The History of trauayle in the VVest and East Indies
Subtitle: and other countreys lying eyther way towardes the fruitfull and ryche Moluccaes. As Moscouia, Persia, Arabia, Syria, Aegypte, Ethiopia, Guinea, China in Cathayo, and Giapan: VVith a discourse of the Northwest passage. In the hande of our Lorde be all the corners of the earth. Psal. 94
By: gathered in parte, and done into Englyshe by Richarde Eden. Newly set in order, augmented, and finished by Richarde VVilles
Contributors: Eden, Richard, 1521?-1576, ed; Willes, Richard, active 1558-1573, ed; Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés, Gonzalo, 1478-1557; Pigafetta, Antonio, approximately 1480-approximately 1534; Münster, Sebastian, 1489-1552; Gastaldi, Giacomo, ca. 1500-ca. 1565; Jugge, Richard, approximately 1514-1577, printer
Publisher: By Richarde Iugge.
Published: 1577
Place of publication: Imprinted at London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 466
Subjects: Early works to 1800; Voyages and travels; Discovery and exploration; Description and travel; Indians; Jesuits
Other titles: History of trauayle in the West and East Indies; History of travayle in the West and East Indies
Work titles: De orbe novo
Notes: Signatures: 4to: (.)⁴ [fleuron]⁶ A-B⁴ C-3O⁸ [$4 (-[fleuron]4, B4, 2T4) signed (missigning [fleuron]3 as [caput]3, 2G1 as G1, 2O4 as O4, 2X2 as 2Y2, 3O2 as O2)]; 482 leaves: [10] 1-466 [6] (misprinting 24 as 42, 27 as 29, 29 as 27, 90 as 84, 96 as 86, 99 as 96, 127 as 128, 131 as 139, 132 as 133, 133 as 141, 155-156 as 148-149, 218 as 128, 234 as 233, 235 as 237, 251 as 253, 261 as 254, 262 as 254, 271 as 274, 272 as 274, 320 as 400, 398 as 397, 399 as 398, 400 as 399, 401 as 408, 402 as 409, 403 as 402, 404 as 403, 405 as 404, 406 as 405, 407 as 414, 408 as 415, 409 as 409, 410 as 410, 411 as 410, 412 as 411, 413 as 412, 432 as 431, 463 as 436).

Printed in black letter; initials; marginal references.

Originally published in 1555.

Errata: leaves [1-3] at the end.

Includes the 1st three Decades of P. Martyr d'Anghiera, Pope Alexander VI's Demarcation Bull of 1493, Oviedo's History of the West Indies, Pigaffetta's circumnavigation account, 'The stryfe betwene the Spanyards and Portugales' from Gomara, an abridgement of Anghiera's 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th decades, etc.

Eden's "Decades of the newe worlde", 1555, rearranged, some parts omitted, and a number of translations added.

Woodcut of polar stars verso of leaf 436.

Brown Univ. JCB library catalogue, 1:266.

Alden, J.E. European Americana, 577/2.