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Author

Arber, Edward, 1836-1912.

Title The first three English books on America. (?1511)-1555 A.D. [microform] : Being chiefly translations, compilation, etc. / by Richard Eden ; from the writings, maps, etc., of Pietro Martire, of Anghiera (1455-1526) ; Sebastian Munster, the cosmographer (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.

Imprint

Birmingham : [s.n.], 1885 (Edinburgh : Turnbull & Spears)

Copies

Location	Call No.	OPAC Message	Status
Axe Basement Library of American Civilization Microfiche Cabinets	LAC 12134	---	Available

Description	xlviii, 408 p.
Series	Library of American civilization ; LAC 12134
Note	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.
Contents	(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.
Reproduction	Microfiche. Chicago : Library Resources,inc., 1970. 1microfiche ; 8 x 13 cm. (Library of American civilization ; LAC 12134)
Subject	Voyages and travels.
	America -- Early accounts to 1600.
Added Author	Eden, Richard, 1521?-1576.
	Anghiera, Pietro Martire d', 1457-1526.
	Munster, Sebastian, 1489-1552.
Added Title	Of the newe landes and of ye people founde ...