Americae pars quarta, sive, Insignis & admiranda historia de reperta primùm Occidentalis India à Christophoro Columbo anno M. CCCCXCII
By: scripta ab Hieronymo Bezono ... qui istic an[n]is XIIII. versatus dilige[n]ter omnia observavit ; addita ad singula ferè capita, non contemnenda scholia in quibus agitur de earum etiam gentium idolatria ; accessit praeterea illarum regionum tabula chorographica ; omnia elegantibus figuris in aes incisis expressa à Theodoro de Bry ...
Contributors: Chauveton, Urbain, d. ca. 1616.; Benzoni, Girolamo, b. 1519.; Jay I. Kislak Collection (Library of Congress); Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress); Thomas Jefferson Library Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Typis Ioannis Feyrabend, impensis Theodori de Bry
Published: 1594
Place of publication: Impressum Francofurti ad Moenum
Language: lat
Number of pages: 145
Subjects: America -- Early accounts to 1600; Latin America -- History -- To 1600
Genres: Early accounts to 1600.
Other titles: Americae pars quarta; Insignis & admiranda historia de reperta primùm Occidentalis India à Christophoro Columbo anno M. CCCCXCII; Insignis [et] admiranda historia de reperta primùm Occidentalis India à Christophoro Columbo anno M. CCCCXCII
Work titles: America. Pars 4
Notes: Imprint from colophon.

Signatures: ):( ):(⁴ , ²):( ):(⁴, A-Q⁴ R⁶(-R6), ²A-E⁴ F⁶(-F6).

Engraved t.p.; map on double leaf of plates; repeat of engraved t.p. followed by plates numbered I-XXIIII.

Part IV contains the first part of Girolamo Benzoni's Historia del Mondo Nuovo; the remaining text was published in parts V and VI. De Bry utilized Urbain Chauveton's Latin edition which was first published at Geneva in 1578.

Church, E.D.  Discovery, 153

Rosenwald 1309

Sabin, III, p. 36-37

Sowerby, E.M.  Cat. of the lib. of Thomas Jefferson, 3976