Andrew Thevet, The New Found World, or Antarctic (1568)
Full Text
EEBO/TCP
Date
1568
Author
André Thevet (alternate name for Andrew Thevet )
Book title
The New Found Worlde, or Antarctike, wherin is contained wonderful and strange things, as well as humaine creatures, as Beastes, Fishes, Foules, and Serpents, Trees, Plants, Mines of Golde and Siluer: garnished with many learned aucthorities, traualled and written in the French
tong, by that excellent learned man, master Andrewe Thevet.
And now newly translated into Englishe, wherein is reformed the errours of the auncient Cosmographers
Publication place
London
Printer
Henrie Bynneman
Publisher
Thomas Hacket
Transcription source
EEBO/TCP (Huntington Library); British Library G.7107
Text type
printed book
Genre
Treatises
Subject area
- place name
- travel
Summary
Occasional speculation on place names, plants, animals, aboriginal languages in prose that occasionally explains as a word-entry might.
Language
headwords: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
Word-group
type: alphabetical
Word-entry
type: other
sample: THE elders haue called or named a Promentarie, a point of a lande that Iceth out long in the sea, the which may be seene a farre of, and that this day it is called with vs a Cappe, as a thing eminent aboue others, as the heade is aboue the rest of the body? also some will write Promontorium à Prominendo the which to my iudgement is best.
sample: THE elders haue called or named a Promentarie, a point of a lande that Iceth out long in the sea, the which may be seene a farre of, and that this day it is called with vs a Cappe, as a thing eminent aboue others, as the heade is aboue the rest of the body? also some will write Promontorium à Prominendo the which to my iudgement is best.
STC
23950
Sources
- Thevet, André. Les singularitez de la France antarctique, autrement nommé Amerique, et de plusiers terres et isles decouvertes de nostre temps. Anvers: Christophle Plantin, 1558. view record
