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Author/Creator:Vespucci, Amerigo, 1451-1512.
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Title:Mundus nouus [electronic resource] / [by Amerigo Vespucci].
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Published/Created:Boston : Massachusetts Historical Society, 1923.
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Physical Description:[10] p. : ill., facsims. ;
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Links:Online text
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Local Notes:Access is available to the Yale community.
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Notes:Black letter. Initials.
Collation of original: 4 leaves. No signature-marks.
Astronomical diagrams on pages 5, 6, and 7.
At head of text (leaf 1[superscript v]): Albericus Vespucius Laurentio Petri de Medicis salutem plurimam dicit.
At end: Ex italica in latinam linguam Iocundus interpres hanc epistol[am] vertit vt latini o[em]s intelligant [quum] multa miranda in dies reperiantur [et] eorum comprimatur audatia q[ui] celum [et] maiestatem scrutari: [et] plus sapere [quum] liceat sapere volunt: quando a t[an]to tempore quo m[un]dus cepit ignota sit vastitas terre [et] que contineantur in ea. Laus Deo.
For place and date of publication, and description cf. Church catalogue, no. 19; also Harrisse, Bib. amer. vetus. Additions, no. 14; John Carter Brown Library catalogue, 1919, v. 1, p. 39-40 and Sabin, v. 26, p. 439-440.
Originally published: [Venice?, 1504?].
Reproduction of original from The American Antiquarian Society.
Sabin no. 99328.
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- Format:Book
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Series:Americana series : photostat reproductions by the Massachusetts Historical Society ; no. 99
Americana series (Massachusetts Historical Society) ; no. 99.
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Subjects:America--Discovery and exploration--Early works to 1800.
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Also listed under:Giocondo, Giovanni, approximately 1433-1515.
Link to this page: https://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/11449591