With an account of Hispaniola and Central America
Descriptio Germaniae vtrivsqve tam superioris qu‡m inferioris...
Antverpiae: ex officina Christophori Plantini, 1585. 12mo, pp. 144; woodcut printer's device on title page, largely printed in italic type; contemporary full parchment a bit soiled, else very good. In this volume Plantin has brought together four treatises on the history of the Netherlands: Pirckheimerus's Descriptio Germaniae utriusque (pp. 3-51); Gerardus Noviomagus's Germaniae Inferioris historiae (pp. 53-62); Gerardus Noviomagus's Brevis narratio de origine et sedibus priscorum Francorum (pp. 63-70); and Hubert Thomas's De Turgris et Eburonibus aliisque Inferioris Germaniae (pp. 71-139). This is one of a series of works on the history and geography of the Netherlands that Plantin conceived and inaugurated in 1584. At the end of Pirckheimerus's treatise the author has included an account of Hispaniola and Central America. This copy that of Charles Spencer, Third Earl of Sunderland, lot 9793 in the Sunderland Library sale in 1882. Voet 2057; Alden, European Americana 585/47; Sabin 63019n; not in Adams. Item #26628
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