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Virgules replaced by commas in title page transcription.
Constitutes the second part of Theodor de Bry's Small voyages, printed in 13 parts and an Appendix in Frankfurt am Main and Oppenheim from 1597 to 1633.
This work has been identified as the second German edition of part two of the Small voyages by Church.
Translation of selections of: Itinerario, voyage ofte schipvaert, van Ian Huygen van Linschoten naer Oost ofte Portugaels Indien / by Jan Huygen van Linschoten, first printed Amsterdam, 1596.
First German edition printed in 1598.
This part contains the relation of the voyages of Jan Huygen van Linschoten to Africa and the East Indies from 1583-1592. The work was first printed in Holland in 1596, and was first translated into German by the de Brys in 1598 and afterwards by them into Latin. This part, translated by Anneaus Lonicerus, contains the first forty-four chapters. Cf. Church.
"Folgen hernacher eigentliche vnd warhaffte Fürbildungen aller frembden Völcker in Orient, so von dem anfang Africae biss in China an den Gestaden des Meers wohnen, sampt derselben vnd anderer Insulanern Ceremonien vnd Sitten, auch wie die Portugaleser sampt ihren Weibern vnd Sclauen sich allda verhalten. Beneben warhaffter Beschreibung vnd Erklärung der Bildnussen, so vnder jede Figur ordentlichen gesetzt. Alles zierlich in schönen Kupfferstücken fürgebildet, vnd jetzo von newem an Tag geben, durch Hans Dietherich vnd Hans Israel von Bry, Gebrüder vnd Bürger zu Franckfurt", p. [7], 3rd count, has separate title page with imprint: Gedruckt zu Franckfurt am Meyn, durch Erasmum Kempffer, M DC. XIII. [1613]
Signatures: pi² (pi1 verso blank) A-R⁴ (R4 missigned R3) chi² (chi2 verso blank) a1 (a1 verso blank)
Errors in paging: p. 39 and 40 are misnumbered 37 and 38 respectively.
Includes index.
Fully engraved and illustrated title page; engraved head and tail pieces; initials.
Contains 1 double plate, 2 double folded maps, and 1 plate of coins in the 2nd count; 38 numbered leaves of plates (of which no. 37 is a double folded plate), are printed on recto only and are signed a2-k4 following separate dated title page, p. [7-8], 3rd count.
Church, E.D. Discovery, no. 229.
JCB Lib. cat., pre-1675, I: p. 424-425.
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