Olfert Dapper Arnoldus Montanus (59 results)

Condition: New. pp. 900.

Condition: New. pp. 900.

Condition: New. pp. 900.

3 parts in 1 volume. First and only edition of an extensive and important history and description of Amsterdam, richly illustrated with nearly 120 maps, plans, and views. It is a compilation of several of the most important works on Amsterdam, published separately in 1663 and 1664, which were brought together, edited, and updated by the Amsterdam historian and director (Regent) of the Amsterdam Theatre, Tobias van Domselaer (1611-1685) under whose name the work became known. It gives a very good impression of the time when Amsterdam grew into one of the most important cities of the world.The work is divided into 6 "books." Book I is taken from Arnoldus Montanus' 1664 Beschrijvinge der Eerste Inwoonders van Amstellandt . Books II-IV are expanded from the 1664 Beschrijvingh der Wijdt-vermaarde Koop-stadt Amstelredam, nominally a third edition of Melchior Fokkens's 1662 description, but a considerably different text, said to be the work of Domselaer and Commelin. Books V & VI are attributed mostly to Olfert Dapper and apparently updated from his 1663 Historische Beschryving der Stadt Amsterdam, including information about, for example, the weekly number of burials for the whole of 1663 and 1664 and the division of burials among the various churches. The appendix lists city officials up to and including the year 1665, and ministers of the Dutch Reformed church.The Haarlem Courant for 29 September 1665 announced the work's publication. It is typographically interesting, with some types cut by Christoffel van Dijck, but also some not cut by him that appear to be new at this date, including the rare Ascendonica (about 24 point) italic used for many of the chapter headings.The edges and corners of the boards are somewhat scuffed, the top of the spine is torn, without losses, lacking part of the headband, the boards are somewhat rubbed and scratched. Internally lightly browned and foxed. Otherwise in good condition.l Nijhoff & V. Hattum 80; NNBW 8, cols. 408-409; STCN 844195251 (16 copies, of which 1 incomplete); cf. for the maps and city views: D'Ailly, Plattegronden, 16-17, 51, 142, 182 & Profielen, 5, 96-97; for some of the illustrations: Hollstein (Dutch and Flemisch), XXXII, pp. 187-205, nos. 3-71; and LI, pp. 195-199, nos. 1-6. Slightly later gold-tooled mottled calf, sewn on 5 supports with the corresponding raised bands on the spine, the title lettered in gold on the spine, a double fillet border along the edges of the boards, red and grey sprinkled edges. With an engraved allegorical frontispiece, 8 engraved plates (1 folding, 7 double-page), and 111 engravings in the text. Pages: [8], 284, [2], 312, 446, [114] pp.…

Condition: Good. Folio. 26 x 42cm. [vi), 724pp. Contemporary gilt paneled calf with later gilt calf spine and repaired innner hinges. .Sub-title: The Second and Third Embassy to [the] Empire of Taysing or China.Bookplate dated 1738 of Thomas Trevor, 2nd Baron Trevor of Bromham (1692-1753).Printed in red and black throughout: With one engraved double-page map; six single page plates; 31 double page plates and 57 third page engravings. Very good without foxing.OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:35077336; Cox I, 326; Cordier BS 2349;Kress 01964.2; Landwehr VOC 545.…

No Binding. Condition: A tiny red spot at the right edge of the engraving, a few small spots, minor wear along the lower edge, and light toning. | An engraved scene of armadillos, an opossum, and a peccary appears in this excerpted leaf from the Puerto Rico section of the 1673 German edition of Arnoldus Montanus's account of the Americas. | In the center of the scene, an armadillo labeled Tatou I noses through the grass in its banded, scaly shell while a second, Tatou II, lies curled into a ball beneath a fruiting branch at right. A long-tailed Opassum prowls along the rise behind them, and in the foreground a bristly peccary labeled Javaris roots at the ground beside an open husk scattered with seeds. | The text below begins at the end of a description of an animal that carries its young in a pouch (apparently the opossum seen here) and then turns to the tatou. Armored with hard scales, it is said to have a snout like a pig's and five sharp claws on each foot, and when it sleeps or is chased it tucks its head, legs, and tail under its shell like a ball, as Tatou II here has done. The text goes on to recount a yearly feast that the people of Puerto Rico are said to have held before the Spaniards came. At their lord's drumbeat they gathered at the idol house, the men painted in many colors and hung with shells, to dance and sing in the idol's praise. They then purged themselves with small sticks pushed down their throats and sat cross-legged to sing a mournful song while the women carried baskets of bread that the priests blessed and distributed. The text closes by noting that this worship vanished along with the native people whom the Spaniards destroyed with great cruelty. The reverse describes the enslaved Africans brought in to work the mines and sugar mills in their place, the brutal punishments the text says they suffered, and the runaways who banded together on Hispaniola. It then opens a chapter on Bermuda, named for the Spanish captain Bermúdez and also called the Somers Isles after George Somers, whose ship was wrecked there. | Arnoldus Montanus (ca. 1625-1683), a Dutch minister and schoolmaster, compiled De Nieuwe en Onbekende Weereld from earlier chronicles and travel accounts without ever crossing the Atlantic. The Amsterdam publisher Jacob van Meurs issued it in 1671 with a wealth of engravings. John Ogilby's English adaptation followed the same year, and Die Unbekante Neue Welt, the German edition attributed to Olfert Dapper, followed in 1673. Its illustrations were drawn by artists who had mostly never seen the Americas either. They mix reported detail with European invention, and they shaped how a generation of European readers pictured the New World. | Size: 12 x 7.5 inches.…

No Binding. Condition: Chips and small losses along the left edge, show-through of the reverse text in the sky of the engraving, a brown stain at the lower right corner, and light toning. | An engraved scene of the Dutch siege of Mina Castle in Guinea appears in this excerpted leaf from the Brazil section of the 1673 German edition of Arnoldus Montanus's account of the Americas. | In the center of the scene, Dutch musketeers in broad-brimmed hats lunge forward through billowing gunsmoke into a crowd of African warriors who swing axes overhead or fall back onto the ground. At left, a column of pikemen presses in behind them. In the foreground, a fallen soldier lies face down beside his hat with a dead warrior sprawled across the ground next to him. Behind the warriors, a line of men hold up long poles topped with severed heads before a row of domed huts. Beyond them, a towered castle behind a palisade stands on a rise at left above ranks of soldiers, and a ship lies at anchor in the bay. | The scene appears to show the battle outside the Portuguese castle of Mina (São Jorge da Mina, at modern-day Elmina in Ghana) described in the text below. The book tells the story in its account of Dutch Brazil because Count Maurits sent the expedition from there. In 1637 Johan Koin is said to have sailed for Guinea with nine warships, joined the commander Ipern at Kommendo, and camped behind a hill close below the castle. The local Africans, alarmed by these movements, made what the text calls a strange peace with the Dutch, promising to remain their friends if Koin took the castle and to void the agreement if he failed. As the army of eight hundred soldiers and five hundred sailors halted within a cannon shot of Mina, a thousand warriors burst from a thick wood with such fury that only the expertise of its veterans saved them. The warriors cut off the heads of the Dutch they killed and carried them on long raised poles as a spectacle like the ones seen here. Godlat brought up the musketeers in support, but Colonel Latan still fell along with forty of his men. The reverse tells how the attackers at last fell back beneath the castle, how Koin bombarded it from a nearby hill, and how on the sixth day of the siege the castellan surrendered what the text calls an excellent and otherwise invincible fortress on shameful terms. The garrison was to march out unarmed, without flags or burning matches, and be shipped to São Tomé, leaving all its gold and silver to the victors. The reverse then returns to Brazil, where Colonel Schuppen laid waste to Sergipe del Rey and drove off three thousand cattle to starve the enemy. | Arnoldus Montanus (ca. 1625-1683), a Dutch minister and schoolmaster, compiled De Nieuwe en Onbekende Weereld from earlier chronicles and travel accounts without ever crossing the Atlantic. The Amsterdam publisher Jacob van Meurs issued it in 1671 with a wealth of engravings. John Ogilby's English adaptation followed the same year, and Die Unbekante Neue Welt, the German edition attributed to Olfert Dapper, followed in 1673. Its illustrations were drawn by artists who had mostly never seen the Americas either. They mix reported detail with European invention, and they shaped how a generation of European readers pictured the New World. | Size: 12 x 7.5 inches.…

No Binding. Condition: Show-through of the reverse text in the engraving, a few small spots in the upper margin, slight wear at the lower right edge, and light toning. | An engraved scene of Peruvians tending llamas appears in this excerpted leaf from the Origins of the Americans chapter of the 1673 German edition of Arnoldus Montanus's account of the Americas. | In a mountain valley, men in feathered headdresses tend a group of llamas. One strokes the neck of a dark llama, another raises a hand beside a llama lying on the ground, and spear-bearers stand by a fenced pen. More llamas graze on the slopes behind, where two archers draw their bows. The engraving follows the text below, which quotes José de Acosta on the llama. Found only in Peru, it carries loads, lives on the grass along the roads, and comes in two kinds, the woolly paco and the short-haired moromoro. The text adds that a tired llama will stare at its drivers as if to devour them. The paco sometimes collapses under its load and will not stir even if cut to pieces, so the best remedy is to sit beside it and stroke it until it rises on its own. The engraving appears to show that moment. The reverse belongs to the book's debate on where the Americans came from. It sets out Hugo Grotius's case for a Norse origin, built partly on word likenesses such as llama and the German Lam, and Johannes de Laet's rebuttal. | Arnoldus Montanus (ca. 1625-1683), a Dutch minister and schoolmaster, compiled De Nieuwe en Onbekende Weereld from earlier chronicles and travel accounts without ever crossing the Atlantic. The Amsterdam publisher Jacob van Meurs issued it in 1671 with a wealth of engravings. John Ogilby's English adaptation followed the same year, and Die Unbekante Neue Welt, the German edition attributed to Olfert Dapper, followed in 1673. Its illustrations were drawn by artists who had mostly never seen the Americas either. They mix reported detail with European invention, and they shaped how a generation of European readers pictured the New World. | Size: 12 x 7.5 inches.…

No Binding. Condition: A brown stain in the upper right margin, a small chip in the right edge, a tiny reddish spot in the text, and light toning. | An engraved scene of Chilean herders with long-necked sheep and an ox rider appears in this excerpted leaf from the America's Discoverers chapter of the 1673 German edition of Arnoldus Montanus's account of the Americas. | In the center of the scene, a long-haired rider sits on a horned ox and holds up two disks ringed with bells. A child clings behind her, and a man in a feathered headband leads the ox by a rope. To the left, a man with a bow stands beside a figure carrying a tray, and between them graze long-necked, woolly animals. | The engraving follows the text below on the animals and herders the Dutch met during Joris van Spilbergen's voyage along the coast of Chile. The text describes a strange sheep with a long neck, a hump like a camel's, a hare-lipped mouth and long legs, used for farming and carrying loads, with some owners grazing as many as eight hundred. The shepherdesses are said to ride animals much like oxen and hold copper lids hung with bells, which they shake in rhythm to drive the sheep in or out. Shepherds wear tall feathers on their heads, servants walk ahead, and children sit behind the shepherdess. The same page follows Spilbergen past Isla Santa María and Valparaíso where he burned Spanish villages and into a night battle against Rodrigo de Mendoza's fleet. The text says a Spanish nobleman kept hauling down the white flag of surrender because he would rather die than yield. The reverse closes Olivier van Noort's circumnavigation. It tells the story of a Spanish captain who threw ten thousand pounds of gold overboard in fifty-two chests rather than let the ship be taken. The reverse then opens Spilbergen's voyage for the Dutch East India Company. | Arnoldus Montanus (ca. 1625-1683), a Dutch minister and schoolmaster, compiled De Nieuwe en Onbekende Weereld from earlier chronicles and travel accounts without ever crossing the Atlantic. The Amsterdam publisher Jacob van Meurs issued it in 1671 with a wealth of engravings. John Ogilby's English adaptation followed the same year, and Die Unbekante Neue Welt, the German edition attributed to Olfert Dapper, followed in 1673. Its illustrations were drawn by artists who had mostly never seen the Americas either. They mix reported detail with European invention, and they shaped how a generation of European readers pictured the New World. | Size: 12 x 7.5 inches.…

No Binding. Condition: Small reddish spots in the text on both sides, a few scattered spots, faint soiling at the lower right, and light toning. | An engraved scene of a papaya grove and hunters stalking waterbirds appears in this excerpted leaf from the "Cannibal Islands" (modern-day St. Martin) section of the 1673 German edition of Arnoldus Montanus's account of the Americas. | In the center of the scene, a burst of musket smoke rises beneath a papaya tree from a hunter at right camouflaged under an ox hide beside a second disguised hunter. In the foreground a variety of native fauna are shown: a long-necked bird with a broad spoon-shaped bill standing on a rock at the water's edge as another swims nearby, lizards basking on the bank, and a waterbird flying low over the plain. Behind them, trees labeled Arbor Papaya droop with long leaves and clusters of fruit, a pineapple and a halved fruit full of seeds lie on the shore, and a palisade and houses stand on the hill beyond. | Both sides of the leaf belong to the book's account of the Caribbean islands. The text below finishes a description of the papaya, which is said to bear new fruit every month, fleshy and sweet and shaped not unlike a woman's breast, with a center of round, pungent seeds like those in the cut fruit here. It then turns to St. Martin, famous for its salt pans, and to the Dutch West India Company fleet under Adriaen Pater and Maarten Thijssen. The fleet waited in vain for the Spanish silver fleet, took on more than a thousand goats at Blanca and a hundred thousand lemons on Hispaniola, and in 1629 anchored before the town and fortress of St. Martin. The reverse explains the hunters. Flamingos crowd the island's salt ponds, it says, and post a sentry that cries out and flies off at any sound, so hunters creep downwind under an ox hide until they are close enough to shoot. Because the text compares the flamingo to the spoonbill, the artist may have drawn spoonbills in its place. The reverse goes on to St. Martin's division between the French and the Dutch after the Spaniards abandoned it in 1648 and to the soap trees of St. Barthélemy. | Arnoldus Montanus (ca. 1625-1683), a Dutch minister and schoolmaster, compiled De Nieuwe en Onbekende Weereld from earlier chronicles and travel accounts without ever crossing the Atlantic. The Amsterdam publisher Jacob van Meurs issued it in 1671 with a wealth of engravings. John Ogilby's English adaptation followed the same year, and Die Unbekante Neue Welt, the German edition attributed to Olfert Dapper, followed in 1673. Its illustrations were drawn by artists who had mostly never seen the Americas either. They mix reported detail with European invention, and they shaped how a generation of European readers pictured the New World. | Size: 12 x 7.5 inches. …

No Binding. Condition: A ragged left edge with small chips, faint staining at the lower right, a few small spots, and light toning. | An engraved scene of Ulloa's men fighting warriors by a great fire appears in this excerpted leaf from the "California" (modern-day Baja California) section of the 1673 German edition of Arnoldus Montanus's account of the Americas. | In the center of the scene, a great fire sends flames and a towering column of smoke into the night sky as warriors in tall feathered headdresses crowd around it with clubs and bows, one raising a spiked club above the throng. At right, a line of Spanish musketeers fires into them from beneath a hedge of pikes while a dog lunges at the fallen in the foreground. More bands of warriors gather on the plain and the hills beyond. | The engraving appears to show a clash during Francisco de Ulloa's voyage along the coast of California, described in the text below. Sailors who went ashore for fresh water are said to have been set upon so suddenly by two bands of very tall Indians that the sentries noticed nothing until the fighting had begun. The attackers shot arrows and hurled stones while dancing and shrieking until Ulloa came to the rescue and drove them back with gunfire. Three fierce Spanish dogs, the text adds, did great slaughter among them, and the survivors built a great fire like the one seen here and kept still around it before slipping away after dark, each carrying a burning brand. The same page tells of an Indian who escaped capture by diving under the water and of the pilot Juan Castellón rowing by moonlight into the mouth of a sea that seemed to stretch more than thirty miles. The reverse follows Ulloa past the Cape of the Holy Trinity to Isla de Cedros, where the fleet's dogs ran down two Indians whom he then released with gifts. Most of his men turned back for New Spain but Ulloa sailed on, and the text notes that no one ever learned where he ended up. The reverse then opens the 1539 overland journey of the friar Marcos de Niza, who heard of a land called Cíbola with seven great cities of stone houses whose doors were set with turquoise. | Arnoldus Montanus (ca. 1625-1683), a Dutch minister and schoolmaster, compiled De Nieuwe en Onbekende Weereld from earlier chronicles and travel accounts without ever crossing the Atlantic. The Amsterdam publisher Jacob van Meurs issued it in 1671 with a wealth of engravings. John Ogilby's English adaptation followed the same year, and Die Unbekante Neue Welt, the German edition attributed to Olfert Dapper, followed in 1673. Its illustrations were drawn by artists who had mostly never seen the Americas either. They mix reported detail with European invention, and they shaped how a generation of European readers pictured the New World. | Size: 12 x 7.5 inches.…

No Binding. Condition: A small brownish stain in the lower center of the engraving, a few small spots in the lower margin, and light toning. | An engraved scene of cacti and a sweet potato vine appears in this excerpted leaf from the Jamaica section of the 1673 German edition of Arnoldus Montanus's account of the Americas. | In the center of the scene, a tall cactus labeled Jamacaru IIII rises in tiers of spiny pads among five more cacti numbered Jamacaru I through VI, from a broad fleshy plant at right to a leafy shrub ringed with spines at left. Across the foreground trails a vine labeled Batata (the sweet potato) with tubers showing at the edge of the bank. Behind them, figures sit before a long arched hut with houses and hills beyond. | The text below belongs to the book's account of Jamaica's plants. It closes a passage on a fruit whose royal kind is said to be the very best, good against weakness of the stomach, the stone, poison, and sadness, with a pressed juice that yields nothing to malmsey. It then turns to the island's many evergreen herbs, among them a plant with brown-red spotted leaves and a fragrant violet flower whose leaves wilt as soon as they are touched. Ginger is described as being brought to Jamaica by the Spaniards and to thrive there, ripe once its leaves wither, and cotton grows on a tree like a red fir, its red blossoms turning to pods that hide the wool and seeds like peppercorns. The page ends with the island's three Spanish towns of Sevilla, Melilla, and Oristán and notes that no trace remains of the town of Vega, from which, the text says, Columbus and his son Diego took their title of duke. The reverse tells how the English captain Anthony Shirley took Sevilla in 1596 and how, after sixty-one quiet years under Spain, Oliver Cromwell, whom the text calls the English tyrant, sent eleven ships that seized the whole island. It then opens the chapter on Puerto Rico, which Columbus is said to have named San Juan Bautista in November 1493 and which its people called Borinquen. | Arnoldus Montanus (ca. 1625-1683), a Dutch minister and schoolmaster, compiled De Nieuwe en Onbekende Weereld from earlier chronicles and travel accounts without ever crossing the Atlantic. The Amsterdam publisher Jacob van Meurs issued it in 1671 with a wealth of engravings. John Ogilby's English adaptation followed the same year, and Die Unbekante Neue Welt, the German edition attributed to Olfert Dapper, followed in 1673. Its illustrations were drawn by artists who had mostly never seen the Americas either. They mix reported detail with European invention, and they shaped how a generation of European readers pictured the New World. | Size: 12 x 7.5 inches.…

No Binding. Condition: A small hole in the running head, a dark stain in the right column of text, a few small spots in the margins, show-through of the reverse text, and light toning. | An engraved scene of Balboa's war dogs at Quarequá appears in this excerpted leaf from the America's Discoverers chapter of the 1673 German edition of Arnoldus Montanus's account of the Americas. | Beneath the arches of a columned hall, a Spaniard in a plumed hat, holding a round shield, points as war dogs maul men sprawled on the floor. One of the men throws up his arms in terror, musketeers look on from the right, and a man in a ruff bends over a fallen figure. Through the openings behind them, Spanish troops fire on a fleeing crowd. The engraving appears to show Vasco Núñez de Balboa at Quarequá (modern-day Panama) in 1513, the episode that ends the reverse. There the text says that six hundred of the inhabitants were cut down or torn apart by forty Spanish dogs. In the king's palace, Balboa found the king's brother and other men in women's clothing and had them thrown to the dogs for what the text calls the sin of sodomy. The text below carries Balboa on to the South Sea. It credits him as the first European to see it, from a mountain peak where he raised a heap of stones and a cross, and it follows him to the bay he named for St. Michael. The reverse opens with Pedrarias Dávila's voyage of 1514 and the starving colony at Veragua, where, the text says, a toad was bought for a great lump of gold. | Arnoldus Montanus (ca. 1625-1683), a Dutch minister and schoolmaster, compiled De Nieuwe en Onbekende Weereld from earlier chronicles and travel accounts without ever crossing the Atlantic. The Amsterdam publisher Jacob van Meurs issued it in 1671 with a wealth of engravings. John Ogilby's English adaptation followed the same year, and Die Unbekante Neue Welt, the German edition attributed to Olfert Dapper, followed in 1673. Its illustrations were drawn by artists who had mostly never seen the Americas either. They mix reported detail with European invention, and they shaped how a generation of European readers pictured the New World. | Size: 12 x 7.5 inches.…

No Binding. Condition: A ragged left edge with small chips, a small brown spot in the left margin, and light toning. | An engraved scene of a ship wrecked on the rocks of the Abrolhos appears in this excerpted leaf from the Brazil section of the 1673 German edition of Arnoldus Montanus's account of the Americas. | In the center of the scene, a three-masted ship heels over against a towering crag, its masts and yards knocked askew as the surf bursts white against the rocks. Storm clouds roll over the cliffs, and at left, a second ship rides the swell in the distance. In the foreground, a swordfish leaps from the churning waves. | The scene appears to show the shipwreck whose story runs across both sides of the leaf. Its details match the 1629 wreck of the Dutch East India Company ship Batavia, though the ship is not named here. The text below tells how the under-merchant Jeronimus Cornelisz and others had planned to seize the ship and sail it to a Spanish port or to Dunkirk to prey on Dutch shipping, a plot cut short when the ship broke apart on the rocks of the Abrolhos. The commander Francisco Pelsaert had the women, children, and sick ferried to an island and two nearby rocks before the storm smashed the ship to pieces. The sailors left aboard are said to have clung to the wreckage and swum for shore through the breakers, and Cornelisz to have survived two days in the mast. With water running short, Pelsaert sailed for the Dutch base at Batavia (modern-day Jakarta) to fetch help, and in his absence Cornelisz carried out what the text calls his "cursed villainy." The reverse tells how his followers killed nearly everyone on the island while Wiebbe Hayes held out on a rocky outcrop with some forty people, beat back their attacks, and seized Cornelisz. When Pelsaert returned with the yacht Sardam, eleven of the mutineers sailed out dressed in scarlet trimmed with gold braid and were taken prisoner. The text places the story in its account of Brazil, apparently confusing the Abrolhos shoals off the Brazilian coast with the Houtman Abrolhos off Western Australia, where the Batavia was actually wrecked. The reverse then turns to Porto Seguro and the capybara, a tailless "water-pig" said to graze the riverbanks at night in great herds with a horrible cry. | Arnoldus Montanus (ca. 1625-1683), a Dutch minister and schoolmaster, compiled De Nieuwe en Onbekende Weereld from earlier chronicles and travel accounts without ever crossing the Atlantic. The Amsterdam publisher Jacob van Meurs issued it in 1671 with a wealth of engravings. John Ogilby's English adaptation followed the same year, and Die Unbekante Neue Welt, the German edition attributed to Olfert Dapper, followed in 1673. Its illustrations were drawn by artists who had mostly never seen the Americas either. They mix reported detail with European invention, and they shaped how a generation of European readers pictured the New World. | Size: 12 x 7.5 inches.…

No Binding. Condition: A few small spots and light toning. | An engraved scene of tobacco, sassafras, and wildlife on Tobago appears in this excerpted leaf from the "Cannibal Islands" (modern-day Tobago) chapter of the 1673 German edition of Arnoldus Montanus's account of the Americas. | In the center of the scene, a tall flowering plant labeled Petume, an old name for tobacco, spreads its long leaves and bell-shaped blossoms beside a leafy tree marked Auhiuba sive Sassafras. Snakes coil at either side of the foreground with two long-snouted animals crouched between them. Beneath the trees at right dark figures sit before a long arched hut, and in the distance a band of men with spears crosses the plain. | Both sides of the leaf describe Tobago, which the book counts among its Cannibal Islands. Tobacco like the plant seen here is said to bloom once a year with bright violet bells that give way to seed heads shaped like poppy pods, and growers cut back the tops of the stalks to keep it from shooting up too high. The hummingbird, the text adds, sometimes builds its nest beneath the tobacco leaves. The same column tells how Zeeland citizens of Walcheren sent some two hundred settlers to Tobago, most of whom were cut down by the Caribs, until Lampsins took up the work again and resettled the island. It closes with St. Christopher, which Columbus is said to have named for a great mountain bearing a smaller one on its slope like the giant Christopher carrying the Christ child across the sea. The reverse turns to Tobago's wildlife, from snakes as thin as a thumb that hunt grasshoppers and birds but harm no one to the sassafras tree, whose bark gives off a fennel-like scent and serves as a remedy for wounds. It also tells the story of crabs that wedge a pebble between an oyster's shells so it cannot close. | Arnoldus Montanus (ca. 1625-1683), a Dutch minister and schoolmaster, compiled De Nieuwe en Onbekende Weereld from earlier chronicles and travel accounts without ever crossing the Atlantic. The Amsterdam publisher Jacob van Meurs issued it in 1671 with a wealth of engravings. John Ogilby's English adaptation followed the same year, and Die Unbekante Neue Welt, the German edition attributed to Olfert Dapper, followed in 1673. Its illustrations were drawn by artists who had mostly never seen the Americas either. They mix reported detail with European invention, and they shaped how a generation of European readers pictured the New World. | Size: 12 x 7.5 inches.…

No Binding. Condition: Brown staining in the upper margin, a ragged left edge with small chips, and light toning. | An engraved scene of the Aztec god Tezcatlipoca enthroned appears in this excerpted leaf from the New Mexico section of the 1673 German edition of Arnoldus Montanus's account of the Americas. | In the center of the scene, a dark-skinned idol in a feathered headdress sits on a low bench before a curtain strewn with skulls and crossed bones. In his right hand he raises a round mirror fringed with feathers, and in his left he holds a shield pierced by arrows. At left, worshippers kneel and bow, while at right, seated figures and a spearman wait beside the bench. | The figure appears to be Tezcatlipoca, whose image is described on the reverse. Said to forgive sins, the god held a fan of gold plate ringed with colored feathers that shone like a mirror in which he was believed to see all worldly things. As lord over hunger, drought, barrenness, and plague, he took another form—he sat on a bench behind a red curtain embroidered with skulls and bones, his body pitch-black, holding a shield set with four arrows like the one seen here. The reverse goes on to describe Quetzalcoatl, god of merchants, whose image had the face of a bird with a red beak and a long tongue, and then opens the chapter on New Galicia, where the text recommends quince juice against scorpion stings. The text below finishes a description of Huitzilopochtli, with a gaping beak full of teeth in his belly and two fiery eyes flickering in his chest before turning to Tlaloc and the goddess Toci. It closes with the festival of Toci's son, a god of the hunt, whose image was carried up a high mountain while the crowd set fire to the brush around its foot and drove the game to the summit, where it is said to have been slaughtered by the thousands for a feast. | Arnoldus Montanus (ca. 1625-1683), a Dutch minister and schoolmaster, compiled De Nieuwe en Onbekende Weereld from earlier chronicles and travel accounts without ever crossing the Atlantic. The Amsterdam publisher Jacob van Meurs issued it in 1671 with a wealth of engravings. John Ogilby's English adaptation followed the same year, and Die Unbekante Neue Welt, the German edition attributed to Olfert Dapper, followed in 1673. Its illustrations were drawn by artists who had mostly never seen the Americas either. They mix reported detail with European invention, and they shaped how a generation of European readers pictured the New World. | Size: 12 x 7.5 inches.…

No Binding. Condition: A pale tideline stain in the upper left margin, gray soiling at the lower right corner, show-through of the reverse text, and light toning. | An engraved scene of Pinzón's men capturing a strange beast appears in this excerpted leaf from the America's Discoverers section of the 1673 German edition of Arnoldus Montanus's account of the Americas. | In a palm forest by the sea, with a ship lying offshore, a large long-tailed animal with a heavy pouch beneath its belly noses at a tree while two young forage at its feet. Spaniards in broad hats close in from behind the trunks, one readying a noose. The scene follows the text below on Vicente Yáñez Pinzón's voyage of 1499-1500. Among trees so thick that sixteen men could not encircle them, he found a wondrous animal with a fox's forequarters, a monkey's hindquarters, nearly human feet and ears like an owl's, which carried its young in a pouch under its belly. The creature is widely identified as an opossum. Pinzón caught one with three young. The young died on the way, but the mother reached the Spanish king at Granada alive. The same page tells of footprints twice the size of a man's and a skirmish in which eight Spaniards were lost. The reverse follows Pinzón through a storm so severe that his men proposed killing one another, then opens Amerigo Vespucci's voyage to Paria. | Arnoldus Montanus (ca. 1625-1683), a Dutch minister and schoolmaster, compiled De Nieuwe en Onbekende Weereld from earlier chronicles and travel accounts without ever crossing the Atlantic. The Amsterdam publisher Jacob van Meurs issued it in 1671 with a wealth of engravings. John Ogilby's English adaptation followed the same year, and Die Unbekante Neue Welt, the German edition attributed to Olfert Dapper, followed in 1673. Its illustrations were drawn by artists who had mostly never seen the Americas either. They mix reported detail with European invention, and they shaped how a generation of European readers pictured the New World. | Size: 12 x 7.5 inches.…

No Binding. Condition: A small dark ink mark across the right-hand figure's feathered headdress, show-through of the reverse text above the engraving, and light toning and soiling. | An engraved scene of Indigenous Brazilian daily life appears in this excerpted leaf from the Brazil section of the 1673 German edition of Arnoldus Montanus's account of the Americas. | Beneath a steep peak, two Brazilians meet in the foreground. On the left, a porter in a cloth cap carries a large woven basket slung from a strap across the forehead and a tray of produce in both hands; on the right, a man in a feathered headdress gestures toward the porter with one hand on his hip. Behind them, a seated man rests beside a quiver of arrows, another with a spear stands by a palisade, and figures lounge in a hammock slung between palms. The engraving appears to illustrate the text below on the Brazilians' "form and manner," as its margin note puts it, which claims they grow tall early, age slowly and never go gray or bald, and that several households share a single palm-thatched hut shaped almost like an upturned club. The other column describes the mountainous interior, where thistles with hollow leaves hold dew and rain for the inhabitants to drink. The reverse turns to food and daily life: manioc flour tossed into the mouth with three fingers so that not a crumb falls, hammocks tied between two posts with a fire kept burning beside them, and drinks brewed from maize and pineapple. | Arnoldus Montanus (ca. 1625-1683), a Dutch minister and schoolmaster, compiled De Nieuwe en Onbekende Weereld from earlier chronicles and travel accounts without ever crossing the Atlantic. The Amsterdam publisher Jacob van Meurs issued it in 1671 with a wealth of engravings. John Ogilby's English adaptation followed the same year, and Die Unbekante Neue Welt, the German edition attributed to Olfert Dapper, followed in 1673. Its illustrations were drawn by artists who had mostly never seen the Americas either. They mix reported detail with European invention, and they shaped how a generation of European readers pictured the New World. | Size: 12 x 7.5 inches.…

No Binding. Condition: A small chip at the right edge, a faint stain in the upper margin, a tiny reddish spot on the engraving, and light toning. | An engraved scene of an Aimoré cannibal seizing a victim appears in this excerpted leaf from the Brazil chapter of the 1673 German edition of Arnoldus Montanus's account of the Americas. | In the center of the scene, a pale man with long hair hoists a dark-skinned man in a feathered skirt upside down and bites at his thigh. A child stands just beyond them and to their right, a man in a hide skirt bends over a ribcage. Behind them, pale archers draw enormous bows from behind a ridge, aiming at warriors in feathered headdresses who brandish spears on the slope opposite, one of them tumbling backward. | The scene appears to show the Aimoré, whom the text below calls the Guaimurer and describes as the wildest and most savage of all the peoples of the Americas. They are said to have been as big and strong as giants, with white skin and frightfully large bows and arrows like the ones seen here, and to have lived without houses or huts under the open sky. The text claims they devoured human flesh like tigers and even ate their own children, and that rather than fighting in bands, each lay in wait alone to fall upon a person or an animal unawares. Driven from the coast between the São Francisco River and Cape Frio by the Tupinambá and Tupiniquim, they are said to have raided the captaincy of Ilhéus so relentlessly that the Portuguese abandoned several sugar mills and then the whole region. The reverse describes five kinds of what it calls Brazilian rabbits, among them the paca, which grunts like a pig, and a small spotted cavy so tame that it demands its food by grunting and thrives when carried to distant lands (apparently the guinea pig). It also describes the palms of Porto Seguro, whose fruit fattened monkeys and pigs, and the town of Ilhéus with its eight sugar mills and Jesuit house. | Arnoldus Montanus (ca. 1625-1683), a Dutch minister and schoolmaster, compiled De Nieuwe en Onbekende Weereld from earlier chronicles and travel accounts without ever crossing the Atlantic. The Amsterdam publisher Jacob van Meurs issued it in 1671 with a wealth of engravings. John Ogilby's English adaptation followed the same year, and Die Unbekante Neue Welt, the German edition attributed to Olfert Dapper, followed in 1673. Its illustrations were drawn by artists who had mostly never seen the Americas either. They mix reported detail with European invention, and they shaped how a generation of European readers pictured the New World. | Size: 12 x 7.5 inches.…

No Binding. Condition: Show-through of the reverse text across the engraving, a small dark ink mark at its top edge, scattered small spots in the margins, and light toning. | An engraved scene of an Indigenous archer and figures in feathered cloaks appears in this excerpted leaf from the America's Discoverers section of the 1673 German edition of Arnoldus Montanus's account of the Americas. | On a wooded plain where long-horned animals graze beneath palms, an archer, bare but for a loincloth and with a quiver at his hip, draws a bow hung with feathers. To the left stand two figures in cloaks of layered feathers, one with a striped headcloth and strings of beads. At right, a group in feathered headdresses and striped garments points and gestures toward the archer. The figures appear to illustrate the text below, which a margin note labels "the dress of the Mexicans." It describes commoners who go almost naked before their lords, covered only at the loins and armed with bows and arrows, while the nobles wear strings of pearls, costly caps hung with two bands, and multicolored cotton robes reaching to the calf. The same column mentions the lawyer sent from Spain to knight Cortés in the Order of Santiago, then opens the account of Diego Gutiérrez's 1540 voyage as governor of New Cartago. The reverse follows Gutiérrez inland. He threatened to roast the chief Camachire alive unless he filled a chest with gold six times over, and another captive told him he could not understand how the earth could bear such Christians. | Arnoldus Montanus (ca. 1625-1683), a Dutch minister and schoolmaster, compiled De Nieuwe en Onbekende Weereld from earlier chronicles and travel accounts without ever crossing the Atlantic. The Amsterdam publisher Jacob van Meurs issued it in 1671 with a wealth of engravings. John Ogilby's English adaptation followed the same year, and Die Unbekante Neue Welt, the German edition attributed to Olfert Dapper, followed in 1673. Its illustrations were drawn by artists who had mostly never seen the Americas either. They mix reported detail with European invention, and they shaped how a generation of European readers pictured the New World. | Size: 12 x 7.5 inches.…

No Binding. Condition: A ragged left edge with small chips, scattered small brown spots in the margins, and light toning and soiling. | An engraved scene of an Indigenous ritual dance with three feathered priests appears in this excerpted leaf from the Brazil section of the 1673 German edition of Arnoldus Montanus's account of the Americas. | In the center of the scene, a man in a cloak and skirt of feathers stands on a low wooden crate with one foot raised, holding a feather-crowned rattle aloft with his other hand on his hip. Two more men in feathered cloaks flank him, each raising a rattle and holding a long pipe. Around them, men bend forward in a loose ring with tufts of feathers bound behind them and cloths knotted at their hips, some with a hand lowered toward the ground and others with a hand tucked behind the feathers. Behind them, a palisade and a roofed gateway stand before long arched thatched houses and palms. | The scene follows a dance described in the text below, which attributes it to the Tapuya. Eighteen, twenty, or more dancers are said to have formed a ring, each with a many-colored plume tied over the buttocks "like a Turkish turban" by a band passing over the left shoulder. Each leaned forward with the left hand hanging down and the right tucked between the plume and the body, stamping the right foot while all sang, much as the dancers seen here do. The songs are described as opening with a mournful account of a great flood that swept away their ancestors before turning to the praise of their heroes. The same page tells how the Brazilians dried tobacco and smoked it in pipes made from a reed and a hollowed nut. The reverse names the three central figures as priests, each holding an image of the idol Maraka, which the text likens to an ostrich egg crowned with feathers much like the rattles raised here. The middle priest is said to have lifted his left foot from the ground again and again, while the other two blew tobacco smoke from twisted pipes and called out "Receive the spirit of manly strength." The reverse goes on to Brazilian bows, clubs, and trumpets made from human leg bones, and to the Brazilian grammar the Jesuit José de Anchieta published at Coimbra in 1595. | Arnoldus Montanus (ca. 1625-1683), a Dutch minister and schoolmaster, compiled De Nieuwe en Onbekende Weereld from earlier chronicles and travel accounts without ever crossing the Atlantic. The Amsterdam publisher Jacob van Meurs issued it in 1671 with a wealth of engravings. John Ogilby's English adaptation followed the same year, and Die Unbekante Neue Welt, the German edition attributed to Olfert Dapper, followed in 1673. Its illustrations were drawn by artists who had mostly never seen the Americas either. They mix reported detail with European invention, and they shaped how a generation of European readers pictured the New World. | Size: 12 x 7.5 inches.…

No Binding. Condition: Heavy tideline staining in the upper left margin, what appears to be a paper repair strip along the lower left edge, a few small spots, and light toning. | An engraved scene of Inuit and a kayak from Frobisher's voyages appears in this excerpted leaf from the America's Discoverers section of the 1673 German edition of Arnoldus Montanus's account of the Americas. | Beside a tent pitched beneath a palm, three figures in hooded fur coats stand together, one holding a spear. On the water beyond, a paddler in a long, pointed boat raises a bow, while arrows and birds fly toward a rocky headland and a ship lies offshore. | The engraving appears to illustrate the text below on the people Martin Frobisher met in the far north of America. Tents like the one seen here are described as being woven of whalebone and covered with stretched hides, with their doors always facing south. Their largest boats are said to carry seventy people. The smaller ones were of leather, shaped almost like a weaver's shuttle, with a hole in the middle where a single man sat, laced the leather cover around his waist, and drove the boat along very fast with one oar. The text calls the land barren, home only to deer, wolves, hares, polar bears and wolf-like dogs, all eaten raw. Frobisher returned to Milford Haven with shining stones he took for gold and with a man, a woman, and a child the text names Kalichoe, Egnoge and Nutiok, all of whom soon died in London. The reverse follows Francis Drake's voyages. In one, a king crowned Drake with a golden crown, and in another the English found the Spanish king's arms at Santo Domingo with the motto Non sufficit orbis, "the world is not enough." It goes on to the voyages of Thomas Cavendish and John Smith. | Arnoldus Montanus (ca. 1625-1683), a Dutch minister and schoolmaster, compiled De Nieuwe en Onbekende Weereld from earlier chronicles and travel accounts without ever crossing the Atlantic. The Amsterdam publisher Jacob van Meurs issued it in 1671 with a wealth of engravings. John Ogilby's English adaptation followed the same year, and Die Unbekante Neue Welt, the German edition attributed to Olfert Dapper, followed in 1673. Its illustrations were drawn by artists who had mostly never seen the Americas either. They mix reported detail with European invention, and they shaped how a generation of European readers pictured the New World. | Size: 12 x 7.5 inches.…

No Binding. Condition: Chips and small losses along the left edge, show-through of the reverse text in the sky of the engraving and the upper margin, and light toning. | An engraved scene of a figure burning on a stone altar appears in this excerpted leaf from the "New Spain" (modern-day Mexico) section of the 1673 German edition of Arnoldus Montanus's account of the Americas. | In the center of the scene, a figure lies on a stone altar engulfed in flames as black smoke billows across the sky. At right, a figure stands on a pedestal carved with a serpent, one arm raised, before a panel showing small figures with axes climbing a hill. Men in feathered headdresses kneel beside the pedestal and stretch their hands toward the fire, and at the far right, a man draped in a white cloth raises a broad blade. At left, a man in a feathered headdress pours something from a long-handled pan beside the logs of the fire as spearmen raise their arms behind him. | The engraving is uncaptioned and neither side of the leaf describes a burning like the one seen here. The text below describes the temple maidens of Mexico, whom it calls nuns. They are said to have risen at midnight with the priests to play flutes and conch horns, burn incense, and draw blood from their ears to smear on their faces. A rat running through a maiden's chamber or a bat flying through it was taken as a sign that she had broken her vow of chastity, for which she was condemned to a horrible death. Above them lived young men who kept the ever-burning fire before the altar of Huitzilopochtli, served by boys who strewed flowers in the temple and sharpened the priests' lancets. The reverse opens with the text's claim that the bloodshed of this worship had long horrified the people of New Spain, which it offers as the reason they accepted the Roman faith so readily. It then describes a procession in which the maidens shaped an image of Huitzilopochtli from amaranth seed and roasted maize mixed with honey, and young men ran with it to Chapultepec and Coyoacán before it was carried back to the city. | Arnoldus Montanus (ca. 1625-1683), a Dutch minister and schoolmaster, compiled De Nieuwe en Onbekende Weereld from earlier chronicles and travel accounts without ever crossing the Atlantic. The Amsterdam publisher Jacob van Meurs issued it in 1671 with a wealth of engravings. John Ogilby's English adaptation followed the same year, and Die Unbekante Neue Welt, the German edition attributed to Olfert Dapper, followed in 1673. Its illustrations were drawn by artists who had mostly never seen the Americas either. They mix reported detail with European invention, and they shaped how a generation of European readers pictured the New World. | Size: 12 x 7.5 inches. …

No Binding. Condition: An amber stain running through the upper left and center of the engraving, scattered spots in the margins, and light toning. | An engraved scene of Taíno turtle fishing on the coast of Cuba appears in this excerpted leaf from the America's Discoverers section of the 1673 German edition of Arnoldus Montanus's account of the Americas. | In the foreground, Taíno fishermen in a canoe hunt a sea turtle with a guaican, which one of them grips in his hands as it latches onto the turtle's shell. Behind them, snakes hang from the trees along the shore and fish roast on a wooden rack outside two huts, while a band of men watches from the clifftop as Spanish soldiers and a boat of oarsmen approach from the anchored fleet. The scene matches the narrative on the reverse of Columbus's voyage along the coast of Cuba in 1494. There his men found fish roasting on spits beside empty huts, snakes hanging by cords from the trees, and some seventy men watching from a high rock. The same page describes the guaican itself, an eel-like fish with a great sacklike head that the Taíno used to seize fish and turtles. The text on the front recounts the founding of Isabela on Hispaniola, the remarkable fertility of its fields, and Columbus's march inland in search of gold, where he built the fort of Santo Tomás. | Arnoldus Montanus (ca. 1625-1683), a Dutch minister and schoolmaster, compiled De Nieuwe en Onbekende Weereld from earlier chronicles and travel accounts without ever crossing the Atlantic. The Amsterdam publisher Jacob van Meurs issued it in 1671 with a wealth of engravings. John Ogilby's English adaptation followed the same year, and Die Unbekante Neue Welt, the German edition attributed to Olfert Dapper, followed in 1673. Its illustrations were drawn by artists who had mostly never seen the Americas either. They mix reported detail with European invention, and they shaped how a generation of European readers pictured the New World. | Size: 12 x 7.5 inches.…

No Binding. Condition: A ragged left edge with small chips, a few small brown spots in the margins, and light toning. | An engraved scene of a man on a stone slab facing a knife appears in this excerpted leaf from the "New Spain" (modern-day Mexico) section of the 1673 German edition of Arnoldus Montanus's account of the Americas. | In the center of the scene, a man lies propped on one elbow on a low stone slab while a crouching figure in a feathered headdress reaches toward his chest with a knife. At left, men in tall feathered headdresses and arm rings point toward him from beside a striped canopy, and spearmen crowd in at right. Behind a fence of stakes, a row of spectators looks on. In the distance, two warriors with shields and curved blades duel before thatched huts and a watching crowd. | The engraving is uncaptioned and neither side of the leaf describes the scene. It may show a captive about to be sacrificed while another fights in the distance, though the text does not confirm this reading. The text below turns to the province of Pánuco, where the Spaniards held the three towns of Pánuco, Santiago de los Valles, and Tampico. It draws on the account of Miles Philips, one of the Englishmen John Hawkins put ashore on the coast of New Spain in 1568, who found Pánuco—a town of two hundred Spanish citizens living mostly by the trade in salt made in pans along the river. It then turns to the journal John Chilton kept four years later, which tells of only twelve Spaniards living among thirty thousand Indians at Metztitlán. The reverse follows Chilton on to Tampico and Pánuco, where he fell gravely ill and, lost in a wild forest, was given clear water from a gilded Venetian glass by people living in small straw huts. The Spaniards at Santiago de los Valles are said to have told him that his rescuers were cannibals who had stolen the glass when they burned an Augustinian monastery, and that they had spared him only because his sickly look made them fear he carried a plague. | Arnoldus Montanus (ca. 1625-1683), a Dutch minister and schoolmaster, compiled De Nieuwe en Onbekende Weereld from earlier chronicles and travel accounts without ever crossing the Atlantic. The Amsterdam publisher Jacob van Meurs issued it in 1671 with a wealth of engravings. John Ogilby's English adaptation followed the same year, and Die Unbekante Neue Welt, the German edition attributed to Olfert Dapper, followed in 1673. Its illustrations were drawn by artists who had mostly never seen the Americas either. They mix reported detail with European invention, and they shaped how a generation of European readers pictured the New World. | Size: 12 x 7.5 inches.…

No Binding. Condition: What appear to be old hinge remnants along one edge of the reverse, small chips at the left edge, show-through of the reverse text, and light toning. | An engraved scene of a human sacrifice at a stone lion idol appears in this excerpted leaf from the America's Discoverers section of the 1673 German edition of Arnoldus Montanus's account of the Americas. | Before a landscape dotted with idols on pedestals, a body lies across the shoulders of a great stone lion, its blood streaming into a stone trough as a pale standing figure leans over it. To the right, worshippers in feathered headdresses gather at a fire beside a towering crowned idol flanked by monkey-faced figures. Skulls, ribs and bones lie scattered in the foreground. | The scene follows the text below almost exactly: it describes a ritual wherein a lion stood among various idols with a man on its shoulders, his throat cut so that his blood ran into a stone trough, and an alabaster figure bent over the trough to look at the blood. The text says the victims were captives from neighboring lands, whose hearts were cut out and smeared on the lips of the idols. It then describes Potonchan, capital of the Tabascans, with more than five thousand houses of baked brick. The Spaniards marveled at how the Tabascans sealed alliances by drawing blood from their tongues, hands and arms, before the expedition returned to Cuba. The reverse turns to Bartolomé de las Casas, whom the text calls a bishop, and his failed colony at Cumaná, settled with three hundred Spanish farmers he had dressed as knights bearing red crosses. It closes with the opening of Magellan's voyage. | Arnoldus Montanus (ca. 1625-1683), a Dutch minister and schoolmaster, compiled De Nieuwe en Onbekende Weereld from earlier chronicles and travel accounts without ever crossing the Atlantic. The Amsterdam publisher Jacob van Meurs issued it in 1671 with a wealth of engravings. John Ogilby's English adaptation followed the same year, and Die Unbekante Neue Welt, the German edition attributed to Olfert Dapper, followed in 1673. Its illustrations were drawn by artists who had mostly never seen the Americas either. They mix reported detail with European invention, and they shaped how a generation of European readers pictured the New World. | Size: 12 x 7.5 inches.…

No Binding. Condition: Faint show-through of the reverse text in the upper margin, and light toning and soiling, heavier along the edges. | An engraved scene of the Dutch siege of Porto Calvo appears in this excerpted leaf from the Brazil chapter of the 1673 German edition of Arnoldus Montanus's account of the Americas. | Columns of troops wind up a hillside toward a church and walled buildings beneath a mountain, while clouds of gunsmoke rise from the slopes. In the foreground, a massed body of pikemen advances under banners, a drummer beats a great drum, and musketeers with shouldered matchlocks file past officers in plumed hats standing beneath the palms. The engraving appears to show Johan Maurits of Nassau-Siegen's 1637 siege of the castle at Porto Calvo, the subject of the text on both sides of the leaf, and the smoke may stand for the hill forts that the Count of Bagnuolo had mined and that the Dutch found blown up and still smoking. The text below follows the siege to its thirteenth day, when, after bombardment from four batteries, the castle surrendered, yielding twenty-two bronze and five iron cannon from what the text calls the Spanish crown's arsenal in Brazil. The reverse covers Maurits's arrival at Recife in January 1637, the day of fasting and prayer he called before marching south, and his defeat of Bagnuolo outside Porto Calvo. | Arnoldus Montanus (ca. 1625-1683), a Dutch minister and schoolmaster, compiled De Nieuwe en Onbekende Weereld from earlier chronicles and travel accounts without ever crossing the Atlantic. The Amsterdam publisher Jacob van Meurs issued it in 1671 with a wealth of engravings. John Ogilby's English adaptation followed the same year, and Die Unbekante Neue Welt, the German edition attributed to Olfert Dapper, followed in 1673. Its illustrations were drawn by artists who had mostly never seen the Americas either. They mix reported detail with European invention, and they shaped how a generation of European readers pictured the New World. | Size: 12 x 7.5 inches.…

No Binding. Condition: Chips and small losses along the left edge and at the upper corners, brown staining in the left margin, a few small reddish spots on the engraving, a tiny hole in the lower text, and light toning. | An engraved scene of an Indigenous man and woman appears in this excerpted leaf from the Chile section of the 1673 German edition of Arnoldus Montanus's account of the Americas. | In the center of the scene, a man in a long striped garment with a beaded collar and his hair tied up on top of his head shoulders a club, his free hand held open toward the figures at right. Facing him at left, a woman with rings in her long curling hair reaches out a hand, her floor-length gown pinned at the throat and open over her breasts. Between them, a kneeling woman with a child bound to her back grips a long stick. At right, two figures in shaggy cloaks lean beside a low table set with a basket and a jug. Low roofs show behind them, and in the distance a man and a child walk along a ridge beneath a steep cliff. | The figures follow the text below on the dress of the Chileans. The men are said to wear wide loose trousers tied at the loins and over them a woolen garment three and a half ells long and two wide, with a hole in the middle for the head, so that it hangs from the shoulders much like the one the man wears here. The women wear the same woolen cloth in another way, tying an apron around the loins and pinning a long skirt that reaches the ground at the throat with silver or brass pins, leaving the head, breast, and feet uncovered as the woman at left does. These garments are described as striped in white, red, blue, and egg yellow. The text calls the women very hard and strong by nature and cites Heinrich Brauer (the Dutch commander Hendrik Brouwer), who reported that women aboard his ship walked about half an hour after giving birth and that some nursed the children tied to their backs by throwing their long breasts over their shoulders. It adds that families lived in very low huts of straw, reed, and rushes, grouped by clan under a chief they called the karaka, and kept little at home beyond two or three jugs of chicha, a horn cup, a grinding stone, and a stool or two. The reverse describes how whole neighborhoods plowed and sowed together each October while the weeding and harvest were left to the women, and how a suitor bought his bride from her father with sheep, cattle, and barrels of chicha. It also tells of the wedding song sung to the god Maruapeante and of the lamb, called chiluraque, slaughtered for a feast after a birth. | Arnoldus Montanus (ca. 1625-1683), a Dutch minister and schoolmaster, compiled De Nieuwe en Onbekende Weereld from earlier chronicles and travel accounts without ever crossing the Atlantic. The Amsterdam publisher Jacob van Meurs issued it in 1671 with a wealth of engravings. John Ogilby's English adaptation followed the same year, and Die Unbekante Neue Welt, the German edition attributed to Olfert Dapper, followed in 1673. Its illustrations were drawn by artists who had mostly never seen the Americas either. They mix reported detail with European invention, and they shaped how a generation of European readers pictured the New World. | Size: 12 x 7.5 inches.…

No Binding. Condition: Show-through of the reverse text in the sky of the engraving, and light toning and soiling, heavier along the edges. | An engraved scene of an Indigenous Brazilian man and woman appears in this excerpted leaf from the Brazil chapter of the 1673 German edition of Arnoldus Montanus's account of the Americas. | A Brazilian woman and man stand in an open landscape, with a ship offshore and palms in the distance. The woman wears a broad flat hat, a bead necklace and a wrapped skirt tied with a sash, a long pipe tucked into it and a small basket in her hand; the man, nude but for a feathered cap, carries long darts across his shoulder and in his outstretched hand, while a figure sits behind him beneath a wide round sunshade. The pair follow the text beside them point for point, from the stone the man wears in his pierced lower lip, which the text calls metara, and his three long darts and feathered cap, to the reed tobacco pipe tucked into the band of the woman's apron. That description comes directly after the two Brazilians whom Pedro Álvares Cabral sent back to Portugal, so the pair appear to be those two. The same column recounts the discovery of Brazil, from the voyage it credits to Amerigo Vespucci in 1497 to Cabral's landing with thirteen ships. The reverse closes the Peru chapter with tales of Augustinian friars confronting local sorcerers and idols, then opens the Brazil chapter, explaining that Cabral named the land Santa Cruz because he found it on the feast of the Holy Cross, and that it was later named for brazilwood. | Arnoldus Montanus (ca. 1625-1683), a Dutch minister and schoolmaster, compiled De Nieuwe en Onbekende Weereld from earlier chronicles and travel accounts without ever crossing the Atlantic. The Amsterdam publisher Jacob van Meurs issued it in 1671 with a wealth of engravings. John Ogilby's English adaptation followed the same year, and Die Unbekante Neue Welt, the German edition attributed to Olfert Dapper, followed in 1673. Its illustrations were drawn by artists who had mostly never seen the Americas either. They mix reported detail with European invention, and they shaped how a generation of European readers pictured the New World. | Size: 12 x 7.5 inches.…

No Binding. Condition: Light toning and soiling, a few small spots in the margins, and minor wear along the edges. | An engraved scene of Indigenous people at the Strait of Magellan appears in this excerpted leaf from the Magellanica chapter of the 1673 German edition of Arnoldus Montanus's account of the Americas. | Beneath a broad palm, a man gripping a bow stands beside a woman holding up a bird, a small child at her side and a cloaked figure before them. In the distance, warriors with bows and spears fall upon a group of figures near a cluster of conical huts while a boat of rowers crosses the water. The figures follow the book's description, printed just below, of the people of Tierra del Fuego, who painted their bodies in many colors and wore cords about their necks. The same page recounts the fate of Pedro Sarmiento's settlements on the Strait of Magellan, abandoned to starvation. The reverse continues with the voyages of Olivier van Noort and of Schouten and Le Maire, whose expedition charted Cape Horn and the strait that bears Le Maire's name, along with a report of giants said to stand eleven feet tall. | Arnoldus Montanus (ca. 1625-1683), a Dutch minister and schoolmaster, compiled De Nieuwe en Onbekende Weereld from earlier chronicles and travel accounts without ever crossing the Atlantic. The Amsterdam publisher Jacob van Meurs issued it in 1671 with a wealth of engravings. John Ogilby's English adaptation followed the same year, and Die Unbekante Neue Welt, the German edition attributed to Olfert Dapper, followed in 1673. Its illustrations were drawn by artists who had mostly never seen the Americas either. They mix reported detail with European invention, and they shaped how a generation of European readers pictured the New World. | Size: 12 x 7.5 inches.…