COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Books Internet Archive
Record
Author:
Settle, Dionyse.
Author (contributor):
German Americana Digitization Project (John Carter Brown Library)
Author (contributor):
Pithou, Nicolas, 1524-1598.
Author (contributor):
Freig, Johannes Thomas, 1543-1583.
Title:
I. N. J. Historia navigationis Martini Forbisseri Angli praetoris sive capitanei, A.C. 1577. : Majo, junio, julio, augusto & septembri mensibus, jussu reginae Elisabethae, ex Angliâ, in septemtrionis & occidentis tractum susceptae, ephemeridis sive diarii more conscripta & stilo, triennioq[ue] /
Publisher:
Sumptibus Joh Naumanni & Georgi Wolffii
Begin Publication Date:
1675
MMS Id (Alma identifier):
991018656259706966
Permanent Call Number:
D675 .S495h
Statistics Note 1 (Accession Number):
STAT_NOTE_1_ACCESSION #: 01534
Subjects:
Frobisher, Martin,--Sir,--approximately 1535-1594.
Subjects:
America--Discovery and exploration--British.
Subjects:
Arctic regions--Discovery and exploration--British.
Subjects:
Northwest Passage.
Subjects:
Imprint 1675.
General Note:
At head of title page: I. N. J.; Reprint of the Latin edition, first printed printed in Nuremberg, 1580 under title: De Martini Forbisseri Angli navigatione in regiones occidentis et septentrionis narratio historica.; Translation, by Johannes Thomas Freig, of: Navigation du Capitaine Frobisher, printed in [Geneva?], 1578, translated by Nicolas Pithou, itself a translation of A true reporte of the laste voyage into the west and northwest regions, &c., 1577, worthily atchieved by Capteine Frobisher of the sayde voyage the first finder and generall, first printed London, 1577.; Includes Latin translation of the preface to the French edition by Nicolas Pithou on p. [11-17], 1st count.; Signatures: A⁴ (-A4) (A1 verso blank) B-G⁴ (B3 missigned A3); Woodcut printer's ornament on title page; head piece; initials.; Woodcut of an Inuit in a canoe on verso of title page has title: Delinatio hominûm nuper ex Angliâ advectorum, cûm eorûm armis, tentorijs, & naviculis. Fronstispiece also includes a small map of Frobisher's Strait and an illustration of a unicorn.