Praeclara Ferdina[n]di Cortesii de noua maris oceani Hyspania narratio sacratissimo, ac inuictissimo Carolo Romanoru[m] Imperatori semper Augusto, Hyspaniaru[m] &c. Regi anno Domini M.D.XX. transmissa
Subtitle: in qua continentur plurima scitu, & admiratione digna circa egregias earu[m] p[ro]uintiaru[m] urbes, incolaru[m] mores, pueroru[m] sacrificia, & reliogiosas personas, potissimu[m]q[ue] de celebri ciuitate Temixtitan variisq[ue] illi[us] mirabilib[us], qu[a]e lege[n]te[m] mirifice delectabu[n]t
By: p[er] Doctore[m] Petru[m] Saguorgnanu[m] Foro Iuliense[m] ... ex Hyspano idiomate in Latinu[m] versa.
Contributors: Savorgnano, Pietro, fl. 1523-1530.; Anghiera, Pietro Martire d', 1457-1526.; Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Per Fridericum Peypus
Published: 1524
Place of publication: Impressa in celebri ciuitate Norimberga
Language: lat
Subjects: Mexico -- History -- Conquest, 1519-1540.; Mexico City (Mexico) -- Maps.; America -- Discovery and exploration -- Spanish -- Early works to 1800.; America -- Early accounts to 1600.
Genres: Maps.; Early works to 1800.; Early accounts to 1600.
Other titles: Praeclara Ferdinandi Cortesii de nova maris oceani Hyspania narratio sacratissimo, ac invictissimo Carolo Romanorum Imperatori semper Augusto, Hyspaniarum &c. Regi anno Domini M.D.XX. transmissa
Notes: Latin translation of Cortes' second Carta de relación to Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor.
Place of publication and publisher from colophon on recto of leaf XLIX; date in the colophon reads: anno D[om]ini M.D.XXIIII: quar. no. Mar.
Signatures: a⁴ A-G⁶ H⁸ 2a-2b⁶ (H8 blank).
Fol. VIII (1st sequence) misfoliated XI.
"De rebus, et insulis nouiter repertis a Sereniss. Carolo Imperatore, et variis earum gentium moribus" by Pietro Martire d'Anghiera: fol. i-xii at end.
LC copy has green morocco binding signed by Riviere & Son.
Rosenwald 654
Alden, J.E.  European Americana 524/5
Church, E.D.  Discovery 53
Sabin 16947