De nouo orbe, or, The historie of the West Indies
Subtitle: contayning the actes and aduentures of the Spanyardes, which haue conquered and peopled those countries, inriched with varietie of pleasant relation of the manners, ceremonies, lawes, gouernments, and warres of the Indians : comprised in eight decades
By: written by Peter Martyr a Millanoise of Angleria ... ; whereof three, haue beene formerly translated into English, by R. Eden, whereunto the other fiue, are newly added by ... M. Lok ..
Contributors: Eden, Richard, 1521?-1576; Lok, Michael, b. 1531 or 2
Series: Selected Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to America, from its discovery to the present time -- 1563
Publisher: Printed for Thomas Adams
Published: 1612
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Number of pages: 318
Subjects: America -- Early accounts to 1600
Other titles: Historie of the West Indies; De nouo orbe
Notes: First preliminary leaf blank; has signature A

"Certaine preambles here followe, gathered by R. Eden heretofore, for the better vnderstanding of the whole worke": leaves 1-7

First complete English translation of the eight Decades. The four translated by Eden had appeared as early as 1555, and again in 1577 with an abridgment of Decades 5-8

Sabin 1563

Microopaque. Louisville [Ky.] : Lost Cause Press, 1966. 17 microcards : positive ; 7.5 x 12.5 cm. (Selected Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to America, from its discovery to the present time)