The decades of the Newe Worlde or West India, conteynyng the nauigations and conquestes of the Spanyardes, with the particular descripton [sic] of the moste ryche and large landes and ilandes lately founde in the West Ocean perteynyng to the inheritaunce of the kinges of Spayne. : In the which the diligent reader may not only consyder what commoditie may hereby chaunce to the hole Christian world in tyme to come, but also learne many secreates touchynge the lande, the sea, and the starres, very necessarie to be knowe[n] to al such as shal attempte any nauigations, or otherwise haue delite to beholde the strange and woonderfull woorkes of God and nature. (1555)

Anghiera, Pietro Martire d', 1457-1526 · Londini. : In αdibus Guilhelmi Powell [for Edwarde Sutton]. : Imprynted at London in Lumbard streete at the signe of the Cradle by Edwarde Sutton. · leaf 701

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