Description
- Notes:
- en beschreeven door Arnoldus Montanus.
- Authorship contested; in the German translation, published two years later under the title: Die unbekante Neue Welt, oder Beschreibung des Welt-Teils Amerika, und des Sud-Landes. Amsterdam, 1673, Olfert Dapper is credited with being the author of the original edition in Dutch. For controversey, see Library chronicle of the University of Texas.
- According to Moraes, several issues exist, differing in the absence or presence of some lines of red type on the title page and in the absence or presence of the portrait of Prince Maurice of Nassau; other distinguishing features are the signing of the folded map of America and the location of the bridge in the engraving of Cuzco (inserted following p. 342); however, the combination of features observed in the copy described does not match those mentioned by Moraes.
- Title vignette.
- Added engraved title page: America. t'Amsterdam by Jacob van Meurs, plaetsnyder en boeckverkooper op de Keysersgraft in de stadt Meurs. 1671.
- Signatures: * A-4G 4G (*1 verso, *2 verso blank)
- Plates, as well as text illustrations (69), unnumbered.
- Includes index.
- Contains scattered words and phrases in Tupi and Mapuche.
- Errors in paging.
Citation
"De Nieuwe en onbekende Weereld: of Beschryving van America en 't Zuid-Land:
vervaetende d'oorsprong der Americænen en Zuid-Landers, gedenkwaerdige togten derwaerds, gelegendheid der vaste kusten, eilanden, steden, sterkten, dorpen, tempels, bergen, fonteinen, stroomen, huisen, de natuur van beesten, boomen, planten en vreemde gewasschen, gods-dienst en zeden, wonderlijke voorvallen, vereeuwde en nieuwe oorloogen: Verciert met af-beeldsels na 't leven in America gemaekt
"
(1671).
John Carter Brown Library.
Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library.
https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:576840/
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