The first three English books on America. (?1511)-1555 A.D.
Subtitle: Being chiefly translations, compilation, etc.
By: by Richard Eden ; from the writings, maps, etc., of Pietro Martire, of Anghiera (1455-1526) ; Sebastian Munster, the cosmographe(1489-1552) ; Sebastian Cabot, of Bristol (1474-1557) ; with extracts, etc., from the works of other Spanish, Italian, and German writers of the time ; edited by Edward Arber.
Contributors: Eden, Richard, 1521?-1576.; Anghiera, Pietro Martire d', 1457-1526.; Münster, Sebastian, 1489-1552.
Series: Library of American civilization -- LAC 12134.
Publisher: [s.n.]
Published: 1885
Place of publication: Birmingham
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Number of pages: 408
Subjects: Voyages and travels; America -- Early accounts to 1600
Other titles: Of the newe landes and of ye people founde ...
Notes: With reprints of original title-pages.

Half-title (p. 1-2) : "Richard Eden's contribution to our literature ..."

Preface contains an account of the earliest English voyages to America.

Index of personal names and names of places, chiefly outside Europe.

Microfiche. Chicago : Library Resources,inc., 1970. 1microfiche ; 8 x 13 cm. (Library of American civilization ; LAC 12134)

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Table of contents: title: (cont.) The third English book on America: The decades of the newe worlde or west India, conteynyng the nauigations and conquestes of the Spanyardes, with the particular description of the moste ryche and large landes and Ilandes lately founde in the west Ocean perteynyng to the inheritaunce of the kinges of Spayne ... Wryten in the Latine tounge by Peter Martyr of Angleria, and translated into Englysshe by Rycharde Eden. Londini, In aedibus Guilhelmi Powell. Anno. 1555.