Novus Orbis, sive, Descriptio Indiae Occidentalis /

Errata, *4v.Signatures: *⁴ ([3 dots])² A-X⁴ a-b⁴ c² [dagger]-[3 daggers]⁴.Brief vocabulary of language of Solomon Islanders with Latin equivalents, leaves 81v-83r.Added engraved title, 2nd leaf: Descriptio Indiae Occidentalis per Antonium de Herrera. Port. of Le Maire, 5th leaf. Woodcut head- and tail-pieces, initials.Published by Colijn the same year in French and in Dutch. Herrera's work first published Madrid, 1601, in Spanish. It was intended as part of his Historia general de los hechos de los Castellanos en las islas y tierrafirme del mar oceano. The 14 maps that illustrate it were copied from the Madrid ed., while the 3 maps and in-text ill. for Le Maire are taken from De Bry. See Sabin.Descriptio Indiae Occidentalis per Antonium de Herrera -- Ephemerides, sive, Descriptio navigationis australis institutae anno M.D.C.XV. ductu...Iacobi Le Maire -- Brevis narratio omnium, quae per Fretum Magellanicum institutae sunt, navigationum -- Descriptio Indiae Occidentalis...authore Petro Ordonnez de Cavallos -- Brevis ac succincta Americae...descriptio, excerpta è tabulis geographicis P. Bertii.SabinMode of access: Internet.Binding: later vellum, author & title in gilt on spine. Page edges red. The 17 maps are tipped onto stubs at the centerfold.In Library's copy leaves of gathering M bound in the order 2, 1, 4, 3