Beschrijvinghe van West-Indien
By: door Ioannes de Laet
Edition: Tweede druck : / in ontallijcke plaetsen verbetert, vermeerdert, met eenige nieuwe caerten, beelden van verscheyden dieren ende planten verciert.
Publisher: bij de Elzeviers
Published: 1630
Place of publication: Tot Leyden
Language: dut
Number of pages: 622
Subjects: Botany; Wyandot language; Indian linguistics; Nahuatl language; Glossaries, vocabularies; Zoology; Natural history; Discovery and exploration
Other titles: Nieuvve wereldt ofte beschrijvinghe van West-Indien.
Work titles: Nieuwe Wereldt
Notes: First printed in Leiden, 1625 under title: Nieuwe wereldt ofte Beschrijvinghe van West-Indien.

Title page is fully engraved and framed within ornamental border.

Some copies have double maps and some have folded maps. In many copies there is a mix of Latin and Dutch titles in the cartouches of the maps. Some copies also contain "Maiores minoresqve insvlae. Hispaniola, Cvba Lucaiae et Caribes" in place of "De groote ende kleyne eylanden van West-Indien" as the title of the second map.

Includes various specimens of indigenous language vocabularies: Book 2, chapters XIII and XVII include a small list of vocabulary on p. 70 and p. 74, 2nd counts, in the Huron language as spoken in Hochelaga, which was the indigenous name for Montréal; and Book 5, chapter IX gives a vocabulary of words and glyphs in Nahuatl on p. 186-187.

Signatures: *⁴ **⁶ ***⁴ A-C⁶ D⁴ E-G⁶ H⁴ I-O⁶ P⁴ Q-S⁶ T⁸ V-2B⁶ 2C⁴ 2D-2E⁶ 2F⁴ 2G-2N⁶ 2O⁴ 2P-2R⁶ 2S⁸ 2T-2Z⁶ 3A⁸ 3B-3D⁶ 3E⁴ 3F-3H⁶ 3I⁴ (3I4 verso blank)

Errata: p. [28], 1st count.

Includes index.

Willems, A.C.J. Les Elzevier, 327.

Vail, R.W.G. Old Frontier, 75.

Streit, R. Bib. missionum, II:1587.

Moraes, R.B. de. Bib. Brasiliana (1983 ed.), I: p. xxx.

Bibliotheca Americana: catalogue of the John Carter Brown Library in Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, II:229.

European Americana 630/88.

John Carter Brown Library copy 1 bound in contemporary vellum. Maps in this copy are double maps and have a mixture of Latin and Dutch titles.

John Carter Brown Library copy 2 bound in contemporary vellum. Maps in this copy are folded maps, of which there are 14, all of which have only Latin titles.
Table of contents: title: (From table on contents) Van de West-Indische eylanden; title: Van Nova Francia; title: Van Virginia; title: Van Florida; title: Van Nova Hispania; title: Van Nova Galicia ofte Guadalaiara; title: Van Guatemala; title: Van Terra Firma; title: Van Neuvo [sic] Reyno de Granada; title: Van Peru; title: Van Chile; title: Van Magallanica; title: Van Rio de la Plata; title: Van Brasil; title: Van de wilde custe ofte Guaiana; title: Van Nova Andaluzia.; title: [Maps copy 1]: Americae sive Indiae Occidentalis tabula generalis; title: De groote ende kleyne eylanden van West-Indien; title: Nova Francia et regiones adiacentes - Nova Anglia, Novvm Belgivm et Virginia; title: Florida et regiones vicinae; title: Nova Hispania, Nova Galicia, Gvatimala; title: Tierra firma met Nvevo Reyno de Granada ende Popayan; title: Perv; title: Chili - Provincien van de Straet van Magallanes ende van de Straet le Maire; title: Paragvay, ó Prov. de Rio de La Plata: met de aenplende landen van Tvcvman, ende Sta. Crvz de la Sierra; title: [']T landt van Brasil met de aengelegene provincien; title: Gvaiana ofte de provincien tusschen Rio de las Amazonas ende Rio de Yviapari ofte Orinoqve; title: Venezvela, ende het westelyckste gedeelte van Nveva Andalvsia.; title: (Maps copy 2): Americae sive Indiae Occidentalis tabula generalis; title: Maiores minoresqve insvlae. Hispaniola, Cvba Lucaiae et Caribes; title: Nova Francia et regiones adiacentes; title: Nova Anglia, Novvm Belgivm et Virginia; title: Florida et regiones vicinae; title: Nova Hispania, Nova Galicia, Gvatimala; title: Tierra firma item Nvevo Reyno de Granada atque Popayan; title: Perv; title: Chili; title: Provinciae sitae ad Fretvm Magallanis itemque Fretvm le Maire; title: Paragvay, ó Prov. de Rio de La Plata cum adiacentibus provinciis quas vocant Tvcvman, et S. Cruz de La Sierra; title: Provincia de Brasil cum adiacentibuvs provinciis; title: Gvaiana siue provinciae intra Rio de las Amazonas atque Rio de Yviapari siue Orinoqve; title: Venezvela, atque occidentalis pars Novae Andalvsiae.