The discovery of a new world or A description of the South Indies, hetherto unknowne
By: by an English Mercury
Publisher: Imprinted for Ed. Blount, and W. Barrett.
Published: 1609
Place of publication: London
Language: eng; lat
Translated from: eng
Number of pages: 244
Subjects: English Satire; Utopias; Fiction
Work titles: Mundus alter et idem
Notes: Text signed at end: The Cambridge Pilgrime.

"I.H. the translator, vnto I.H. the author"--4th prelim. leaf.

A humorous translation of Bishop Hall's Mundus alter et idem by John Healey. Cf. Sabin.

The authorship has also been attributed to Alberico Gentili. Cf. Petherick, E.A. Mundus alter et idem (In The Gentleman's magazine. July 1896, v. 281, p. 66-87)

Engraved t.p.; two small maps on t.p.; initials.

Signatures: [par.]⁸A⁸[par.]⁴B-Q⁸R².

Pages 145, 148-149, 152-153, 156-157, and 160 wrongly numbered 149, 152-153, 156-157, 160-161, and 164 respectively.

STC 12686

Sabin 29820

Sargent, L.T. Utopian literature, p.3