Dos libros de cosmographia
By: compuestos nueuamente por Hieronymo Giraua Tarragones.
Series: Hispanic culture series -- roll 29
Publisher: [Iuan Antonio Castellon, y maestro Christoual Caron]
Published: 1556
Place of publication: Impresso en Milan
Language: spa
Format: Microform
Number of pages: 271
Subjects: Geography -- Early works to 1800 -- Early works to 1800; Latin literature, Medieval and modern; Latin American literature
Genres: Early works to 1800
Notes: Italic type.

Colophon: Estampado en Milan por maestro Iuan Antonio Castellon, y maestro Christoual Caron ...À los 18. de abril, de M.D.LVI. Años.

P. l. [1]ro, title within ornamental woodcut border; underneath, woodcut representing author measuring a globe, with legend "Con el tiempo girava".--p. l. [1]vo, diagram: centaur, with motto "In silentio et spe".--p. l. [2] Dedication to Gonçalo Perez.--p. l. [3]-[4]ro Table of contents.--p. l. [4]vo, list of 51 writers consulted by the author.--Text, p. 1-271 (sig. Hh numbered 241-248 instead of 233-240)--Latin epilogue, p. 271, by Petrus Rhodonus Peripianensis, dated Mediolani XVI cal. maias, 1556 and referring to Girava's death as having occurred in February 1556.--"Tabla de todas las cosas mas notables ..." 9 p. unnumbered.--"Descuydos en la estampa", 2 p. unnumbered.--Vignette: crescent within circular borders bearing legend "Post tenebras spero lucem", on recto of last leaf, verso blank.

The folded "mappa mundi", reproduced on a much smaller scale from C. Vopell's map, is wanting in the present edition. cf. Nordenskiöld's Facsimile-atlas, pl. 45.

Description of "Indiaò Nvevo mvndo": p. 186-242.

A 2d edition was published in Venice, 1570, under title: La cosmographia, y geographia del s. Hieronimo Girava Tarragones. En la qual se contiene la Descripcion de todo el mundo, y de sus partes, y particularmente de las Yndias, y Tierra nueua. Islas de España, y de las otros partes del mundo; con la nauegacion, longitud, latitud, grandeza, y circuito de todas ellas ... cf. Medina, Bibl. hisp. amer., v. 1.

Master microform held by: GmC.

Microfilm. Cambridge, Mass., General Microfilm Company, 1966. 1 microfilm reel. 35 mm. (Spanish, Portuguese & American books before 1601, roll 29)