Selectae antiquitatis libri XII
Subtitle: De gestis primaevis, item de origine gentium nationùmque migrationibus, atqua praecipuis nostratium dilocationibus, ex sacrae scripturae, aliorumque gravissimorum autorum monumentis collecti; indice quoque sufficiente adimpleti
By: à Christophoro Philippo de Waldenfels
Publisher: Sumtibus Wolgangi Mauritii Endteri & Johannis Andreae Endteri, haeredum
Published: 1677
Place of publication: Norimbergae [Nuremberg]
Language: lat
Number of pages: 480
Subjects: Ethnology; Ethnology in the Bible; Indians of the West Indies; Jews; Migrations; Ophir; Description and travel
Notes: "Annotata, quae ita restituenda": p. [46], 3rd count.

Includes references to the habitation of the West Indies, the movement of the Japhetic peoples to America via the Anian Strait, Ferdinand Magellan, Christopher Columbus, Sir Francis Drake, and Peru as the location of the Biblical port of Ophir.

Signatures: ):(⁴ ):():(⁴ A-3T⁴ 3U⁴ (-3U4)

Includes index.

Title page printed in red and black; engraved head pieces; initials.

JCB Lib. cat., 1675-1700, p. 45.

Alden, J.E. European Americana, 677/198.