A memoir of Stephen Parmenius of Buda
Subtitle: with a Latin poem
By: composed by him in MDLXXXIII and now first translated into English, MDCCCIV.
Contributors: Holmes, Abiel, 1763-1837.
Published: 1804
Place of publication: [Boston
Language: eng; lat
Number of pages: 27
Subjects: Gilbert, Humphrey, Sir, 1539?-1583 -- Poetry.; America -- Discovery and exploration -- Poetry.
Notes: Caption title.
The memoir (signed: A. H.) and the translation are by Abiel Holmes.
The original poem was first published in 1582 under title: De navigatione ... Humfredi Gilberti ... The present translation is based on the 1583 text included in v. 3 of R. Hakluyt's The principal navigations ..., 1598-1600.
Separate issue of an article in Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society, v. 9, 1804, p. 49-75.
Pages 25-26 wrongly numbered 17-18. Numbering excised from p. 27 in L.C. copy.
Bound with Holmes, Abiel. The history of Cambridge. Boston, 1801. Copy 4.