Libro de grandezas y cosas memorables de España
By: agora de nueuo fecho y copilado por el Maestro Pedro de Medina, vezino de Seuilla. Dirigido al serenissimo y muy escrarecido señor don Felipe Principe de España &c.nuestro señor. M.D. xlix..
Publisher: e[n] casa d[e] Dominico de Robertis q[ue] santa gl[or]ia aya.
Published: 1549
Place of publication: Fue examinado por ma]n]dado de los muy reuerendos señores Inquisidores de Seuilla & impresso co[n] su lice]n]cia e[n] la dicha ciudad
Language: spa
Number of pages: 10
Subjects: History; Gazetteers
Other titles: Libro d[e] gra[n]dezas y cosas memorables de España
Notes: Imprint from colophon.

Half-title, with woodcut map of Spain, Portugal, the Balearic Islands, and part of North Africa, is printed in red and black and has title: Libro d[e] gra[n]dezas y cosas memorables de España..

Title page has large woodcut royal arms of Spain.

First printed in Alcalá de Henares in 1548.

History and gazetteer of Spain and provinces and / or kingdoms of Andalucia, Lusitania [Portugal], Extremadura, Castille and Leon, Galicia, Vizcaya, Navarre [modern day Andorra], Granada, Aragon, and Catalunya.

Signatures: *¹⁰ (*1, *2 versos blank) a-y⁸ z⁶ &⁴.

Includes index.

Title printed within single line border; woodcut initials.

Contains many in-text woodcut illustrations of walled cities, cities along the courses of rivers, a compass rose, and

Medina, J.T. Biblioteca hispano-americana (1493-1810), 138

Harrisse, H. Bibliotheca americana vetustissima (additions), 165

Palau y Dulcet, A. Manual del librero hispano-americano (2. ed.), 159684n

Bibliotheca Americana: catalogue of the John Carter Brown Library in Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, I: page 157

European Americana, 549/22

Purchase; 1910; 6523.