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MARTYR, PETER. [De Novo Orbe, or The Historie of the West Indies.]
[2], 318 numbered leaves, only; lacks the first signature, comprising the front blank, the title, and the two Dedication leaves. 8vo, early calf, worn; rebacked and retipped; first leaf chipped and toned, some scattered light dampstaining; bookplate on the front pastedown (Sir Francis Baring, 18th-century London merchant and director of the East India Company). London, 1612
- Notes: first complete edition in english. "The Decades of Peter Martyr were the first, and for many years the only, history of the New World. Hence its important position in the literature of American history; this being indeed in many respects the sole contemporary source of information concerning the discovery and conquest of America"--Church 358; Alden 612/3; Sabin 1563.
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