America: or An exact description of the West-Indies
Subtitle: more especially of those provinces which are under the dominion of the king of Spain
By: Faithfully represented by N.N. gent
Contributors: Hodgkinson, Richard, active 1624-1668, printer; Dod, Edward, active 1646-1661, bookseller
Publisher: Printed by R.H. [i.e. Hodgkinson] for Edw. Dod, and are to be sold at the Gun in Ivy-lane
Published: 1657
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 484
Subjects: Discovery and exploration; Early works to 1800; Description and travel; History; Découverte et exploration; Ouvrages avant 1800; Descriptions et voyages; Histoire; Discoveries in geography; Travel
Other titles: Exact description of the West-Indies; America: the second part
Notes: Printer's name from Wing CD.

The first part includes the discovery of America by Columbus and Vespucius, with "some particular adventures made by the English into the parts of America." "Apparently written with the view of instigating the English to the conquest of the Spanish dominions in America."--Rich 301.

Part 2 has special t.p.: America: The second part: containing the topographicall description of the several provinces, both of the northern and southern part: with some other observations incident thereto: By N.N. [London] Printed by R. Hodgkinsonne for E. Dod [n.d.] (p. [227]-484).

"America: the second part"; pagination and register are continuous.

A reissue with cancel title page of the 1655 edition (Wing N26).

Engraved map bound between A8 and B1 has title: Americae descrip.

The first leaf is blank.

Error in paging: p. 243 misprinted as 143

Signatures: A⁸(-A1) B-2H⁸ 2I⁴(-2I4).

Errata note -- p. [485].

"Books printed and to be sold by Edward Dod ... ": p. [486].

"Entered at Stationers' Hall, by Thomas Peake."--John Carter Brown Cat., II, II, p. 453.

Head-pieces; initials.

Church, E.D. Catalogue of books relating to the discovery and early history of North and South America, no. 542

English short title catalogue R224357

Wing, D.G. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America, and of English books printed in other countries, 1641-1700 (CD-Rom, 1996), N26A