Novus orbis, sive Descriptio Indiae Occidentalis
By: auctore Antonio de Herrera ... ; Metaphraste C. Barlaeo. Accesserunt & aliorum Indiae Occidentalis descriptiones, & navigationis nuperae australis Jacobi le Maire historia, uti & navigationum omnium per Fretum Magellanieum succincta narratio..
Contributors: Ordóñez de Ceballos, Pedro, ca. 1545-ca. 1630; Baerle, Caspar van, 1584-1648 tr.; Bertius, Petrus, 1565-1629; Colijn, Michiel.
Publisher: apud Michaelem Colinium bibliopolam, ad insigne libri domestici.
Published: 1622
Place of publication: Amstelodami
Language: lat
Number of pages: 82
Subjects: Voyages around the world -- Early works to 1800.; America -- Description and travel. -- Early works to 1800.; Magellan, Strait of (Chile and Argentina) -- Early works to 1800.; America -- Early accounts to 1600.
Genres: Early works to 1800.; Early accounts to 1600.
Other titles: Novvs orbis, sive Descriptio Indiae Occidentalis; Descriptio Indiae Occidentalis
Work titles: Descripción de las Indias Occidentales.
Notes: "Descriptio Indiae Occidentalis per Antonium de Herrera" is a translation of: Descripción de las Indias Occidentalis.

Engraved half title (leaf [2] (1st count)): Descriptio Indiae Occidentalis per Antonium de Herrera.

All except the third section have half titles. The last two sections have separate signatures.

Signatures *⁴ A-M⁴ (M2 + (three dots)²) N-X⁴ a-b⁴ c² [dagger]-3[dagger]⁴ (3[dagger]4 blank)

Nos. 21, 40 (pt.1) 81 (pt.2) 5 (pt.4) repeated in numbering of leaves.

This collection, which for convenience is entered under the name of the author of the first work included in it, was published by Colijn the same year in French and Dutch; in Dutch as "Nievve vverelt, anders ghenaempt VVest-Indien," and in French under title, "Description des Indes Occidentales." Cf. Tiele, Memoire bibl., 1867.

Some copies contain a portrait.

Errata statement on verso of leaf [4] (1st count).

Alden, J.E. European Americana, 622/70

Burns Library copy does not have a portrait.

c. 1: 99/00 0012R.
Table of contents: value: Descriptio Indiae Occidentalis per Antonium de Herrera; value: Ephemerides sive Descriptio Navigationis Australis institutae Ano M.D.C.XV. Ductu ... Institutae sunt, Navigationum; value: Descriptio Indiae Occidentalis ... Authore Petro Ordonnez De Cavallos; value: Brevis ac Succinca Americae ... descriptio, Excerpta ̀Tabulis Geeorgraphici, P. Bertii.