A description of the new world
Subtitle: Or, America islands and continent: and by what people those regions are now inhabited. And what places are there desolate and without inhabitants. And the bays, rivers, capes, forts, cities and their latitudes, the seas on their coasts: the trade, winds, the North-west passage, and the commerce of the English nation, as they were all in the year 1649. Faithfully described for information of such of his countrey as desire intelligence of these perticulars
By: By George Gardyner of Peckham in the county of Surrey Esq
Contributors: Brent, Nathaniel, Sir, 1573?-1652; Huth, Henry, 1815-1878
Publisher: Printed for Robert Leybourn, and are to be sold by Thomas Pirrepoint, at the Sun in S. Pauls Churchyard
Published: 1651
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 187
Subjects: Indians of North America; Indians of South America; Discovery and exploration; Description and travel
Other titles: Description of the new world.; America islands and continent.
Notes: Imprimatur, p. [2], 3rd count, dated and signed: November 18. 1650. Imprimatur Nathanael Brent.

Includes a treatise on commerce, a chapter on gold and silver, and information on various parts of the new world including: Newfoundland, Martins Vineyard [i.e. Martha's Vineyard], Long Island, the Bermudas, the Bahamas, Hispaniola, Cuba, Jamaica, the Virgin Islands, St. Christophers and Nevis, Monserrat, Barbados, Trinidad, New England, New Spain, Mexico, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Cartagena, Venezuala, Guiana, Brazil, Chile, Peru, and Quito. Also includes descriptions of the native peoples of the regions.

Signatures: A-M⁸ (A1, A2 versos blank) N⁸ (-N8) (N6, N7 versos blank)

Errata: p. [8], 1st count.

Woodcut illustration of the Elsevier printer's device appears on p. [1], 1st count.

Title printed within single rule border; woodcut head and tail pieces; initials.

Wing (CD-ROM, 1996), G252aA.

Baer, E. Seventeenth century Maryland, 34.

Handler, J.S. Barbados history, 3.

Church, E.D. Discovery, 512.

Bibliotheca Americana: catalogue of the John Carter Brown Library in Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, II:409.

European Americana 651/67.

English short title catalogue R7600.