Histoire vniverselle des Indes Occidentales
Subtitle: diuisée en duex liures
By: faicte en latin par monsieur Wytfliet: nouuellement traduicte: où il est traicté de leur decouuverte, description, & conqueste faicte tant par les Castillans que Portugais, ensemble de leurs mœurs, religion, gouuernemens, & loix.
Contributors: Magini, Giovanni Antonio, 1555-1617.
Publisher: F. Fabri
Published: 1607
Place of publication: Dovay
Language: fre; lat
Subjects: Early maps.; America -- Early accounts to 1600.; America -- Maps.; America -- Discovery and exploration -- Early works to 1800.; East Indies -- Discovery and exploration -- Portuguese -- Early works to 1800.
Genres: Early works to 1800.
Notes: For full description see Catalogue of the John Carter Brown library, v. 2, p. 48-49.
Each part has separate paging and special t.-p.
Titles within engraved historiated borders displaying the coat of arms of Philip III of Spain.
Publisher's device and colophon on last page.
The first part is a translation ot Wytfliet's Descriptionis Ptolemaicæ avgmentvm, of which the first edition appeared at Louvain in 1597. cf. Brown, J. C., Bibl. amer., v. 1, p. 430, v. 2., p. 23.
Table of contents: title: [pt.1] Histoire vniverselle des Indes Occidentales, diuisée en deux liures, faicte en latin par monsieur Wytfliet.; title: [pt.2] Histoire vniverselle des Indes Orientales, diuisée en deux liures, faicte en latin par Antoine Magin.; title: [pt.3] La svite de l'Histoire des Indes Orientales, De la conversion des Indiens.