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Von der neü gefunden Region so wol ein Welt genempt mag werden, durch den criste[n]lichen Künig, von Portigal, wunderbarlich erfunden

by: Vespucci, Amerigo, 1451-1512; Medici, Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco de', 1463-1503

Publication date: 1505

Topics: Imprint 1505

Publisher: [Basel : Michael Furter]

Collection: jcbgerman; JohnCarterBrownLibrary; americana

Contributor: John Carter Brown Library

Language: German

Translation of: Mundus novus / Amerigo Vespucci. [Paris : F. Baligault and J. Lambert, 1503]., itself a translation of the Italian manuscript

First edition in German of the Basel translation as described by Sabin

Publication statement based on Sabin

Signatures: A⁸

Gothic type; 33 lines. Without catchwords or foliation

Woodcut portrait represents Manuel, King of Portugal

JCB Lib. cat., pre-1675

Alden, J.E. European Americana

Sabin

John Carter Brown Library copy 1 was originally thought to be a facsimile but was declared authentic by Wilberforce Eames

John Carter Brown Library copy 2 has hand colored portrait and initials; bound in contemporary vellum; leaf A8 torn and mended