The decades of the newe worlde or west India : conteynyng the nauigations and conquestes of the Spanyardes, with the particular description of the moste ryche and large landes and ilandes lately founde in the west ocean perteynyng to the inheritaunce of the kinges of Spayne. ... Wrytten in the Latine tounge by Peter Martyr of Angleria, and translated into Englysshe by Rycharde Eden.

De orbe novo. Decade 1-3. English

Londini : In aedibus Guilhelmi Powell [for Edwarde Sutton], Anno. 1555.

[24], 309, [1], 310-361, [13] leaves : ill. (woodcut) ; (4to)

A translation of decades 1-3 of "De orbe novo", with additions from numerous other sources edited by Eden.

Colophon reads: Imprynted at London in Lumbard streete at the signe of the Cradle by [i.e. for] Edwarde Sutton. ..

With 13 final contents leaves.

The inserted leaf after 309 is a letter from the Emperor of Russia to Edward VI.

One of four variants with different publishers' names in the colophon.

Signatures: [a]⁴ b⁴ a-d⁴ A-4I⁴(+chi4I2) 4K-4Z⁴ 5A⁶.

Signatures from DFo.

Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 1986-1987. Time, the greatest innovator (catalog p. 67)

Pollard, A.W. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English books printed abroad, 1475-1640 (2nd ed.) (STC), 647
English short title catalogue (ESTC), S104405

Great Britain -- England -- London.

STC 647

HH8/5. Bound in brown goatskin with gilt tooling, by Leighton. Unnumbered leaf 4I2 bound after 4I2. Provenance: Harmsworth copy