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EARLY HISTORY OF MILITARY, WAR AND WEAPONRY. Imagine holding history in your hands. Now you can. Digitally preserved and previously accessible only through libraries as Early English Books Online, this rare material is now available in single print editions. Thousands of books written between 1475 and 1700 can be delivered to your doorstep in individual volumes of high quality historical reproductions. Any professional or amateur student of war will thrill at the untold riches in this collection of battle theory and practice in the early Western World. The Age of Discovery and Enlightenment was also a time of great political and religious unrest, revealed in accounts of conflicts such as the Wars of the Roses. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++"The famous historie of the Indies declaring the aduentures of the Spaniards, which haue conquered these countries, with varietie of relations of the religions, lawes, gouernments, manners, ceremonies, customes, rites"De orbe novo.Anghiera, Pietro Martire d', 1467-1526.Hakluyt, Richard, 1552?-1616.Lok, Michael, b. 1531 or 2.[Edition statement: ] The second edition.L.M. = Michael Lok, the translator of decads 4-8.Decades 1-3 were translated by Richard Eden.Translation from Richard Hakluylt's 1577 edition of: De orbe novo.Printer's name from STC.A reissue of the 1612 edition, with the first gathering cancelled and a new title page.[3], 318 leavesLondon: Printed [by Thomas Dawson] for Michael Sparke dwelling at the signe of the blue Bible in Green-Arbor, STC (2nd ed.) / 652EnglishReproduction of the original in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery++++This book represents an authentic reproduction of the text as printed by the original publisher. While we have attempted to accurately maintain the integrity of the original work, there are sometimes problems with the original work or the micro-film from which the books were digitized. This can result in errors in reproduction. Possible imperfections include missing and blurred pages, poor pictures, markings and other reproduction issues beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving and promoting the world's literature.
