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Year:: 1598
Contributor:: Linschoten, Jan Huygen van, 1563-1611; Lonicerus, Johann Adam, 1557-; Bry, Theodor de, 1528-1598; Bry, Johann Israel de, -1611; Bry, Johann Theodor de, 1561-1623
Subject:: as----- > fe----- > a-ii---; Linschoten, Jan Huygen van > 1563-1611; East Indies > Description and travel; India > Description and travel; China > Description and travel; Africa, East > Description and travel; Imprint 1598.; Germany > Frankfurt am Main
Extent:: [12], 134, [8] p., [47] leaves of plates (2 folded, 2 double folded) : ill., maps, port., plan ; 30 cm. (fol.)

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Notes:: Erstlich im Jahr 1596. aussführlich in Holländischer Sprach beschrieben, durch Joan Hugo von Lindschotten auss Hollandt, welcher in 13. Jahren solches meinst alles persönlich zugegen gesehen, vnd selbst erfahren hat. Jetzo aber von newem in Hochteutsch bracht, vnd mit künstlichen schönen Figuren, in Kupffer gestochen, gezieret an Tag geben, durch Hans Dieterich vnd Hans Israel von Bry Gebrüder.; Virgules replaced by commas in title page transcription.; Constitutes the second part of Theodor de Bry's Small voyages, printed in 13 parts and an Appendix in Frankfurt am Main and Oppenheim from 1597 to 1633.; This work has been identified as the first German edition of part two of the Small voyages by Church.; Translation of selections of: Itinerario, voyage ofte schipvaert, van Ian Huygen van Linschoten naer Oost ofte Portugaels Indien / by Jan Huygen van Linschoten, first printed Amsterdam, 1596.; This part contains the relation of the voyages of Jan Huygen van Linschoten to Africa and the East Indies from 1583-1592. The work was first printed in Holland in 1596, and was first translated into German by the de Brys in 1598 and afterwards by them into Latin. This part, translated by Anneaus Lonicerus, contains the first forty-four chapters. Cf. Church.; "Folgen hernacher eigentliche vnd warhaffte Fürbildungen aller frembden Völcker in Orient, so von dem anfang Africae biss in China an den Gestaden des Meers wohnen, sampt derselben vnd anderer Insulanern Ceremonien vnd Sitten, auch wie die Portugaleser sampt ihren Weibern vnd Sclauen sich alda verhalten. Beneben warhaffter Beschreibung vnd Erklärung der Bildnussen, so vnder jede Figur ordentlichen gesetzt. Alles zierlich in schönen Kupfferstücken fürgebildet, vnd jetzo von neuem an Tag geben, durch Hans Dietherich vnd Hans Israel von Bry, Gebrüder vnd Bürger zu Franckfurt", p. [7], 3rd count, has separate title page with imprint: Gedruckt zu Franckfurt am Meyn, durch Johann Saur, M D. XCVIII. [1598]; Signatures: (?)⁶ ((?)1 verso blank) A-R⁴ chi² (chi1, chi2 versos blank) a1 (a1 verso blank); Errors in paging: p. 39, 40, and 66 are misnumbered 37, 38, and 64 respectively.; Includes index.; Fully engraved and illustrated title page; engraved head and tail pieces; initials.; Contains 2 double plates, 2 double folded maps, and 1 plate of coins in the 2nd count; 38 numbered leaves of plates (of which no. 37 is a folded plate), are printed on recto only and are signed a2-k3 following separate dated title page, p. [7-8], 3rd count.

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"Ander Theil der Orientalischen Indien, Von allen Völckern, Insulen, Meerporten, fliessenden Wassern vnd anderen Orten, so von Portugal auss, lengst dem Gestaden Aphrica, biss in Ost Indien vnd zu dem Landt China, sampt andern Insulen zu sehen seind: Beneben derenselben Aberglauben, Götzendienst vnd Tempeln, item von jren Sitten, Trachten, Kleidungen, Policeyordnung, vnd wie sie hausshalten, beid so viel die Portugesen, welche dam im Landt wohnen, vnd auch das inheimische Landvölcklein anlangt. Dessgleichen von der Residentz dess Spanischen Viceroys vnd anderer Spanier in Goa, item von allen Orientalischen, Indianischen Waaren vnd Kummerschafften: sampt deren Gewichten, Masen, Müntzen vnd ihrem Valor oder Wirdtgung " (1598). John Carter Brown Library. Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library. https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:580253/

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