Brevis & admiranda descriptio Regni Guianae, auri abundantissimi, in America, seu Novo Orbe, sub linea aequinoctilia siti: Quod nuper admodum, annis nimirum 1564 [sic]. 1595 & 1596. Per generosum dominum Dn. Gualtherum Ralegh Equitem Anglum detectum est: paulò post jussu ejus duobus libellis comprehensa: ex quibus Iodocus Hondius tabulam geographicam adornavit, addita explicatione Belgico sermone scripta: nunc verò in Latinum sermonem translata, & ex variis authoribus hinc inde declarata.
Nuremberg: Christoph Lochner for Levinus Hulsius, 1599.
Price: $18,500.00
Rebound in the 20th c. using early parchment, with ms. title on spine. Contents in very good condition, complete with all 6 plates and the map. A light stain in the outer margin carefully cleaned, with resulting stiffness to the fore-edge. A few small chips to the margin, outer blank...