COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Books Internet Archive
Record
Author:
Thevet, André, 1502-1590.
Author (contributor):
Horne, W.
Author (contributor):
Hacket, Thomas, active 1560-1590.
Title:
The new found vvorlde, or Antarctike, : wherein is contained wo[n]derful and strange things, as well of humaine creatures, as beastes, fishes, and serpents, trées, plants, mines of golde and siluer: garnished with many learned aucthorities, /
Publisher:
And are to be sold at his shop in Poules Churchyard at the signe of the key; By Henrie Bynneman for Thomas Hacket
Begin Publication Date:
1568
MMS Id (Alma identifier):
991008841679706966
Permanent Call Number:
E568 .T416n
Statistics Note 1 (Accession Number):
Accession number: 0660
Subjects:
Indians--America.
Subjects:
Voyages and travels.
Subjects:
America--Description and travel.
Subjects:
America--Discovery and exploration.
Subjects:
Africa--Description and travel.
Subjects:
Imprint 1568.
General Note:
Colophon reads: Imprinted at London, in Knight-Rider Strete, by Henry Bynneman, for Thomas Hacket 1568.; Translation, by Thomas Hacket, of: Les singularitez de la France Antarctique, autrement nommée Amérique, first printed in Paris, 1557.; Translator's dedication, leaves [1-3], 1st count, signed: Thomas Hacket; Signatures: *⁴ (*1 verso blank) A⁴ B-S⁸ (Qii missihned Qiij) T⁴ (T4 verso blank).; Church, in his collation for this work, states that leaves Liiij and Tii are unsigned. This variant has leaves Liiij and Tii signed.; Errors in foliation: leaves 39, 43, 67, 69, 103, 120 are numbered 32, 36, 69, 77, 74, 102 respectively.; Title printed within ornamental woodcut border; initials.
Local Note:
John Carter Brown Library copy has engraved frontispiece plate of "Idols of Campeche & Yucatan" not intended to be included in this work; Includes a woodcut portrait of André Thevet pasted on to foot of leaf [3] verso, 1st count.; John Carter Brown Library copy bound in later gold and blind-tooled calf.; Provenance of the John Carter Brown Library copy: W. Horne: contemporary autograph on title page.