Mundus nouus
Subtitle: De natura et moribus [et] ceteris id g[e]n[er]is ge[n]tis que i[n] nouo mu[n]do opera [et] impe[n]sis serenissimi Portugallie regis superioribus a[n]nis inuento
By: Albericus Vesputius Laure[n]tio Petri de Medicis salute[m] plurima[m] dicit
Publisher: Wm. Vorsterman
Published: 1505
Place of publication: Antwerp
Language: lat
Translated from: ita
Subjects: Discovery and exploration
Work titles: Mundus novus
Notes: Caption title.

Latin translation by "iocundus interpres" (i.e. Fra Giovanni Giocondo da Verona) of the Italian manuscript giving Vespucci's account of his third voyage, addressed to Lorenzo de Medici in 1503.

Originally published as: Albericus Vespuccius Laurentio Petri Francisci de Medicis salutem plurimam dicit / by Amerigo Vespucci, Paris, 1503. Generally known as: Mundus novus.

Date of publication based on Sabin.

Ninth edition in Latin as described by Sabin.

A reprint of the edition printed in Cologne by J. Landen in the same year (European Americana, 505/17)

Publisher's device on last page.

Gothic type; 44 lines. With initial indicators and initials; without catchwords, foliation and signature marks.

Harrisse, H. Bibliotheca americana vetustissima, 29.

Medina, J.T. Biblioteca hispano-americana (1493-1810), 28.

Nijhoff, W. Nederlandsche bibliographie van 1500 tot 1540 (1923-61 edition), 4055.

Sabin, J. Dictionary of books relating to America from its discovery to the present time, 99336.

European Americana 505/17a.

Purchase; 1922; 13252.