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Year:: 1671
Contributor:: Montanus, Arnoldus, 1625?-1683; Ogilby, John, 1600-1676; Middleton, John.; Underwood, John; Brown University
Subject:: n------ > s------; Indian linguistics > Tupi language; Indian linguistics > Mapuche language; America > Discovery and exploration; England > London
Extent:: [8], 674, [2] p. , [58] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., maps, ports. ; 41 cm. (fol.)

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Notes:: Collected from most authentick authors, augmented with later observation, and adorn'd with maps and sculptures, by John Ogilby Esq; ..; Author assignment according to Sabin, Arents and Paltsits.; Translation, by John Ogilby, of: De Nieuwe en onbekende Weereld: of Beschryving van America en 't Zuid-Land. Amsterdam, 1671.; Originally published London, 1670 [i.e. 1671]; Edited by John Ogilby.; Second, third and fourth issues, all dated 1671, with Ogilby as printer, and the plate "Nova Virginiæ tabula," facing p. 192, hand corrected to read: Terræ-Mariæ nova et Virginiæ tabula.; The second issue includes the plates "Arx Carolina" (facing p. 205) and "Virginiæ pars australis & Florida" (facing p. 213), but the plate on Barbados (facing p. 377) is not listed in the index of plates on p. [1], 3rd count. The folded map of America (facing p. 1, 2nd count) is signed: per Johanem Ogiluium. F. Lamb sculp., and the text illustrations on p. 442 and 452 respectively are the correct ones.; The third issue lacks the plates "Arx Carolina" and "Virginiæ pars australis & Florida", i.e. there are only 56 leaves of plates (including the frontispiece). The two plates are not listed in the index of plates on p. [1], 3rd count, but instead the map of Barbados (facing p. 377) is included. The folded map of America (facing p. 1, 2nd count) is signed: per Fredericum de Witt Amstelodami. F.de Wit excudit, and the text illustrations on p. 442 and 452 are interchanged.; The fourth issue lacks the text illustration on p. 200, i.e. there are only 65 text illustrations, and the text of p. 197-200 has been recomposed, in larger type, to fill the gap.; Signatures: A-K (K1 signed as: K[dagger]) L-X Y Z-3O 3P (in the third issue: ±3P4; in the fourth issue: ±X3.4; A1 verso, A4 verso, 3L5 verso, 3P4 verso blank); Numerous errors in paging.; Plates and text illustrations (66; 65 in fourth issue) unnumbered.; Includes index.; "An appendix, containing partly a farther prosecution of the descriptions of some provinces already treated of in the foregoing book, partly an account of some other discoveries than what have hitherto been deliver'd in any description of the New World." (p. 631-674); Contains scattered words and phrases in Tupi and Mapuche.

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"America: being the latest, and most accurate description of the Nevv VVorld: containing the original of the inhabitants, and the remarkable voyages thither. The conquest of the vast empires of Mexico and Peru, and other large provinces and territories, with the several European plantations in those parts. Also their cities, fortresses, towns, temples, mountains, and rivers. Their habits, customs, manners, and religions. Their plants, beasts, birds, and serpents. With an appendix, containing, besides several other considerable additions, a brief survey of what hath been discover'd of the unknown South-Land and the Arctick region " (1671). John Carter Brown Library. Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library. https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:577024/

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