Americæ pars quinta
Subtitle: Nobilis & admiratione plena Hieronymi Bezoni mediolanensis, secundæ sectionis Hia: Hispanorum, tùm in Nigrittas seruos suos, tùm in Indos crudelitatem, Gallorumque piratarū de Hispanis toties reportata spolia ; adventū item Hispanorū in Novam Indiæ continentis Hispaniam, eorumque contra incolas eius regionis sævitiam explicans. Addita ad singula eius regionis capita scholia, in quibus res Indiæ luculenter exponuntur. Accessit præterea tabula chorographica Novæ Hispaniæ in India Occidentali. Ad invictis Rvdolph. II. Omnia figuris in æs incisis expressa à Theodore de Bry
Contributors: Chauveton, Urbain, active 16th century, ed. and tr; Benzoni, Girolamo, 1519-
Series: Bry, Theodor de, 1528-1598. India Occidentalis -- V; German books before 1601 -- roll 78, item 1
Published: 1595
Place of publication: Francoforti]
Language: lat
Number of pages: 92
Subjects: Maps; Early works to 1800; Early works to 1600; History; Discovery and exploration
Work titles: America Pt. 5.
Notes: Signatures: a-l⁴ (C², D¹, E² signed with upper case letters, k₂ signed k₃, l₃₋₄ blank), A-F⁴ (F⁴ blank)

Pages 26, 74, 79-82 numbered 29, 24 and 89-92 respectively.

Head and tail pieces; initials.

Engraved title page repeated before plates: verso blank: "Præfatio" contains portrait of Columbus with 11 lines of text (p. 1): "Secvndi libri svmma et argvmentvm" (p. 3): "Novae novi orbis historiae liber secundvs" (5-92 i.e. 5-82 p.)

Translated by Urbain Chauveton from bk. 2. of Benzoni's Historia del Mondo Nuovo published at Venice in 1565.

First ed., 1st issue. Cf. Church. Cat. of books relating to ... America, 156; t.p. of plates of 2d ed. (Church, 157)

Map has title: Hispaniae novae sive Magnae, recens et vora descriptio 1595.

Modern binding by Sangorski & Sutcliffe for Henry Stevens, Son & Stiles, London.