MARTYR, PETER. The History of Travayle in the West and East Indies, and other countreys lying eyther way, towardes the fruitfull and ryche Moluccas. As Moscovia, Persia, Arabia, Syria, Egypte, Ethiopia, Guinea, China in Cathay and Giapan: With a discourse of the Northwest passage....Gathered in parte, and done into Englyshe by Richarde Eden. Newly set in order, augmented, and finished by Richard Willes. London: by Richarde Iugge 1577. Small 4to, 182 x 127 mm. (7 3/16 x 5 in.), nineteenth-century diced russia gilt, g.e. by F. Bedford, upper joint repaired, lower cover detached, small hole in Aa8 catching four words, Hh2 stained, two small tears in title neatly mended, a few outer blank margins with slight repair, some old staining. Second Edition of The Decades of the newe worlde (1555) with additions and omissions, black letter, ornamental woodcut initials, one woodcut diagram. Alden 577/2; Borba de Moraes [1983], pp. 532-3; Church 119; Hill, pp. 92-93; STC 649; Sabin 1562; Streeter sale I, 24.

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MARTYR, PETER. The History of Travayle in the West and East Indies, and other countreys lying eyther way, towardes the fruitfull and ryche Moluccas. As Moscovia, Persia, Arabia, Syria, Egypte, Ethiopia, Guinea, China in Cathay and Giapan: With a discourse of the Northwest passage....Gathered in parte, and done into Englyshe by Richarde Eden. Newly set in order, augmented, and finished by Richard Willes. London: by Richarde Iugge 1577. Small 4to, 182 x 127 mm. (7 3/16 x 5 in.), nineteenth-century diced russia gilt, g.e. by F. Bedford, upper joint repaired, lower cover detached, small hole in Aa8 catching four words, Hh2 stained, two small tears in title neatly mended, a few outer blank margins with slight repair, some old staining. Second Edition of The Decades of the newe worlde (1555) with additions and omissions, black letter, ornamental woodcut initials, one woodcut diagram. Alden 577/2; Borba de Moraes [1983], pp. 532-3; Church 119; Hill, pp. 92-93; STC 649; Sabin 1562; Streeter sale I, 24.

"Peter Martyr, the first historian of America, was a friend and contemporary of Christopher Columbus, Vasco da Gama, Hernando Cortés, Ferdinand Magellan, Sebastian Cabot, and Amerigo Vespucci....Richard Eden was the first Englishman who undertook to publish learned and accurate collected voyages of the age of exploration." -- Hill. This expanded edition contains much new material on Asia: Pereira's description of China (the first account in English), Varthema's travels, Maffei's account of Japan, and various narratives of English travellers in Russia and Central Asia.

Provenance: Henry (or Alfred Henry) Huth, bookplate.