Bry Theodor: First Edition (45 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Near Fine in a Very Good Plus jacket. Thin Folio.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Very Good. No dust jacket. Tan cloth boards with a touch of soil. No other notable flaws. Wonderful maps and illustrations, some in color.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. FINE hardback copy in near-Fine pale blue slipcase. Second printing, 1987. Beige textured boards with large compass device to upper board. Pale blue epps. with no inscription, pp. [i-xi] xii, 142. Beautifully illustrated throughout, including 16 colour plates (including watercolours by John White). A well produced and attractive book. John White (watercolourist). Theodor de Bry. (illustrator).…

Couverture rigide. Condition: Comme neuf. Edition originale.

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. First Edition. 15 pages (1-4 title page and preface.) (5-15 half-title, introduction). 23 unnumbered leaves, 24 leaves of plates : chiefly illustrations. 23 cm. Pressed cloth over boards; gilt lettering to spine. Following the introdution, each of the 24 plates is accompanied by a facing leaf with appropriate descriptive letterpress. The plates are figures in outline from de Bry's engravings in copper from 1590. Book Condition: Good+ at least; perished at the spine ends, chipped along the remainder of the spine's length; covers unevenly toned and faded, corners worn, showing boards underneath on occasion; front hinge just starting; foxing to text block, (less so to the plates, which are for the most part in lovely condition). Three small, faint, library stamps, but spared the markings, the pockets, etc. Binding is solid as a rock. Following the preface and introduction there is a second title page which spells out the incredible orgins of the the plates that follow: "Portraits to the life and manners of the inhabitants, of that province in America, called Virginia, in charge of the honourable gentleman, Sir Walter Raleigh, knight and steward of the stannaries in Cornwall and Exeter, by licence and authority granted in the year 1585, for the government of the new provinces, by the Most Serene Queen of England Elizabeth, the whole carefully executed and drawn to the life, by John Wyth, sent forth to that province in the years 1585 to 1588, afterwards engraved on copper, and originally published by Theofore De Bry, 1590.".…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Second. Second edition in German. Frankfurt: Johann Wechel for Theodor de Bry, 1591 [1603]. Folio in 4s (9 5/16" x 13 1/4", 237mm x 339mm). [Full collation available.] With an engraved title page, an engraved folding map, and 44 engraved half-page plates integral with the text (of which 1 is the armorial achievement of Georg Wilhelm Count Palatine of the Rhine, 1 the dedication of the Ark, and 42 depictions of Indigenous Americans). Bound in XXc paneled green morocco. On the spine, 5 raised bands. Author, title ("FLORIDA"), editor and city of publication gilt to brown morocco in the second panel. Date gilt to tail. Boards lightly scuffed. Tanned, at times heavily, at the letterpress throughout. Tear to the lower edge of A3, not affecting the text. Paper fault to B1 (touching two characters) and to F2 (not affecting the text). Theodor de Bry (Theodorus or Dirk, 1528-1598) was born in Liège to a distinguished Protestant (Calvinist) family of goldsmith-engravers; through the marriage of his daughter Maria Magdalena to Matthew Merian (father to Maria Sibylla Merian by his second wife), the family would continue to be engraver-publishers into the XVIIIc. The persecution of Protestants in 1570 resulting in de Bry's exile from deeply Catholic Liège and a peregrination through the Netherlands and England. In London he met Richard Hakluyt, the apostle of American exploration and colonization, as well as Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues (ca. 1533-1588), and began to formulate a major project publishing accounts of voyages. Once settled in Frankfurt, de Bry -- from the age of 60 -- began two parallel series, now known as the Grands Voyages (those to the Americas, in 14 parts) and the Petits Voyages (to Asia, in 12 parts), which were completed after his death by his wife Catherine and his sons Johann Theodor and Johann Israel. Each part of the series was a stand-alone work, and while runs or complete series are sometimes found, likely the parts were mostly bought piece-meal. The present volume is the second part of the American series and contains de Bry's translation of Le Moyne's "brief narration of those things that befell the French in Florida, a province of America" during the disastrous expedition led by René Goulaine de Laudonnière in 1564 (see our first edition of the Latin translation). Le Moyne was -- in this capacity -- the first European artist to travel to the Americas and to record what he saw (including by botanical watercolors handled by Arader). Accounts of the earlier Ribaut expedition (1562) and the later expedition of de Gourgues (1567) are also included, but their authors are not named. The illustrations -- for which de Bry's voyages are perhaps so ardently sought -- are after Le Moyne's watercolors, which de Bry traveled to London to buy from his widow (although recent research suggests this may not be the case, and that the images are instead after John White, whose work appeared in the first part of the series, Hariot's Virginia). They depict native Americans -- particularly the Timucua, a group that perished in the early XVIIIc -- in a variety of situations and activities, from the ordinary (cooking fish) to the preposterous (cooking humans). Although assessments of their veracity have fluctuated over the centuries, their early date and thoroughness have made them the most enduring records of contact-era native Americans. The map is the first French map of the Americas to show Florida and extends west into the Gulf of Mexico and up the Carolina coast. John Matthews Baxter in his 1941 "Annotated Checklist of Florida Maps" (Tequesta I, pp. 107-115) calls it "the most remarkable and important map, which has been preserved from sixteenth century maps, of that part of the East Coast which lies between Cape Hatteras and Cape Florida." This example was lot 161 of Swann's "Maps and Atlases, Natural History and Color Plate Books" sale on 10 December 2024. Alden & Landis 603/63; Sabin 8784.II; VD-16 B 262. Catalogued by G. Murdock.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Frankfurt: Wolfgang Richter, 1613. Folio (12" x 7 3/4", 350mm x 200mm) First edition, first issue. With 3 plates, 3 double page maps, and an engraved title surround. Maps of 1) Greenland and Upper Canada, 2) Northern Finland, 3) Russia and Norway. Bound in half brown morocco gilt over pebbled boards. On the spine, 5 raised bands. Gilt to the second panel of de Bry, Perigrinations in Indiam; to the fourth panel Latinè Pars X, and 1613 to the foot. The "Little Voyages" is likely the greatest single collection of material on early voyages to the East Indies, and is unique in its extraordinary wealth of cartographical and visual material on Africa, India, the Spice Islands, and South Asia. Volume X describes 4 discoveries: 1 ) discovery of Hudson's Bay, 2) 2 voyages to the North by Jan Huygen van Linschoten, 3) Pedro Fernandes De Quiros' voyage and discovery of Australia, 4/5) Samoiedes and others of the North and Siberia. Theodor de Bry (1528-1598) was born in Belgium, to a family of jewelers and engravers. He was trained in copper plate engraving, and is known for his depictions of early European expeditions of the Americas. The Spanish Inquisition forced him, a Protestant, to flee his native Spanish-controlled Southern Netherlands. In 1588, he moved to Frankfurt-am-Main, where he was assisted by his sons Johann Theodor de Bry (1561-1623) and Johann Isreal de Bry (1565-160an Linscjhoten9). Copper engraving was a hghly developed art in the Low Counties at this time, and the de Bry family was very successful. His engravings were among the earliest views of Americans seen by Europeans. Yet he never traveled across the Atlantic. De Bry first began the publication of this stunning collection of voyages after a visit to England where he met the geographer Richard Hakluyt (1552-1616), who was creating his own depiction of the New World. Sion College was founded by the bequest of the wealthy Thomas White (1550-1624), who also built a hospital in Temple in Bristol, provided scholarships to Magdalen Hall, funded a lectureship at St Paul's in London, bequeathed his folio and Latin books to St George's Chapel, Windsor, and donated to the city of Bristol money for the improvement of roads and other municipal purposes. The library grew with the help of many small donors including Matthew Forster's gift in 1646 of Caxton's first book "The Recuyell of the Histories of Troye", printed at Bruges in 1474-75. Another early bequest was from the library of Walter Travers (1548? - 1635), puritan divine which included a Mercator Atlas. However the College buildings and a third of the books were lost in the Great Fire of 1666. Church 222. Bibliotheca Lindesiana 181.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Frankfurt: Wolfgang Richter, 1612. Folio (12" x 7 3/4", 350mm x 200mm) First edition, first issue. With 17 plates, 2 double page maps, and an engraved title surround. Bound in half brown morocco gilt over pebbled boards. On the spine, 5 raised bands. Gilt to the second panel of de Bry, Perigrinations in Indiam; to the fourth panel Latinè Pars IX, and 1612 to the foot. The "Little Voyages" is likely the greatest single collection of material on early voyages to the East Indies, and is unique in its extraordinary wealth of cartographical and visual material on Africa, India, the Spice Islands, and South Asia. Volume IX describes a voyage to the Moluccas, or Spice Islands, by Pieter Willemz Verhoeff. Theodor de Bry (1528-1598) was born in Belgium, to a family of jewelers and engravers. He was trained in copper plate engraving, and is known for his depictions of early European expeditions to the Americas. The Spanish Inquisition forced him, a Protestant, to flee his native Spanish-controlled Southern Netherlands. In 1588, he moved to Frankfurt-am-Main, where he was assisted by his sons Johann Theodor de Bry (1561-1623) and Johann Isreal de Bry (1565-1609). Copper engraving was a hghly developed art in the Low Counties at this time, and the de Bry family was very successful. His engravings were among the earliest views of Americans seen by Europeans. Yet he never traveled across the Atlantic. De Bry first began the publication of this stunning collection of voyages after a visit to England where he met the geographer Richard Hakluyt (1552-1616), who was creating his own depiction of the New World. Sion College was founded by the bequest of the wealthy Thomas White (1550-1624), who also built a hospital in Temple in Bristol, provided scholarships to Magdalen Hall, funded a lectureship at St Paul's in London, bequeathed his folio and Latin books to St George's Chapel, Windsor, and donated to the city of Bristol money for the improvement of roads and other municipal purposes. The library grew with the help of many small donors including Matthew Forster's gift in 1646 of Caxton's first book "The Recuyell of the Histories of Troye", printed at Bruges in 1474-75. Another early bequest was from the library of Walter Travers (1548? - 1635), puritan divine which included a Mercator Atlas. However the College buildings and a third of the books were lost in the Great Fire of 1666. Church 220. Bibliotheca Lindesiana 179. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Frankfurt: Wolfgang Richter, 1607. Folio (12" x 7 3/4", 350mm x 200mm) Sole edition, second issue. With 18 plates, four of which are double pages, and engraved title surround. Bound in half brown morocco gilt over pebbled boards. On the spine, 5 raised bands. Gilt to the second panel of de Bry, Perigrinations in Indiam; to the fourth panel Latinè Pars VIII; and Francof 1607 to the foot. Gilt top edge of the text block. Skinning to the boards. Extremities and raised bands rubbed. With tanning and foxing. Ink stamp of Sion College on the verso of the title page and throughout. Blank leaves to fill out signature. The "Little Voyages" is likely the greatest single collection of material on early voyages to the East Indies, and is unique in its extraordinary wealth of cartographical and visual material on Africa, India, the Spice Islands, and South Asia. Volume VIII contains accounts of 5 voyages made by the Dutch to the East Indies to counteract the influence of the Portuguese and Spaniards who had sought to eastablish themselves there. 1) Jacob van Neck, 1600-1604, to islands of Termate and Macao; 2) Jan Harmensz van Bree, 1606-1604, to the East Indies; 3) Cornelis Clæz, to China; 4) Wibrandt van Warwijck, to China; 5) Steven van der Hagen, 1603-1606, to islands of Moluccas. Theodor de Bry (1528-1598) was born in Belgium, to a family of jewelers and engravers. He was trained in copper plate engraving, and is known for his depictions of early European expeditions to the Americas. The Spanish Inquisition forced him, a Protestant, to flee his native Spanish-controlled Southern Netherlands. In 1588, he moved to Frankfurt-am-Main, where he was assisted by his sons Johann Theodor de Bry (1561-1623) and Johann Isreal de Bry (1565-1609). Copper engraving was a hghly developed art in the Low Counties at this time, and the de Bry family was very successful. His engravings were among the earliest views of Americans seen by Europeans. Yet he never traveled across the Atlantic. De Bry first began the publication of this stunning collection of voyages after a visit to England where he met the geographer Richard Hakluyt (1552-1616), who was creating his own depiction of the New World. Sion College was founded by the bequest of the wealthy Thomas White (1550-1624), who also built a hospital in Temple in Bristol, provided scholarships to Magdalen Hall, funded a lectureship at St Paul's in London, bequeathed his folio and Latin books to St George's Chapel, Windsor, and donated to the city of Bristol money for the improvement of roads and other municipal purposes. The library grew with the help of many small donors including Matthew Forster's gift in 1646 of Caxton's first book "The Recuyell of the Histories of Troye", printed at Bruges in 1474-75. Another early bequest was from the library of Walter Travers (1548? - 1635), puritan divine which included a Mercator Atlas. However the College buildings and a third of the books were lost in the Great Fire of 1666. Church 218. Bibliotheca Lindesiana 175.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Frankfurt: Wolfgang Richter, 1606. Folio (12" x 7 3/4", 350mm x 200mm) First edition, first issue. With 22 plates, two of which are double pages, engraved title surround and dedicatory arms of Archbishop Schwichardt. Bound in half brown morocco gil6 over pebbled boards. On the spine, 5 raised bands. Gilt to the second panel of de Bry, Perigrinations in Indiam; to the fourth panel Latinè Pars VII; and Francof 1606 to the foot. Gilt top edge of the text block. Skinning to the boards. Extremities and raised bands rubbed. With tanning and foxing. Ink stamp of Sion College on the verso of the title page and throughout. Blank leaves to fill out signature. The "Little Voyages" is likely the greatest single collection of material on early voyages to the East Indies, and is unique in its extraordinary wealth of cartographical and visual material on Africa, India, the Spice Islands, and South Asia. Volume VII contains an account of a voyage made under the command of Joris van Spilbergen and Caspero Balby to Ceylon in 1601-1604. Theodor de Bry (1528-1598) was born in Belgium, to a family of jewelers and engravers. He was trained in copper plate engraving, and is known for his depictions of early European expeditions to the Americas. The Spanish Inquisition forced him, a Protestant, to flee his native Spanish-controlled Southern Netherlands. In 1588, he moved to Frankfurt-am-Main, where he was assisted by his sons Johann Theodor de Bry (1561-1623) and Johann Isreal de Bry (1565-1609). Copper engraving was a hghly developed art in the Low Counties at this time, and the de Bry family was very successful. His engravings were among the earliest views of Americans seen by Europeans. Yet he never traveled across the Atlantic. De Bry first began the publication of this stunning collection of voyages after a visit to England where he met the geographer Richard Hakluyt (1552-1616), who was creating his own depiction of the New World. Sion College was founded by the bequest of the wealthy Thomas White (1550-1624), who also built a hospital in Temple in Bristol, provided scholarships to Magdalen Hall, funded a lectureship at St Paul's in London, bequeathed his folio and Latin books to St George's Chapel, Windsor, and donated to the city of Bristol money for the improvement of roads and other municipal purposes. The library grew with the help of many small donors including Matthew Forster's gift in 1646 of Caxton's first book "The Recuyell of the Histories of Troye", printed at Bruges in 1474-75. Another early bequest was from the library of Walter Travers (1548? - 1635), puritan divine which included a Mercator Atlas. However the College buildings and a third of the books were lost in the Great Fire of 1666. Church 216. Bibliotheca Lindesiana 175.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Frankfurt: Wolfgang Richter, 1604. Folio (12 x 7 3/4 , 350mm x 200mm) Sole edition, first issue. With 26 plates, engraved title surround and dedicatory arms. Bound in half brown morocco gilt over pebbled boards. On the spine, 5 raised bands. Gilt to the second panel of de Bry, Perigrinations in Indiam; to the fourth panel Latinè Pars VI; and Francof 1604 to the foot. Gilt top edge of the text block. Skinning to the boards. Extremities and raised bands rubbed. With tanning and foxing. Ink stamp of Sion College on the verso of the title page and throughout. Blank leaves to fill out signature. The Little Voyages is likely the greatest single collection of material on early voyages to the East Indies, and is unique in its extraordinary wealth of cartographical and visual material on Africa, India, the Spice Islands, and South Asia. Volume VI offers a description of the kingdom of Guinea in Africa, based on observations made in a voyage, undertaken by the Dutch in 1600-1601; with a history of the early voyages to that coast by the Portuguese, French and Dutch. Theodor de Bry (1528-1598) was born in Belgium, to a family of jewelers and engravers. He was trained in copper plate engraving, and is known for his depictions of early European expeditions to the Americas. The Spanish Inquisition forced him, a Protestant, to flee his native Spanish-controlled Southern Netherlands. In 1588, he moved to Frankfurt-am-Main, where he was assisted by his sons Johann Theodor de Bry (1561-1623) and Johann Isreal de Bry (1565-1609). Copper engraving was a hghly developed art in the Low Counties at this time, and the de Bry family was very successful. His engravings were among the earliest views of Americans seen by Europeans. Yet he never traveled across the Atlantic. De Bry first began the publication of this stunning collection of voyages after a visit to England where he met the geographer Richard Hakluyt (1552-1616), who was creating his own depiction of the New World. Sion College was founded by the bequest of the wealthy Thomas White (1550-1624), who also built a hospital in Temple in Bristol, provided scholarships to Magdalen Hall, funded a lectureship at St Paul's in London, bequeathed his folio and Latin books to St George's Chapel, Windsor, and donated to the city of Bristol money for the improvement of roads and other municipal purposes. The library grew with the help of many small donors including Matthew Forster's gift in 1646 of Caxton's first book "The Recuyell of the Histories of Troye", printed at Bruges in 1474-75. Another early bequest was from the library of Walter Travers (1548? - 1635), puritan divine which included a Mercator Atlas. However the College buildings and a third of the books were lost in the Great Fire of 1666. Church 213. Bibliotheca Lindesiana 173.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Frankfurt: Matthew Becker, 1601. Folio (12" x 7 3/4", 350mm x 200mm) First edition, first issue. With an engraved title surround, 2 of 3 folding maps, and 59 engraved plates. Bound in half brown morocco gilt over pebbled boards. On the spine, 5 raised bands. Gilt to the second panel of de Bry, Perigrinations in Indiam; to the fourth panel Latinè Pars III; and Francof 1601 to the foot. Gilt top edge of the text block. Skinning to the boards. Extremities and raised bands rubbed. With tanning and foxing. Ink stamp of Sion College on the verso of the title page and throughout. The "Little Voyages" is likely the greatest single collection of material on early voyages to the East Indies, and is unique in its extraordinary wealth of cartographical and visual material on Africa, India, the Spice Islands, and South Asia. A German edition of the "Little Voyages" was published in 1599. Volume III documents Linschoten's Voyages (Contined from Vol. II), Cornelis de Houtman's Voyage to the East Indies (1595-1597), and Gerrit de Veer's Journal of Three Dutch voyages to reach the East Indies by the North (1594- 1597. Theodor de Bry (1528-1598) was born in Belgium, to a family of jewelers and engravers. He was trained in copper plate engraving, and is known for his depictions of early European expeditions to the Americas. The Spanish Inquisition forced him, a Protestant, to flee his native Spanish-controlled Southern Netherlands. In 1588, he moved to Frankfurt-am-Main, where he was assisted by his sons Johann Theodor de Bry (1561-1623) and Johann Isreal de Bry (1565-1609). Copper engraving was a hghly developed art in the Low Counties at this time, and the de Bry family was very successful. His engravings were among the earliest views of Americans seen by Europeans. Yet he never traveled across the Atlantic. De Bry first began the publication of this stunning collection of voyages after a visit to England where he met the geographer Richard Hakluyt (b. c. 1552, d. 1616), who was creating his own depiction of the New World part was published in 1634. Sion College was founded by the bequest of the wealthy Thomas White (1550-1624), who also built a hospital in Temple in Bristol, provided scholarships to Magdalen Hall, funded a lectureship at St Paul's in London, bequeathed his folio and Latin books to St George's Chapel, Windsor, and donated to the city of Bristol money for the improvement of roads and other municipal purposes. The library grew with the help of many small donors including Matthew Forster's gift in 1646 of Caxton's first book "The Recuyell of the Histories of Troye", printed at Bruges in 1474-75. Another early bequest was from the library of Walter Travers (1548? - 1635), puritan divine which included a Mercator Atlas. However the College buildings and a third of the books were lost in the Great Fire of 1666. Church 208. Bibliotheca Lindesiana 167.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Frankfurt: Wolfgang Richter, 1599. Folio (12" x 7 3/4", 350mm x 200mm) First edition. With an engraved title surround, a portrait of Linschoten, 2 of 3 folding maps, a plate of coins and 38 engraved plates.Bound in half brown morocco gilt over pebbled boards. On the spine, 5 raised bands. Gilt to the second panel of de Bry, Perigrinations in Indiam; to the fourth panel Latinè Pars II; and Francof 1599 to the foot. Gilt top edge of the text block. Skinning to the boards. Extremities and raised bands rubbed. With tanning and foxing. Ink stamp of Sion College on the verso of the title page and throughout. Pars II of the Petit Voyages deals with Jan Huygen van Linschoten's voyages to Africa and the East Indies from 1583-1598. It was first published in Holland in 1596 and later translated by the de Brys on 1598.Theodor de Bry (1528-1598) was born in Belgium, to a family of jewelers and engravers. He was trained in copper plate engraving, and is known for his depictions of early European expeditions to the Americas. The Spanish Inquisition forced him, a Protestant, to flee his native Spanish-controlled Southern Netherlands. In 1588, he moved to Frankfurt-am-Main, where he was assisted by his sons Johann Theodor de Bry (1561-1623) and Johann Isreal de Bry (1565-1609). Copper engraving was a hghly developed art in the Low Counties at this time, and the de Bry family was very successful. His engravings were among the earliest views of Americans seen by Europeans. Yet he never traveled across the Atlantic. De Bry first began the publication of this stunning collection of voyages after a visit to England where he met the geographer Richard Hakluyt (b. c. 1552, d. 1616), who was creating his own depiction of the New World. De Bry published the first six parts of the "Great Voyages" from 1590 until his death in 1598. His sons went on to continue his work, including Parts VII and VIII in 1599 and IX in 1602. Johan completed Parts X and XI in 1619 and 1620, and de Bry's heirs would go on to complete the series. The final part was published in 1634. Although the first part was published in Latin, German, English and French, the subsequent parts were only published in Latin and German. De Bry adjusted his discriptions to attract different audiences. The volumes in German were geared towards Protestants, while those in Latin appealed to Catholics. Sion College was founded by the bequest of the wealthy Thomas White (1550-1624), who also built a hospital in Temple in Bristol, provided scholarships to Magdalen Hall, funded a lectureship at St Paul's in London, bequeathed his folio and Latin books to St George's Chapel, Windsor, and donated to the city of Bristol money for the improvement of roads and other municipal purposes. The library grew with the help of many small donors including Matthew Forster's gift in 1646 of Caxton's first book "The Recuyell of the Histories of Troye", printed at Bruges in 1474-75. Another early bequest was from the library of Walter Travers (1548? - 1635), puritan divine which included a Mercator Atlas. However the College buildings and a third of the books were lost in the Great Fire of 1666. Church 207. Bibliotheca Lindesiana 165.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Frankfurt: For Mathias Becker, 1602. Folio (13 7/8" x 9 1/2" , 351mm x 240mm). First edition. With engraved title surround, dedicatory arms of Christian II, 2 section title vignettes, and 39 engraved plates. Lacking map of the straits of Magellan. Bound in half brown morocco gilt over pebbled boards. On the spine, 5 raised bands. Gilt text to the second panel of de Bry Perigrinationes in Americam; to the fourth panel Latinè Pars IX; and Francof 1602 to the foot. Marbled endpapers. Gilt top edge of the text block. Skinning to the boards. Extremities and raised bands rubbed. Extensive tanning throughout with foxing and spotting. Ink stamp of Sion College on the verso of the title page and engravings throughout. The Great Voyages deal with North and South America, and the Minor Voyages concern the Far East. The Latin edition comes in 13 parts. This part contains Joseph Acosta s Historia natural y moral de las Indias, published in Seville in 1590. The voyage of Sebald de Weert was 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 boat was the only one to return. The narrative was written by Zacharias Heyns and was first published in Amsterdam in 1600. It was translated into German and then into Latin by the De Brys. Theodor de Bry (1528-1598) was born in Belgium, to a family of jewelers and engravers. He was trained in copper plate engraving, and is known for his depictions of early European expeditions to the Americas. The Spanish Inquisition forced him, a Protestant, to flee his native Spanish-controlled Southern Netherlands. In 1588, he moved to Frankfurt-am-Main, where he was assisted by his sons Johann Theodor de Bry (1561-1623) and Johann Isreal de Bry (1565-1609). Copper engraving was a hghly developed art in the Low Counties at this time, and the De Bry family was very successful. His engravings were among the earliest views of Americans seen by Eurpeans. Yet he never traveled across the Atlantic. De Bry first began the publication of this stunning collection of voyages after a visit to England where he met the geographer Richard Hakluyt (b. c. 1552, d. 1616), who was creating his own depiction of the New World. De Bry published the first six parts of the "Great Voyages" from 1590 until his death in 1598. His sons went on to continue his work, including Parts VII and VIII in 1599 and IX in 1602. Johan completed Parts X and XI in 1619 and 1620, and de Bry s heirs would go on to complete the series. The final part was published in 1634. Although the first part was published in Latin, German, English and French, the subsequent parts were only published in Latin and German. De Bry adjusted his discriptions to attract different audiences. The volumes in German were geared towards Protestants, while those in Latin appealed to Catholics. Sion College was founded by the bequest of the wealthy Thomas White (1550-1624), who also built a hospital in Temple in Bristol, provided scholarships to Magdalen Hall, funded a lectureship at St Paul's in London, bequeathed his folio and Latin books to St George's Chapel, Windsor, and donated to the city of Bristol money for the improvement of roads and other municipal purposes. The library grew with the help of many small donors including Matthew Forster's gift in 1646 of Caxton's first book "The Recuyell of the Histories of Troye", printed at Bruges in 1474-75. Another early bequest was from the library of Walter Travers (1548? - 1635), puritan divine which included a Mercator Atlas. However the College buildings and a third of the books were lost in the Great Fire of 1666. Church 168.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Frankfurt: Theodore de Bry, 1599. Folio (13 7/8" x 9 1/2", 351mm x 240mm). First edition. With engraved title surround. Bound in half brown morocco gilt over pebbled boards. On the spine, 5 raised bands. Gilt to the second panel of de Bry, Perigrinations in Americam; to the fourth panel Latinè Pars VII; and Francof 1625 to the foot. Pages 1-35 only, with blanks for the rest of the Marbled endpapers. Gilt top edge of the text block. Skinning to the boards. Extremities, hinges and raised bands rubbed. Extensive tanning throughout with foxing and spotting. Ink stamp of Sion College on the verso of the title page. The "Great Voyages" deal with North and South America, and the "Minor Voyages" concern the Far East. The Latin edition comes in 13 parts. Ulrichj Schmidel (ca. 1570-1579) contribured his accounts of Argentina and Paraguy. Theodore de Bry (1528-1598) was born in Belgium, to a family of jewelers and engravers. He was trained in copper plate engraving, and is known for his depictions of early European expeditions to the Americas. The Spanish Inquisition forced him, a Protestant, to flee his native Spanish-controlled Southern Netherlands. In 1588, he moved to Frankfurt-am-Main, where he was assisted by his sons Johann Theodor de Bry (1561-1623) and Johann Isreal de Bry (1565-1609). Copper engraving was a hghly developed art in the Low Counties at this time, and the De Bry family was very successful. His engravings were among the earliet views of Americans seen by Europeans. Although he never traveled across the Atlantic. De Bry first began the publication of this stunning collection of voyages after a visit to England where he met the geographer Richard Hakluyt (b. c. 1552, d. 1616), who was creating his own depiction of the New World. De Bry published the first six parts of the "Great Voyages" from 1590 until his death in 1598. His sons went on to continue his work, including Parts VII and VIII in 1599 and IX in 1602. Johan completed Parts X and XI in 1619 and 1620, and de Bry's heirs would go on to complete the series. The final part was published in 1634. Although the first part was published in Latin, German, English and French, the subsequent parts were only published in Latin and German. De Bry adjusted his discriptions to attract different audiences. The volumes in German were geared towards Protestants, while those in Latin appealed to Catholics. At the the bottom of the title page there is a scene of cannibalism with a group of people cooking and eating body parts Sion College was founded by the bequest of the wealthy Thomas White (1550-1624), who also built a hospital in Temple in Bristol, provided scholarships to Magdalen Hall, funded a lectureship at St Paul's in London, bequeathed his folio and Latin books to St George's Chapel, Windsor, and donated to the city of Bristol money for the improvement of roads and other municipal purposes. The library grew with the help of many small donors including Matthew Forster's gift in 1646 of Caxton's first book "The Recuyell of the Histories of Troye", printed at Bruges in 1474-75. Another early bequest was from the library of Walter Travers (1548? - 1635), puritan divine which included a Mercator Atlas. However the College buildings and a third of the books were lost in the Great Fire of 1666. Church 161, European Americana Vol. II, Alden and Landis, p.712, Sabin 8784.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. First. First edition. Frankfurt: Johann Wechel for Theodor de Bry, 1591. Folio in 4s and 6s (12 13/16" x 8 7/8", 326mm x 226mm). [Full collation availble.] With 47 engravings integral with the text: 2 title-pages, a half-page armorial achievement of the Duke of Saxony, a half-page depiction of the Ark, 42 half-page depictions of Native Americans and a folding map ("Floridae Americae provinciae Recens & exactissima descriptio.") laid down on wove paper. Bound in modern laced vellum. Author (explorer), title and imprint in ink manuscript along the spine: "Laudonniere. Gallorum in Floridam. Francoforti, 1591." Presented in a marbled-paper slip-case. Washed and pressed. Repair to the upper-left corner of the folding map and to the verso of E6 (illustration XXIX), cutting through the head-line (with a little ink facsimile). Traces of paper-clip rust to the title-page, along with the date in Arabic numerals and "13" in ballpoint ink. Ownership inscription of Wm. R. Johnson, Jr. to the front paste-down. Theodor de Bry (Theodorus or Dirk, 1528-1598) was born in Liège to a distinguished Protestant (Calvinist) family of goldsmith-engravers; through the marriage of his daughter Maria Magdalena to Matthew Merian (father to Maria Sibylla Merian by his second wife), the family would continue to be engraver-publishers into the XVIIIc. The persecution of Protestants in 1570 resulting in de Bry's exile from deeply Catholic Liège and a peregrination through the Netherlands and England. In London he met Richard Hakluyt, the apostle of American exploration and colonization, as well as Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues (ca. 1533-1588), and began to formulate a major project publishing accounts of voyages. Once settled in Frankfurt, de Bry -- from the age of 60 --began two parallel series, now known as the Grands Voyages (Great Voyages, i.e., those to the Americas, in 14 parts) and the Petits Voyages (Little Voyages, i.e., those to Asia, in 12 parts), which were completed after his death by his wife Catherine and his sons Johann Theodor and Johann Israel. The present volume is the second part of the American series, and contains de Bry's translation into Latin (there was also a German translation, with no established priority) of Le Moyne's (French) "brief narration of those things that befell the French in Florida, a province of America" during the disastrous expedition led by René Goulaine de Laudonnière in 1564. Le Moyne was in this capacity the first European artist to travel to the Americas and to record what he saw (including botanical watercolors handled by Arader). Accounts of the earlier Ribaut expedition (1562) and the later expedition of de Gourgues (1567) are also included, but their authors are not named. The illustrations depict native Americans -- particularly the Timucua, a group that perished in the early XVIIIc -- in a variety of situations and activities, from the ordinary (cooking fish) to the preposterous (cooking humans). Although assessments of their veracity have fluctuated over the centuries, their early date and thoroughness have made them the most enduring records of contact-era native Americans. The map is the first French map of the Americas to show Florida, and extends west into the Gulf of Mexico and up the Carolina coast. John Matthews Baxter in his 1941 "Annotated Checklist of Florida Maps" (Tequesta I, pp. 107-115) calls it "the most remarkable and important map, which has been preserved from sixteenth century maps, of that part of the East Coast which lies between Cape Hatteras and Cape Florida." William R. Johnson Jr. is recorded as having been a member of the Florida Historical Society in 1948; it seems plausible that he was the owner of the volume. Purchased at Sotheby's New York 28 June 2024, lot 1015. Alden & Landis 591/39; Burden, Mapping of North America 79; Cumming & De Vorsey, The Southeast in Early Maps 14; JCB3 I pp. 387-388; Streeter II.1172.…

Technic: Copper print, colorit: original colored, condition: Binding in leather, titel in gold embossing, size (in cm): 34 x 24 cm, Magnificently coloured travel book by Theodor de Bry. Part 1-6, of the Latin "Great Travels" in 1 volume. Frankfurt, J. Wechel for T. de Bry, 1590-1605. With 8 titles and intertitles, 4 coats of arms, 1. portrait, 6 folded maps with America and its explorers, South Amerika with the Caribean, America with the4 explorers , Florida,Virginia, tolal Caribean, Mexico. 1 folded bird's-eye view, Adam and Eve and 164 engravings. 17th century binding with gilt title. The first five parts and the first section of the sixth part of one of the most important travel collections of the early modern period. Parts 1-5 in second, part 6 in first Latin edition.- Part 1, 1590. T. Hariot. Admiranda narratio fida tamen, de commodis et incolarum ritibus Virginiae. - Part 2, 1591 J. LeMoyne. Brevis narratio eorum quae in Florida Americae provincia Gallis acciderunt quae est secunda pars Americae? - Part 3, 1592 Kolophon 1605. J. Staden. Americae tertia pars, memorabilen provinciae Brasiliae continens. - Part 4, 1594. G. Benzoni. Americae pars quarta. Sive, insignis & admiranda historia de reperta primum Occidentali India à Christophoro Columbo anno M.CCCCXCII. -Part 5, 1595 G. Benzoni. Americae pars quinta. Nobilis & admiratione plena Hieronymi Bezoni secundae sectionis Hispanorum. - Part 6, 1596. G. Benzoni. Americae pars sexta. Sive historiae ab Hieronymo Bezono Mediolanese scriptae, sectio tertia.…

Condition: Very good plus. Mixed first and second issue. First edition of this iconic account of Virginia, the Roanoke colony, and its environs, including the landmark map of Virginia and all the famed engravings of Native American life in the 1580s. The first of De Bry's series of great and small voyages, this book is particularly important for its content on the lives of the Native American populations of Virginia and North Carolina in the late 16th century as recorded by a key member of an early expedition. Thomas Hariot, an English polymath fluent in Carolina Algonquin, penned the text on a voyage to Roanoke Island in 1585-6, including direct observations of the Indigenous populations' living arrangements, farming, fishing, and traditional practices. The text is accompanied by illustrations originally made by John White, a member of the same expedition and later famous for his discovery that the colony of Roanoke had vanished - the very colony described in detail here by Hariot. Copies of De Bry's voyages are known for causing "the greatest confusion of bibliographers" and "the despair of collectors" (Church, vol 1, 317) owing to their typically mixed and/or incomplete states. The first and second issues of part one of the voyages were issued in the same year and are largely uniform with only minor differences in the position of the text. As with the vast majority of known copies, the present copy contains plates from both issues, with six plates from the first issue and six from the second (where there are issue points to distinguish them; the remaining 19 plates are identical between issues), as well as a mix of the first two text issues and the map in its second state (as usual) as identified by Burden. Though lacking some leaves, this copy retains its complete set of the Native American plates, arguably the most important and informative part of the entire De Bry series, and the stellar map of Virginia. A foundational book for collectors of Americana. 14'' x 9.5''. Modern polished brown goat boards tooled in blind and gilt, light brown goatskin spine label. Red-stained edges. Endpapers renewed. Illustrated with engraved title page and 25 (of 28) engraved plates (two folding), and double-page map. 34, [64], [22] pages, most printed one side only; lacking leaves d6 (Adam & Eve plate), D6 (blank), E2 (Picts plate I), E6 (Picts plate III), and F6 (colophon). Leaves variously expertly repaired to margins, with occasional faint soil or dampstaining. Binding only a bit of faint scuffing, else solid and clean.…

Condition: Bien. [i.e. 1614].- // [Para pedidos desde fuera de España, por favor, consulte las condiciones de venta y envío, tipo B. / For orders to be delivered outside Spain, please, let you see our sale and shipping terms, type B. / Pour les commandes à livrer hors d'Espagne, s'il vous plait, voyez les conditions de vente et de livraison, type B.].- // 1ª edición en francés.- // Folio, (folios 310x195 mm.).- [6], 164, [4], 5 p.; sign.: [ ]4, A-X4, (a)4, última blanca; frontispicio arquitectónico grabado; escudo grabado; 27 planchas numeradas, varias de las cuales representan escenas distintas que aquí están recortadas e insertadas en sus lugares, y que en total agrupan 58 [de 60] grabados + 2 planchas sin numerar con 2 grabados a plena página, correspondientes al Anexo ?Quelques advertissements dependans de l?artillerie.?; frisos e iniciales grabados.- // Encuadernación en pergamino; lomo con título manuscrito. Pergamino deslucido, sucio y falto de parte superior de plano delantero y lomo; interior limpio, sin anotaciones ni subrayados; hojas ligeramente tostadas; cerco de antigua marca de humedad en margen superior del último tercio del libro, sin afectar al texto; muy esporádicos puntos de óxido.- // Proc.: Sello estampado en recto de guarda delantera 'Juan J. de Mugartegui. Abogado. Marquina'.- // Refs.: Palau, 342946; Pohler III, p.668; Brunet V, p.1000; Graesse VII, p.222._ Libros. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. "9 parts in 2 volumes, folio (13 3/4 x 9 1/2 in.; 34.9 x 24.1 cm). Contemporary French calf, spine in 7 compartments with raised bands; joints rubbed and starting, repairs to spine ends of vol. 2, a few old scrapes on lower boards of both volumes. PROVENANCE: De Bry family of Frankfurt, publishers and engravers of the series of Great Voyages, by descent (engraved bookplate on front pastedowns; Stanley Paul Sax, his sale of Highly Important Americana, Sotheby's New York, 16-17 January 1998, lot 173. PART I. FIRST EDITION, MOSTLY FIRST ISSUE: ADMIRANDA NARRATIO FIDA TAMEN, DE COMMODIS ET INCOLARUM RITIBUS VIRGINIAE. [Hariot's A Brief and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia]. Frankfurt: Johannes Wechel for Theodor de Bry, 1590. Engraved title-page, engraved vignette of arms on dedication leaf (a2), first state of headpiece on a4 with cherub at center and the page number "7" on the outside corner, engraved plate of Adam & Eve, double-page engraved map of Virginia, 23 fine engraved plates (some double or folding) mostly after John White, all plates except 3-4 and 7-8 in the first state, 5 engraved plates of the Picts, woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces. All plates, except Adam and Eve, bear the initials "T.B." except plates 5, 6, 11 and 15 which are engraved "G. VEEN." Plates II-XVI and XIX-XXIII and I-V of the Picts are numbered with arabic numerals on the plate. (Church 140 and 141). PART II. SECOND EDITION. BREVIS NARRATIO EORUM QUAE IN FLORIDA AMERICAE PROVI[N]CIA GALLIS ACCIDERUNT [Le Moyne's Florida]. Frankfurt: Johannes Wechel, 1591 [1609]. Engraved title-page, engraved vignette of arms, engraved plate of Noah and his Ark on the notice to the reader, engraved folding map of Florida and Cuba, 42 engraved plates, woodcut initials head- and tailpieces. (Church 146). PART III. SECOND EDITION, SECOND ISSUE. AMERICAE TERTIA PARS MEMORABILEM PROVINCIAE BRASILAE HISTORIAM CONTINENS, GERMANICO PRIMUM SERMONE SCRIPTAM A IOANNE STADIO. [Stadius's Brazil]. Frankfurt: Matthias Becker, 1605 [section title and colophon]. Engraved title-page, engraved arms on dedication leaf a2r (leaf a2r is wrongly marked a1r), engraved plate of armorial shields and virtues (a3r), engraved folding map of Mexico, Central and South America, engraved plate of Adam and Eve on p. 144, 45 engraved plates (of which 13 are repeats), woodcut printed music, woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces. (Church 151). PART IV. FIRST EDITION, SECOND ISSUE. AMERICAE PARS QUARTA, SIVE, INSIGNIS & ADMIRANDA HISTORIA DE REPERTA PRIMUM OCCIDENTALI INDIA À CHRISTOPHORO COLUMBO ANNO M.CCCCXCII SCRIPTA AB HIERONYMO BEZONO MEDIOLANENSE [Benzoni's History of the New World]. Frankfurt: Johann Feyrabend, 1594. Two engraved title-pages (one is a repeat), second issue, with "Ad |Invistis. Rudolphus II. Rom. Imperator. | Cum privilegio [not prevelegio] S.C."; full-page engraving of armorial shields and virtues, double-page folding engraved map of the Caribbean and adjacent areas, engraved text illustration of Columbus led by marine deities, engraved allegorical text illustration "Americae retectio," 24 engraved plates , second issue, with roman numerals in the letterpress titling and ar abic numerals on the plates. The numbers 2, 6, and 6 in 16 were engraved in reverse. Has blank leaves R6 and 2F6. O3 correctly signed, contrary to Church. (Church 154). PART V. FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE. AMERICAE PARS QUINTA SECUNDAE SECTIONIS HIA [HISTORIAE] HISPANORUM [Benzoni's History, continued]. Frankfurt: Theodor de Bry, 1595. Engraved title-page (with one repeat), double-page engraved map of Mexico, engraved portrait of Columbus on a2r of preface, 20 (of 22) numbered engraved plates, woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces, with blank leaves l3-4 and F4. With points: c2 is signed C2; d1 is signed D, e2 is signed E2; k2 is incorrectly signed k3. Page 6 is unnumbered, p. 26 misnumbered 29; p. 74 misnumbered 24, and pp. 79-82 numbered 89-92. (Church 156). PART VI. FIRST EDITION. AMERIC". Signed by Author(s). …

Theodor de Bry (1528-1598) was an engraver, goldsmith, editor and publisher. Forced to flee his native Liege in the Spanish-controlled Southern Netherlands by the Spanish Inquisition de Bry moved around Europe, finally settling in Frankfurt. Inspired in part by Richard Hakluyt, whom he met in England in 1587, he began the publication of a collection of voyages, of which this forms a part. His work was continued after his death by his sons Johann Theodor and Johann Israel, who completed Parts VII and VIII of the Grands Voyages and the Petits Voyages, so called because of the difference in size of the paper used! The works were immediately popular and provided the standard European image of the Americas and the East Indies. This Part contains: I. An extract giving an account of the discovery of Hudson's Bay; II. A short account of the two voyages made to the north by Linschoten; III. An account of De Quiros voyage and discovery of the new continent, Terra australis incognita; IV and V. Extracts relative to the Samoiedes and other people of the North and a description of Siberia by Isaac Massa. First edition. Text in Latin. Folio (31.5 x 20 cm), 32pp. (including pictorial engraved title page), + Icones, seu Tabulae Chorographicae with separate title page decorated with printers flowers, 3 leaves of illustrations, the first 2 with text to recto, image to verso, the third with text beneath image (verso blank), and 3 double-page engraved maps, full green morocco gilt by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, a fine copy.…

1. Original-Kupferstich von de Bry auf rückseitig unbedrucktem Büttenblatt mit dekorativ abgesetztem Plattenrand, bildliche Darstellung ca. 13 x 10,5 cm, Blattgröße ca. 20 x 15 cm, sauber und sehr gut erhalten, sehr selten 2100 gr.

Unbound. Condition: Very Good. Portfolio. Color facsimiles of 36 historical maps. Each map measures approximately 12" x 9", printed on 17" x 11½" paper with descriptive text in the left margin. Housed with a title page sheet and unprinted top sheet in a four-fold chemise. Unprinted topsheet sunned at the edges, first two leaves with some very light toning and a couple of tiny corner creases; the maps are otherwise bright and fine. The chemise is good only with toning, wear, and soil, and a 1" creased tear on the cover panel. A nice production, and the chemise has done its job, keeping the maps bright and fresh.…

1. Original-Kupferstich von Matthäus Merian dem Älteren, nicht signiert, auf rückseitig unbedrucktem Büttenblatt, Blattgröße ca. 23 x 34 cm, in der Platte gekennzeichnet als Tafel "25", von alter Hand ankoloriert, rückseitig alte Montagereste (war gerahmt), leichte Alterspatina, ansonsten bemerkenswert gut erhalten, von großer Seltenheit und für uns anderenorts antiquarisch nicht nachweisbar 2100 gr.…

Unbound. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Language: German. Emblemata Saecularia. Cultural-historical family and coat of arms book by Johann Theodor de Bry. With an introduction on family books of the 17th century. Edited by Friedrich Waenecke. Berlin, J. A. Stargardt, 1894. In-4 and ff under a publisher's portfolio with flaps, 102 plates, the portfolio is worn, the interior is in very good condition. [This description may have been translated by AI.] 0. …

Technic: Copper print, colorit: original colored, condition: Perfect condition, size (in cm): 28 x 18,5 cm, The map depicts the battle of Las Salinas. The Battle of Las Salinas was a military conflict and decisive confrontation between the forces of Hernando and Gonzalo Pizarro against those of rival conquistador Diego de Almagro, on April 26, 1538, during the Conquest of Peru. Both camps claimed to represent the authority of the Spanish Crown. Pizarros forces controlled the province of Nueva Castilla, and those of Almagro, Nueva Toledo. After an hour of carnage, the battle yielded a victory for Pizarros forces: with Almagro captured and his lieutenant, Rodrigo Orgonez killed on the field of battle, the Pizarros routed the enemy and took possession of Cuzco. Almagro was executed in July 1538. De Bry?s Grand Voyages, an illustrated collection of accounts of the Americas, defined the early European picture of the New World. Published by Matthäus Merian. (1st edition 1597).…

Technic: Copper print, colorit: original colored, condition: Perfect condition, size (in cm): 26,5 x 18,3 cm, First edition from the 8th book, part 3 - Sir Walter Raleigh in search of El Dorado in the year 1595. Back side without text.

Technic: Copper print, colorit: original colored, condition: Perfect condition, size (in cm): 29,5 x 17,5 cm, The illustration shows the 10 Spaniards who were attacked, beaten, and robbed by the locals near the town of Manoa in Guyana. The Spanish governor Don Antonio de Berrio sent them out to scout the gold-rich capital Manoa. First edition from the 8th book, part 3 - Sir Walter Raleigh in search of El Dorado in the year 1595.…

Technic: Copper print, colorit: original colored, condition: Perfect condition, size (in cm): 27,5 x 18 cm, The illustration shows how Colonel Sir Walter Raleigh meets the King of Aromaia in Guyana and has gifts in kind delivered to the colonel. Sir Walter Raleigh was a colonel under Sir Thomas Cavendish, an English privateer and the third circumnavigator of the world. First edition from the 8th book, part 3 - Sir Walter Raleigh in search of El Dorado in the year 1595.…

11 parts in 3 volumes. Exquisitely bound set of the Latin edition of one of the finest works on the Americas. The work is very rare. It is especially exceptional to find a set that contains multiple parts. The present set, however, contains eleven parts, including hundreds of beautifully engraved maps and plates. The beautiful binding was made by the so-called Double Drawer Handle Bindery, active in Amsterdam between 1697 and 1742(?), which was known for binding many multi-volume and large-size works. This remarkable work is responsible for shaping the European image of the New World in the 16th and 17th centuries. Although travel narratives were incredibly popular at the time and were published at a staggering pace, very few of them were illustrated. The present work, which is a collection of multiple important travel accounts on the Americas, allowed readers to see for the first time what these travellers described. The plates depict the Native American people and their culture, shaping European iconography of them for more than a century after.The first two parts of the work are devoted to Virginia, the Carolinas, and Florida. They provide an account of the first attempts of the British and French to colonise the New World. The engravings are some of the best ethnographic documents of Native American life in the 16th century. The third part is made up of two accounts related to Brazil and includes one of the first detailed accounts of South American indigenous peoples. Parts 4, 5, and 6 are made up of Girolamo Benzoni's Historia de Mondo Nuevo (1565), an important history of the Spanish conquest of the West Indies. Part 8 includes travel accounts by Francis Drake, Walter Raleigh, and Thomas Cavendish. Part 9 consists of important accounts relating to Latin America and the Pacific, including the work of José de Acosta and the Pacific voyages of Olivier van Noort and Sebald de Weert. The final two parts include travel accounts by Amerigo Vespucci, and Willem Schouten, who discovered the Le Maire Strait and Cape Horn.The maps in the work show various parts of North and South America. The map of Virginia in the first part is considered "One of the most significant cartographical milestones in colonial North American history. It was the most accurate map drawn in the sixteenth century of any part of that continent. . This is the first map to focus on Virginia (now largely North Carolina), and records the first English attempts at colonisation in the New World" (Burden 76). The map of Florida, in the second part, is remarkable because it was based on native sources rather than French ones. Although it is not very accurate, it became quite influential, because Hondius used it in his atlas in 1606. The other maps in the work show South America, the West Indies, Mexico, the Americas, Guiana, the Strait of Magellan, and Tierra del Fuego.The different parts of The Voyages were published over the course of nearly half a century. Because of this, the first parts of the series ran out of print while the later parts were still being issued. New editions of the earlier parts were then quickly republished, often assembled from remnants of earlier issues. As a result, no two sets of the work are the same. Each set is a combination of languages, editions and issues, and none of them can be said to be "complete". The title pages and engravings of the present set mostly correspond to the second issue of the first edition. It is largely in Latin, but contains a German map in part 8. It contains all the engraved plates that are present in other copies. The digitised copy of the University of Genève includes three maps (in part 10 and 11) that are not present in our copy. However, they seem to be missing from other copies as well.With the bookplate of Gladys Robinson mounted on the front pastedown of the first volume, and a Dutch manuscript message to the binder on the back of the map in part 8. The work is slightly browned throughout, with some leaves affected more than others, small brown stains on some of the leaves, the corners of some of the leaves have been restored, wormholes in the lower margin on the first few leaves of part 8, not affecting the text. Overall in very good condition.l Cat. of John Carter Brown Library, I, p.382-414; Church p.316-404; Huth p.404-418; Camus, A. G., Mémoire sur la collection des Grands et petits voyages, p.1-181; Sabin 8784; Stillwell, M., Incunabula and Americana p. 76-77; cf. Alexander, M., (ed.), Discovering the New World, based on the works of Theodore de Bry; Burden 76, 79, 80, 83, 91, 130, 131 (maps); Storm van Leeuwen I, pp. 228-284 (binding). 18th-century gold-tooled Dutch red morocco, bound by the Double Drawer Handle Bindery in Amsterdam, gold-tooled spines, with green morocco title labels lettered in gold, marbled edges, marbled endpapers. With 11 maps (mostly folding), 300 engraved plates (double-page, full-page and in text), engraved title pages to each part, numerous decorated woodcut initials, and numerous woodcut head- and tailpieces.…