Americae pars quinta. 1595.
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