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A20032 The decades of the newe worlde or west India conteynyng the nauigations and conquestes of the Spanyardes, with the particular description of the moste ryche and large landes and ilandes lately founde in the west ocean perteynyng to the inheritaunce of the kinges of Spayne. ... Wrytten in the Latine tounge by Peter Martyr of Angleria, and translated into Englysshe by Rycharde Eden.; De orbe novo. Decade 1-3. English Anghiera, Pietro Martire d', 1457-1526.; Eden, Richard, 1521?-1576. 1555 (1555) STC 647; ESTC S104405 685,206 801

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