Descriptio ac delineatio geographica detectionis freti
Subtitle: sive, Transitus ad occasum, suprà terras Americanas in Chinam atq[ue] Iaponem ducturi, recens investigati ab M. Henrico Hudsono Anglo. : Item, Narratio ser.mo regi Hispaniæ facta, super tractu, in quinta orbis terrarum parte, cui Australiæ incognitæ nomen est, recens detecto, per Capitaneum Petrum Ferdinandez de Quir. : Vnà cum descriptione terræ Samoiedarum [et] Tingoesiorum, in Tartaria ad ortum Freti VVaygats sitæ, nuperq; imperio Moscovitarum subactæ
Contributors: Fernández de Quirós, Pedro, 1565?-1615; Massa, Isaac, 1587-1635
Publisher: Ex officina Hesselij Gerardi.
Published: 1612
Place of publication: Amsterodami
Language: lat
Number of pages: 24
Subjects: Description and travel
Other titles: Descriptio ac delineatio geographica detectionis freti.
Work titles: Beschryvinghe vander Samoyeden Landt. Latin
Notes: Translation by Reiner Teller of: Beschryvinghe vander Samoyeden Landt.

Edited by Hessel Gerritsz.

Second issue, typographically identical to the first issue but with cancel title page and the order of the tracts altered. Originally published as: Exemplar libelli supplicis. Amsterdam, 1612.

Signatures: pi1 A⁶ B-E⁴ F¹ (pi1 and F1 verso blank)

"Contains the first printed accounts of Hudson's discoveries in the northern part of America and the first map of Hudson Bay."--Church.

Brown Univ.  JCB Library catalogue, (3)2:84.

Sabin 33490.

Church, E.D.  Catalogue discovery America, 354.

Asher, G.M.  Henry Hudson, 267-8.

Digital version of maps on Luna Imaging.

John Carter Brown Library copy 1 lacks preliminary blank leaf.

John Carter Brown Library copy 2 lacks preliminary blank leaf but contains the cancelled title page in addition to the cancel.