The decades of the Newe Worlde or West India
Subtitle: 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 : in the which the diligent reader may not only consyder what commoditie may hereby chaunce to the hole Christian world in tyme to come, but also learne many secreates touchynge the lande, sea, and the starres, very necessarie to be know[n]e to al such as shal attempte any nauigations or otherwise haue delite to beholde the strange and woonderfull woorkes of God and nature
By: wrytten in the Latine tounge by Peter Martyr of Angleria ; and translated into Englysshe by Rycharde Eden.
Contributors: Eden, Richard, 1521?-1576.; Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés, Gonzalo, 1478-1557.; Maximilian, of Transylvania, fl. 1522.; Pigafetta, Antonio, ca. 1480-ca. 1534.; López de Gómara, Francisco, 1511-1564.; Vespucci, Amerigo, 1451-1512.; Ziegler, Jacob, 1480-1549.; Biringucci, Vannoccio, 1480-1539?; Powell, William, fl. 1547-1570, printer.; Catholic Church. Pope (1492-1503 : Alexander VI),; England and Wales. Sovereign (1547-1553 : Edward VI).; Russia. Sovereign (1533-1584 : Ivan IV).; English Printing Collection (Library of Congress); John Boyd Thacher Collection (Library of Congress); Jay I. Kislak Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: In aedibus Guilhelmi Powell
Published: 1555
Place of publication: Londini
Language: eng
Number of pages: 361
Subjects: Voyages and travels -- Early works to 1800.; America -- Early accounts to 1600.; America -- Discovery and exploration -- Early works to 1800.
Genres: Early works to 1800.; Early accounts to 1600.
Work titles: De orbe novo. Decas 1-3.
Notes: Includes the first three decades or books of Anghiera's De orbe novo, and excerpts translated from G.F. de Ovieda y Valdés, A. Pigafetta, and others.

Colophon: Imprynted at London ... by Rycharde Jug ..."

Signatures: pi ⁴ b⁴ a⁴ ²b⁴ c-d⁴ A-4H⁴ 4I⁴(4I2+'Iiii.ii.') 4K-4Z⁴ 5A⁶.

STC (2nd ed.) 645

Sabin 1561

Thacher, II, p. 14-15 (Americana)
Table of contents: title: (from captions): The epistle of Peter Martyr; title: Exemplar bullae seu donationis ... = The coppie of the Bull or donation, by th [sic] autoritie whe[r]eof, Pope Alexander the syxte ...; title: The epistle of Maximilian Transiluane ...; title: A briefe declaration of the vyage [sic] or nauigation made abowte the worlde ... / by master Antonie Pygafetta ...; title: The debate and stryfe betwene the Spanyardes and Portugales ... / wrytten in the Spanyshe toonge by Francisco Lopez de Gomara; title: Of the pole Antartike and the starres abowte the same ... / [Amerigo Vespucci]; title: Of the north regions and of the moderate and continuall heate in coulde regions as well in the nyght as in the day in soomer season ... / [Jacob Ziegler]; title: Exemplar epistolae seu literarum missiuarum quas illustrissimus Princeps Edvvardus, eius nominis sextus ...; title: The coppie of the Duke of Moscouie and Emperour of Russia his letters, sent to Kinge Edwarde the Syxte; title: Of the generation of metalles and their mynes with the maner of fynding the same /  written in the Italien tounge by Vannuccius Biringuczius in his booke cauled Pyrotechnis ...