Historie vniuerselle de Indes occidentales et orientales, et de la conuersion des Indiens
Subtitle: diuisee en trois parties
By: par Corneille VVytfliet, & Anthoine Magin, & autres historiens. ; premiere [-la troisiesme] partie
Contributors: Magini, Giovanni Antonio, 1555-1617
Publisher: Chez François Fabri
Published: 1611
Place of publication: Douay
Language: fre
Subjects: Early maps; Maps; Discovery and exploration; Portuguese; Description and travel
Other titles: Suite de l'histoire des Indes orientales.
Work titles: Descriptionis Ptolemaicae Augmentum
Notes: Titles within engraved historiated borders displaying the coat of arms of Philip III of Spain.

The first part is a translation of: Descriptionis Ptolemaicae augmentum / Cornelius Wytfliet. Louvain : Johannes Bogardus, 1597; --cf. BRown, J.C. Bibl. amer., v.1, p. 430, v. 2, p. 23. first published in French : 1605. The second part has a title page which reads: Histoire universelle des Indes orientales ... par Antoine Magin. First published: 1605. The third part has a title page which reads: La suite de l'histoire des Indes orientales. De la conversion des Indiens. First published together with parts one and two: 1607.

Signatures: pi (pi12*) A-N O A; [dagger] ([dagger]1*) a-h I1; pi1 A B-F G H1 (Numerous leaves missigned).

Each part has separate pagination; numerous errors in pagination.

Title page borders are re-engravings of that used in the 1597 edition of Wytfliet's Descriptionis Ptolemaicae augmentum.

Includes index.

JCB Lib. Cat., pre-1675, 2: 80

Alden, J.E.  European Americana, 611/117

Sabin, J. Dictionary of books relating to America from its discovery to the present time, 105701

PBSA 76 (1982) p. 63-73