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Title

  • Nuevo mundo : descripcion des las Indias occidentales sacado de differentes Auctores fidedignos y traducido de differentes lenguas en castellana, particularmente de la descripcion de la America por Iuan de Laet con enmiendas y Anididuras y mapas de su explicacion

Other Title

  • Title in Catalogus librorum manuscriptorum in bibliotheca d. Thomae Phillipps: Baltazar Conrado de Nuevo Mundo, or, Description de las Indias Occidentales en Anno 1649
  • De Nuevo Mundo
  • Descripción de las Indias occidentales
  • Description de las Indias Occidentales
  • Baltazar Conrado de Nuevo Mundo, or, Description de las Indias Occidentales en Anno 1649

Names

  • Conrrado, Baltasar, active 1636-1649, author, editor.
  • Laet, Joannes de, 1581-1649, author, cartographer.
  • Del Caretto, Ottone Enrico, marquis of Savona and Grana, 1629-1685, dedicatee.
  • Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872, former owner.
  • Jay I. Kislak Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • Sevilla ; Año, 1649.

Contents

  • Libro primero de las yslas de barlovento -- Libro segundo de la nueva francia -- Libro tercero de la Virginia -- Libro quarto de la florida -- Libro quinto de la Nueva Hispaña -- Libro sexsto de la nueva Galicia, o, Guadalajara -- Libro septimo de Guatemala -- Libro octavo de tierra firme -- Libro nono. del nuevo Reyno de Granada -- Libro decimo del Peru -- Libro undecimo de Chile -- Libro duodecimo. del estrecho Magallanes -- Libro decimotercio del Rio de la Plata -- Libro decimoquarto del Brasil -- Libro decimoquinto de Guiana -- Libro decimosexto. Nueva Andaluzia.

Headings

  • -  America--Discovery and exploration--Sources
  • -  America--Discovery and exploration--Historiography--Early works to 1800
  • -  America--Discovery and exploration--Maps--Early works to 1800
  • -  Florida--Discovery and exploration--Sources

Notes

  • -  Autograph manuscript describing North America, Central and South America, and the Caribbean. Conrrado describes himself as an official of the Inquisition, an honorary officer of the tribunal in Robaina, and translator of reliable works in a variety of languages on the discovery and exploration of the Americas.
  • -  Conrrado drew upon works in Latin, Dutch, Portuguese, Castilian, French and English, as well as letters and pilots' journals, some in manuscript and some published. His work provides a history of Florida and a comprehensive general description of the New World, including detailed information on geography, natural history, agriculture, native customs and historical accounts of voyages and travels.
  • -  The author's chief source was Joannes de Laet's Nouvus Orbis seu descriptionis Indiae occidentalis first published at Leiden in 1625. Conrrado cites the Dutch edition of 1630 and the augmented Latin edition of 1633/1634. Conrrado's book is illustrated with double-page engraved maps by Laet.
  • -  Conrrado's manuscript appears never to have been published.
  • -  "Dirigida al excelentissimo señor Marques del careto y Grana del consejo Re. de estado y embajador exstraordinario de la Magestat cesaria a la catolica ̃"
  • -  Prologue, "Prologo al lector Aficionado y curioso," preliminary pages [3]-[6].
  • -  "Registro de las mappas," list of maps with locations throughout the text, preliminary page [9].
  • -  Title page hand lettered; text in a neat longhand with minimal margins. In iron gall ink on paper. In the main text, leaves are numbered in ink and each folded map is included in the foliation as one leaf. Maps are numbered throughout the book in pencil, 1-14.
  • -  Bound in 17th-century boards with remnants of marbled paper covers; tan calf spine with raised bands and black leather label tooled in gilt: LAS IND. OCCID. POR BALT. CONRADO.
  • -  Title page has a repair in the upper right corner with minimal loss of text, the end of the word traduci[do?].
  • -  Phillipps, T. Catalogus librorum manuscriptorum in bibliotheca d. Thomae Phillipps (1837-1871), item 22369
  • -  The Prologue includes an extensive bibliography. Bibliographical citations are written in margins of some pages of the general text.
  • -  Detailed table of contents, "Tabla de los Capitulas que Contienen los libros de esta descripcion," 12 unnumbered pages at end, includes many subheadings with page numbers.
  • -  According to the bookseller's description, there was formerly a gilt label on spine: From the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps; his shelfmark in pencil on front paste-down: 22369.
  • -  Kislak accession no.: 1992.105.00.0001

Medium

  • 10 unnumbered pages, 410 leaves numbered in manuscript and written on both sides, 14 folded leaves of plates, 12 unnumbered pages : 14 folded engraved maps ; 33 cm

Call Number/Physical Location

  • Kislak MS 1101

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2018657600

Online Format

  • online text
  • pdf
  • image

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Chicago citation style:

Laet, Joannes De, Author, Cartographer, Ottone Enrico Del Caretto, Thomas Phillipps, and Jay I. Kislak Collection. Nuevo mundo: descripcion des las Indias occidentales sacado de differentes Auctores fidedignos y traducido de differentes lenguas en castellana, particularmente de la descripcion de la America por Iuan de Laet con enmiendas y Anididuras y mapas de su explicacion. editeds by Conrrado, Baltasar, Active , Author Sevilla ; Año, 1649. Manuscript/Mixed Material. https://www.loc.gov/item/2018657600/.

APA citation style:

Laet, J. D., Del Caretto, O. E., Phillipps, T. & Jay I. Kislak Collection, Conrrado, B., ed. (1649) Nuevo mundo: descripcion des las Indias occidentales sacado de differentes Auctores fidedignos y traducido de differentes lenguas en castellana, particularmente de la descripcion de la America por Iuan de Laet con enmiendas y Anididuras y mapas de su explicacion. Sevilla ; Año. [Manuscript/Mixed Material] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2018657600/.

MLA citation style:

Laet, Joannes De, Author, Cartographer, et al. Nuevo mundo: descripcion des las Indias occidentales sacado de differentes Auctores fidedignos y traducido de differentes lenguas en castellana, particularmente de la descripcion de la America por Iuan de Laet con enmiendas y Anididuras y mapas de su explicacion. ed by Conrrado, Baltasar, Active , Author Sevilla ; Año, 1649. Manuscript/Mixed Material. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2018657600/>.