I. N. J. Historia navigationis Martini Forbisseri Angli praetoris sive capitanei, A.C. 1577
Subtitle: Majo, junio, julio, augusto & septembri mensibus, jussu reginae Elisabethae, ex Angliâ, in septemtrionis & occidentis tractum susceptae, ephemeridis sive diarii more conscripta & stilo, triennioq[ue]
By: post, ex gallico in latinum sermonem, à Joh. Thoma Freigio translata, & Noribergae, antè A. 94. cum praefatione utili, observationib[us], aliquot & appendice edita, denuò prodit, é muséo D. Capelli P.P.
Contributors: Freig, Johannes Thomas, 1543-1583; Pithou, Nicolas, 1524-1598
Publisher: Sumptibus Joh. Naumanni & Georgi Wolffii
Published: 1675
Place of publication: Hamburgi [Hamburg]
Language: lat
Number of pages: 37
Subjects: Discovery and exploration; British
Other titles: Historia navigationis Martini Forbisseri Angli praetoris sive capitanei, A.C. 1577.
Work titles: True reporte of the laste voyage into the west and northwest regions
Notes: At head of title page: I. N. J.

Reprint of the Latin edition, first printed printed in Nuremberg, 1580 under title: De Martini Forbisseri Angli navigatione in regiones occidentis et septentrionis narratio historica.

Translation, by Johannes Thomas Freig, of: Navigation du Capitaine Frobisher, printed in [Geneva?], 1578, translated by Nicolas Pithou, itself a translation of A true reporte of the laste voyage into the west and northwest regions, &c., 1577, worthily atchieved by Capteine Frobisher of the sayde voyage the first finder and generall, first printed London, 1577.

Includes Latin translation of the preface to the French edition by Nicolas Pithou on p. [11-17], 1st count.

Signatures: A⁴ (-A4) (A1 verso blank) B-G⁴ (B3 missigned A3)

Woodcut printer's ornament on title page; head piece; initials.

Woodcut of an Inuit in a canoe on verso of title page has title: Delinatio hominûm nuper ex Angliâ advectorum, cûm eorûm armis, tentorijs, & naviculis. Fronstispiece also includes a small map of Frobisher's Strait and an illustration of a unicorn.

Church, E.D. Discovery, 638.

JCB Lib. cat.,1675-1700, p. 14.

Alden, J.E. European Americana, 675/157.