A briefe description of the whole worlde
Subtitle: Wherein is particularly described all the monarchies, empires and kingdomes of the same with their academies. Newly augmented and enlarged; with their seueralitles and scituations thereunto adioyning
Edition: The third edition.
Publisher: Printed [by R. Bradock] for Iohn Browne, and are to be sold at his shoppe in Saint Dunstans Churchyard in Fleetstreet
Published: 1608
Place of publication: At London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 160
Subjects: Geography; Discovery and exploration
Other titles: Briefe description of the whole world.
Notes: Attributed to George Abbot, who served as the Archbishop of Canterbury from 1611-1633, by Pollard.

Name of printer supplied by Pollard.

First edition printed in London, 1599.

"Of America or the New World": p. [117-137]

"Of the partes of America, towards the north": p. [137-141]

"Of Peru and Brasile": p. [141-154]

"Of those countries that lye about the two poles": p. [154-158]

Signatures: A-V⁴ (N2 missigned M2) (A1 verso blank)

Woodcut printer's ornament on title page; head and tail pieces; initials.

Pollard, A.W. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English books printed abroad, 1475-1640 (2nd ed.), 27.

Bibliotheca Americana: catalogue of the John Carter Brown Library in Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, II: p. 49.

European Americana, 608/1.

English short title catalogue, S115225.

Purchase; 1846; 0575.