Description
- Notes:
- Philippo Camerario I.F. iurisconsulto, et Reipub. noricae à consillis, auctore.
- Another edition printed in Altdorf by Christophor Lochner and Johann Hofmann in the same year.
- Includes references to new islands in the West Indies and the swiftness of Indians in chasing down stags. Also includes a citation by Pietro Martire d'Anghiera concerning a place called "Zauana" in "Guaccaiarima" and to "cohoba", a kind of narcotic snuff, from his De orbe novo, first published Alcalà de Hernares, 1516, and references to tobacco cited in Historia del Mondo Nuovo by Girolamo Benzoni, first printed in Venice, 1565.
- Signatures: a-d⁴ (d4 verso blank) A-4D⁴ (4D4 verso blank)
- Includes index.
- Woodcut printer's ornament on title page; head and tail pieces; initials.
- Errata: p. [74], 3rd count.
- Text primarily in Latin with some passages in Greek and Hebrew.
Table of Contents
- Historia del Mondo Nuovo. Latin. Selections:
- De orbe novo. Selections:
Citation
"Operae horarum succisiuarum, sive Meditationes historicae:
Continentes accuratum delectum memorabilium historiarum, & rerum tam veterum, quàm recentium, singulari studio inuicem collatarum, quae omnia lectoribus & uberem admodum fructum, & liberalem pariter oblectationem afferre poterunt. Unà cum indice locupletissimo
"
(1591).
John Carter Brown Library.
Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library.
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