Actual date of printing taken from title page to plates on p.[3-4], 3rd count.

Constitutes the second part, only issue of the second Latin edition of Theodor de Bry's Great voyages, printed in fourteen parts, in Latin, German, French, and English, in Frankfurt am Main, Oppenheim, and Hanau from 1590-1644, and the Elenchus, an outline of the thirteen Latin parts, published by Matthias Merian in Frankfurt am Main in 1634.

This work had been identified as the second part, only issue of the second Latin edition of the Great voyages by Church.

The first and second editions of Latin part two can be identified by the letterpress text printed below illustrations on the plates, the addition of additional text on p. [9-16], 1st count, the lack of an errata leaf, and leaf K2 properly signed. Please see Church for a full accounting.

First edition of part two printed in Frankfurt am Main, 1591.

The C.C.A., on the title-page, are the initials of Carolus Clusius Artebatensis, i.e. Charles de L'Écluse, the celebrated botanist. Cf. Church.

Latin translation, by Charles de l'Écluse, of: L'histoire notable de la Floride / by Jacques le Moyne de Morgues, first printed Paris, 1586.

Colophon reads: Francofvrti ad Moenum, apud Ioannen Wechelum, impensis Theodori de Bry. M D XCI.

Incorrectly attributed to René de Laudonniere by Alden.

This part gives an account of the unfortunate expeditions of the French Huguenots to Florida under Jean Ribaut (1562); René de Laudonnière (1564); and Dominique de Gourgues (1567). The account of the expedition under Laudonnière was written by Jacques le Moyne, surnamed de Mourgues, an artist who accompanied the expedition. He escaped the massacre by the Spaniards at Fort Caroline and went to England where he dies. After his death his manuscripts and drawings were sold by his widow to de Bry, by whom they were first published. The authors of the other two narratives are unknown. Cf. Church.

"Historia lvctvosae expeditionis Gallorvm in regionem Floridam, omine admodvm infavsto svsceptae, anno 1565", p. [9-16], 1st count, has separate caption title page.

"Indorvm Floridam prouinciam inhabitantium eicones, primùm ibidem ad vivum expressae à Iacobo le Moyne cui cognomen de Morgves: addita as singulas brevi earum declaratione. Nunc verò recens à Theodoro de Bry Leodiense in aes incisae, & evulgatae. Cum gratis & priuil. Caes Maiest. ad quadriennium", p. [3-4], 3rd count, is fully engraved and has imprint: Anno Christi M.D.CIX.

"Libellvs siue Epistola svpplicatoria, regi Galliarvm Carolo IX. eivsdem nominis oblata, per viduas, orphanos, cognatos, affines, & ipsi Franciae Occidentalis regi subditos, quorum consanguinei per Hispanos in ea Galliae antarcticae parte, quae vulgò Floridae nomen inuenit, crudeliter trucidati perierunt; ano 1565", p. [7-12], 3rd count, has separate caption title.

"De qvarta Gallorvm in Floridam navigatione sub Govrgvesio, anno 1567", p. [13-19], 3rd count, has separate caption title.

"Parergon continens qvaedam qvae as praecedentis narrationis elvcidationem, non ervnt forsan invtilia", p. [23-30], 3rd count, has separate caption title.

Signatures: )(⁴ ()(1, )(4 versos blank) ²)()(⁴ a-d⁴ (d4 verso blank) A-H⁶ (H3 missigned H2; H4 missigned H3) (H2 blank) I-K⁴ (K4 verso blank)

Includes index on p. [20-21], 3rd count.

Fully engraved and illustrated title page; engraved head and tail pieces; initials.

Contains 43 leaves of plates, one of which is a double folded map of Florida and part of Cuba bound between p. [8], 1st count, and p. 1, 2nd count; there are plates numbered I-XLII, which are printed on recto only and accompanied by letterpress text underneath illustrations which are bound following p. [3-4], 3rd count, and which are signed A2-6 through H1.

Arents, G. Tobacco, 39.

Church, E.D. Discovery, 146.

JCB Lib. cat., pre-1675, I: p. 388.

Alden, J.E. European Americana, 609/64.