Research Catalog

Title

Mundus Nouus

Author

Vespucci, Amerigo, 1451-1512.

Publication

[Augsburg, Johann Otmar, 1504]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Medici, Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco de', 1463-1503.
• Giocondo, Giovanni, approximately 1433-1515.

Description

4 l. diagrs.; 21 cm. (4to.)

Subject

• America > Discovery and exploration
• America > Discovery, Post-Columbian

Note

• Leaf 1b: Albericus vespucius Laurentio / Petri de Medicis salutem plurimam dicit. / ...
• Sometimes wrongly assigned to [Florence? 1503?]
• Signature: [A]⁴.
• Gothic type; 40 lines. With initials; without catchwords, foliation and signature marks.
• Photostat.
• Leaf 8b: ... Ex italica in latinum linguam iocũdus interpres hãc epistolam vertit vt / latini oẽs intelligant q[uam] multa mirãda in dies reperiant[ur] ... / [3 lines] / Laus Deo.
• First issue of the third edition in Latin, according to Sabin.
• An account, possibly not by Vespucci, of his third voyage, which was undertaken in 1501-1502 for the king of Portugal.

Indexed In (note)

• Sabin
• Harrisse BAV
• Vignaud: Vespruce

Call Number

*KB 1504 (Vespucci, A. Mundus Nouus. Augsburg (1st issue of the 3rd ed. in Latin)

OCLC

• 42564815
• 25358854

Author

Vespucci, Amerigo, 1451-1512.

Title

Mundus Nouus /

Imprint

[Augsburg, Johann Otmar, 1504]

Indexed In:

Sabin, 99329

Harrisse BAV 22

Vignaud: Vespruce, 1

Local Note

Copy 2: (Americana series; photostat reprodcutions by the Massachusetts historical society. no. 18).

Copy 2: One of ten photostat copies reproduced from the original in the New York Public Library, June 1920.

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Added Author

Medici, Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco de', 1463-1503.

Giocondo, Giovanni, approximately 1433-1515.

Research Call Number

*KB 1504 (Vespucci, A. Mundus Nouus. Augsburg (1st issue of the 3rd ed. in Latin)