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DE BRY’S AMERICAN VOYAGES
Theodor De Bry’s collection of Great Travels contains important first-hand accounts of attempts to settle North America,
including the English colony at Roanoke and the French in Florida. Among the illustrations are John Smith’s drawings of
Virginia and Jacques Le Moyne’s of Florida, the first realistic representations of the Americas available to Europeans.
Here we have a volume containing approximately the first half of the Voyages, and two of the most significant maps from
the series.
The Great or American Voyages
5 DE BRY, Theodore et al.
Frankfurt: 1594-1617. Parts I-VI only (of 13) in one volume. Latin text. Folio (335 x 235 mm), 17th century vellum over pasteboard, the flat spine with small panel
outlined in gilt with rolls, titled in gilt within the panel.
Various neat repairs, part VI lacking 2nd section (from page 108 including 2nd frontis. and 28 plates), binding with neat repairs to spine and the
board edges, endpapers replaced.
£120,000
Containing:
I. [Thomas Hariot’s Virginia.] Admiranda narratio fida tamen, de
commodis et incolarum ritibus Virginiae ... Anglico scripta sermone a
Thoma Hariot. Frankfurt: Johann Wechel, “1590” [ but c.1608].
II. [Jacques Le Moyne’s Florida.] Brevis narratio eorum quae in Florida
Americae provi[n]cia Gallis acciderunt ... auctore Iacobo Le Moyne.
Frankfurt: Johann Wechel, “1591” [but 1609].
III. [Hans Stadius’s Brazil.] Americae tertia pars memorabile[m] provinciae
Brasiliae historiam contine[n]s, germanico primum sermone scriptum a Ioane
Stadio. Frankfurt: apud Matthiam Beckerum, 1605.
IV. [Girolamo Benzoni’s History of the New World.] Americae
pars quarta sive, insignis & admiranda historia de reperta primum
Occidentali India a Christophoro Columbo anno MCCCCXCII scripta
ab Hieronymo Be[n]zono. Frankfurt: Ad invistiss. Rudolphus II..., 1594.
V. [Benzoni’s History continued.] Americae pars quinta, nobilis
& admiratione plena Hieronymi Be[n]zoni ... secundae sectionis
Hi[stori]a[e] Hispanorum tum in Nigrittas servos suos, tum in Indos
crudelitatem, Gallorumq[ue] pirataru[m] de Hispanis toties reportata
spolia. Frankfurt: Theodore de Bry, “1595” [but c. 1617].
VI. [Benzoni’s History concluded.] Americae pars sexta, sive historiae
ab Hieronymo Be[n]zono ... scriptae, sectio tertia. Frankfurt: Theodore de
Bry, 1596. First section only (of 2).
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