First edition printed in Frankfurt am Main, 1602 under title: Americae nona & postrema pars.

Constitutes the ninth part, sole 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 has been identified as the sole issue of part nine of the second Latin edition of the Great voyages by Church.

The sole issue of the second edition of Latin part nine can be identified by having the 23 in text illustrations which replace the plates in the first Latin edition; many of the in text illustrations have been retouched and printed more darkly.

"Historiae antipodvm, sive Novi Orbis partis nonae liber secvndvs: quo continentur vera et accvrata descriptio, longinqvae, divtvrnae ac pericvlosae navigationis, qvam Oliverivs van-der-Noort, classis quatuor nauium, & ducenti quadraginta octo hominum generalis praefectus per aestuosum fretum Magellanicum confecit: qui triennii spatio velis vniuersum terrae globum intrepidus obiuit, eoque in cursu varia, ac scitu necessaria admodum iucundaque notauit. E Germanico Latinvs factvs, iconibvs aeneis pvlcherrimis ornatus, edituśque, opera sumptibus Matthaei Meriani", p. [39]-102, 1st count, has separate dated title page with imprint: Francofvrti, typis Wolffgangi Hoffmanni, anno 1633.

Part IX of the Great Voyages contains Acosta's Historia natural y moral de las Indias, published in Seville in 1590 [sic, actually translated, by J. Humberger, from Historie naturael ende morael van de Westersche Indien, printed Haarlem, 1598]. Then follows the voyage of Sebald de Weert made in a vessel which was part of the fleet sent to the Moluccas by way of the Straits of Magellan in June, 1598. The project was disastrous and de Weert's vessel was the only one to return. The narrative was written by Zacharias Heyns [sic, actually attributed to Barent Jansz Potgieter] and was first published at Amsterdam in 1600. It was translated into German and then into Latin by the de Brys [actually both translated into both languages by Gotthard Arthus]. This is followed by the Additamentum, which contains a narration of the voyage of Olivier van Noort, understaken with the same object as that of de Weert's. An account of this voyage was published in 1602 by Cornelis Claesz. It was afterwards translated into German, and it was from this translation that the de Bry's version was made. In this second edition of part IX, Merian did not reprint Acosta's Hsistoria natural y moral de las Indias, because there was an extract from it in the Paralipomena Americae in part XII, of the Great Voyages, printed in 1624; nor did he give the plates of these seven books. This edition is therefore divided into only two parts which contain the voyages of de Weert and de Noort. Cf. Church.

According to Camus and other authorities this volume should contain a third part, comprising the seven book of a new relation; that of an expedition to the Canaries, made in 1599, by the Dutch under Pieter van der Does. That part, in this set, will be found bound with the second edition of part VIII, where the catchwords, pagination, and signatures indicate that it belongs, though the text of the heading indicates that it properly belongs to part IX. Cf. Church.

Contains 23 in text illustrations; also contains a map of the Straits of Magellan bound between p. [2] and 3, 1st count.

Signatures: A-N⁴ (A1, E4 versos, N4 blank)

Errors in paging: p. 25 is misnumbered 23.

Fully engraved title page proper; the other title page has a printer's ornament; engraved head and tail pieces; initials.

Church, E.D. Discovery, 169.

JCB Lib. cat., pre-1675, I: p. 408.

Alden, J.E. European Americana, 633/13.

Alden, J.E. European Americana, 633/97.