Virgules replaced by commas in title page transcription.

This work has been identified as the second edition of part six by Church.

Constitutes the sixth part of Sammlung von sechs und zwanzig Schiffahrten in verschiedene fremde Länder durch Levinus Hulsius und einige Andere, aus dem Holländischen ins Deutsche übersetzt und mit allerhand Anmerrkungen versehen, compiled by Levinus Hulsius, and printed in 26 parts in Nuremberg, Frankfurt am Main, Oppenheim, and Hanau from 1598 to 1663.

First edition printed in Nuremberg, 1603 under title: Sechste Theil, kurtze, warhafftige Relation und Beschreibung der wunderbarsten vier Schiffarten, so jemals verricht worden.

Accounts of the four voyages around the world by Magellan, Drake, Cavendish, and Van Noort. Cf. Church.

Signatures: A-G⁴ (A1 verso blank) H² (H2 verso blank)

Engraved vignette of a sailing ship with small protraits of Magellan, Drake, Elcano, and Noort; head and tail pieces; initials.

Church, E.D. Discovery, no. 283.

Baginsky, P. German works relating to America, 145.

JCB Lib. cat., pre-1675, I: p. 459.

Alden, J.E. European Americana, 618/60.

John Carter Brown Library copy imperfect: some leaves have had ink bleed through to versos of plates or pages before and after, somewhat affecting text.