Relations of the most famous kingdomes and common-wealths thorowout the world : discoursing of their situations, religions, manners, customes, strengths, languages, greatnesse and policies ... / translated out of the best Italian impression of Boterus.

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Botero, Giovanni, 1540-1617, Relations of the most famous kingdomes and common-wealths thorowout the world , 1630

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Creator:: Botero, Giovanni, 1540–1617
Title(s):: Relations of the most famous kingdomes and common-wealths thorowout the world : discoursing of their situations, religions, manners, customes, strengths, languages, greatnesse and policies ... / translated out of the best Italian impression of Boterus.
Additional Title(s):: Relationi universali. English
Edition:: And since the last edition by R. I. now once againe inlarged according to moderne observation, with addition of new estates and countries, wherein many of the oversights both of the author and translator are amended, and unto which a mappe of the whole world, with a table of the countries, are now newly added.
Published/Created:: London : Printed by Iohn Haviland, and are to be sold by Iohn Partridge at the signe of the Sunne in Pauls Church-yard., 1630.
Physical Description:: [8], 644, [4] p., [1] folded leaf of plates : map ; 19 cm. (4to)
Holdings:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
G120 B6713 1630
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Copyright Status:: Copyright Not Evaluated
Full Orbis Record:: http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/583278
Classification:: Books
Notes:: Map engraved by Robert Vaughan.
Revised edition of Robert Johnson's translation of: Delle relationi universale, 1st published Rome, 1591-1596. English translation 1st published under title: The travellers breviat. London, 1601.
Includes index.
Initials; head-pieces.
Bibliotheca Americana: catalogue of the John Carter Brown Library in Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, 2:227
European Americana, 630/34
Pollard, A.W. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English books printed abroad, 1475-1640, B-3404
Subject Terms:: America -- Description and travel.
Bradshaw, Thomas -- Autograph.
Geography -- Early works to 1800.
Form/Genre:: Engravings.
Contributors:: Johnson, Robert, active 1586-1626.
Vaughan, Robert, 1600-1666, engraver.
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