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Year:: 1612
Contributor:: Raleigh, Walter, 1552?-1618; Hondius, Jodocus, 1563-1612; Hulsius, Levinus, -1606
Subject:: s-gy---; El Dorado; Guiana > Discovery and exploration; Guiana > Description and travel; Imprint 1612.; Germany > Frankfurt am Main
Extent:: [5], 17, [2] p., [7] leaves of plates (2 folded) : ill., map ; 21 cm. (4to)

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Notes:: Virgules replaced by commas in title page transcription.; This work has been identified as the fourth edition of part five by Church. There are three issues of the fourth edition, the first (Church no. 278) in which the vignette on the title page has been cracked from top to bottom, the second which is not detailed (Church no. 278b), and the third (Church no. 279) in which the vignette has no trees in the background, has the engraver's mark on the bottom and has the figures more deeply shaded.; Constitutes the fifth part of Sammlung von sechs und zwanzig Schiffahrten in verschiedene fremde Länder durch Levinus Hulsius und einige Andere, aus dem Holländischen ins Deutsche übersetzt und mit allerhand Anmerrkungen versehen, compiled by Levinus Hulsius, and printed in 26 parts in Nuremberg, Frankfurt am Main, Oppenheim, and Hanau from 1598 to 1663.; Translation and abridgement of: The discouerie of the large, rich, and bevvtiful empyre of Guiana, with a relation of the great and golden citie of Manoa (which the Spanyards call El Dorado) and of the prouinces of Emeria, Arromaia, Amapaia, and other countries, with their riuers, adioyning. Performed in the yeare 1595 / by Walter Raleigh, printed in London, 1596.; First edition printed in Nuremberg, 1599 under title: Kurtze Wunderbare Beschreibung. Dess Goldreichen Königreichs Guianae im America, oder newen Welt, vnter der Linea Aequinoctiali gelegen: so newlich Anno 1594. 1595. vnnd 1596. von dem wolgebornen Herrn, Herrn Walthero Ralegh, einem englischen Ritter, besucht worden.; Signatures: A-C⁴ (A1, C4 versos blank); Engraved vignette of natives and animals on title page; head and tail pieces; initials.

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"Die fünffte kurtze wunderbare Beschreibung, dess Goldreichen Königreichs Guianae in America oder newen Welt, vnter der Linea Aequinoctiali gelegen: so neulich Anno 1594. 1595. vnd 1596. von dem wolgebornen Herrn, Herrn Walthero Ralegh einem englischen Ritter, besucht worden: erstlich auss befehl seiner Gnaden in zweyen Büchlein beschrieben, darauss Jodocus Hondius, eine schöne Landt Tafel, mit einer niderländischen Erklärung gemacht. Jetzt aber ins Hochteutsch gebracht, vnd auss vnterschiedlichen Authoribus erkläret " (1612). John Carter Brown Library. Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library. https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:580234/

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