The historie of the West-Indies, containing the acts and adventures of the Spaniards, which have conquered and peopled those countries, inriched with varietie of pleasant relation of the manners, ceremonies, lawes, governments, and warres of the Indians. [By P.M.A.] / Published in Latin by Mr. Hakluyt [in 1587] and translated into English by M. Lok.

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The historie of the West-Indies, containing the acts and adventures of the Spaniards, which have conquered and peopled those countries, inriched with varietie of pleasant relation of the manners, ceremonies, lawes, governments, and warres of the Indians. [By P.M.A.] / Published in Latin by Mr. Hakluyt [in 1587] and translated into English by M. Lok. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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London : Printed for A. Hebb, [1625?]

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2 unnumbered pages, 318 numbered leaves ; (8vo)

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Signatures: [A1], B-Z8, Aa-Sf8
Initials. Marginal notes
Reissue, with new t-p., of "De orbe nouo ... London, T. Adams, 1612", without the "Epistola dedicatoria" (4 p.)--"Hebb, 6 May, 1625, entred for his copies ... of ... bookes ... which did lately belong to master Adams ... His parte of the English viages [by R. Hakluyt.]" cf. Arber, Stat. reg., v. 4, p. 101 (IV. 139)
Decades 1-4 translated by Richard Eden, decades 5-8 by Michael Lok
STC 651.
Copy 1 Note: Imperfect.

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ESTC S100184
STC (2nd ed.), 651

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