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- Notes:
- durch Jacob le Moyne, sonst Morges genannt, der alles selbst gesehen, vnd desshalben fürnemlich in diese Landtschafft verschickt worden. Auss dem Frantzösischen in Latein beschrieben, durch C.C.A. Vnd jetzt auss dem Latein in Teutsch bracht, durch den Ehrwirdigen H. Oseam Halen. Auch mit schönen vnd künstreichen Kupfferstücken, vnd deren angehenckten, Erklärung, alles an Tag gegeben, durch Dieterich von Bry, Bürger in Franckfort am Mayn, Anno 1591. Cum gratis & priuil. Caes Maiest. ad quadrennium.
- Virgules replaced by commas in title page transcription.
- "Die gegen Nidergang gelegen" in first part of title page transcription printed within parentheses.
- Constitutes the second part, only issue of the first German edition of Theodor de Bry's Great voyages, printed in fourteen parts, in Latin, German, French, and English, in Frankfurt am Main, Oppenheim, and Hanau from 1590-1644, and the Elenchus, an outline of the thirteen Latin parts, published by Matthias Merian in Frankfurt am Main in 1634.
- This work had been identified as the second part, only issue of the first German edition of the Great voyages by Church.
- The first and second editions of German part two can be identified by the letterpress text printed below illustrations on the plates, the appearance of a colophon, and the numbering of pages 1-42, 2nd count. Please see Chrurch for a full accounting.
- The C.C.A., on the title-page, are the initials of Carolus Clusius Artebatensis, i.e. Charles de L'Écluse, the celebrated botanist. Cf. Church.
- German translation, by Oseam [possibly Hosea?] Halen, of the Latin edition of the second part of the Great voyages of de Bry printed under title ""Brevis narratio eorum quae in Florida Americae provi[n]cia Gallis acciderunt", which was a translation of: L'histoire notable de la Floride / by Jacques le Moyne de Morgues, first printed Paris, 1586.
- Colophon reads: Gedruckt zu Franckfurt am Mäyn, bey Johann Feyrabendt in Verlegung Theodorici von Bry.
- Incorrectly attributed to René de Laudonniere by Alden.
- This part gives an account of the unfortunate expeditions of the French Huguenots to Florida under Jean Ribaut (1562); René de Laudonnière (1564); and Dominique de Gourgues (1567). The account of the expedition under Laudonnière was written by Jacques le Moyne, surnamed de Mourgues, an artist who accompanied the expedition. He escaped the massacre by the Spaniards at Fort Caroline and went to England where he dies. After his death his manuscripts and drawings were sold by his widow to de Bry, by whom they were first published. The authors of the other two narratives are unknown. Cf. Chruch.
- "Die ander Schiffahrt der Frantzosen in Floridam, so eine Landtschafft in America ist, geschehen vnter dem Obersten Laudonniero, Anno M. D. LXIIII", p. I-XXVII, has separate caption title.
- "Warhafftige vnnd eygentliche Beschreibung der dritten Schiffahrt, der Frantzosen, in Florida, (welche in dieser Historia die ander ist) geschehen vnter den Häuptmann Herrn Johann Ribaldt, im Jar 1565", p. XXIX-XLII, has separate caption title.
- "Warhafftige Abconterfaytung der Wilden in America, so daselbst erstlichen lebendiger weise abgerissen, von Jacob le Moyne, oder Morges genannt. Jetzt aber in Kupffer gestochen, vnd an Tag gegeben, durch Dieterich von Bry. Vnd ist vnter einer jeden Figur ein kurtze Erklärung. Getruckt zu Franckfort am Mayn, bey Johann Feyerabendt, in Verlegung dess vorgedachten Dieterichen von Bry. Cum gratis & priuil. Caes. Maiest. ad Quadriennium", p. [3-4], 3rd count, has separate, engraved dated title page with imprint: Francoforti ad Moenvm typis Ioa[n]nis Wecheli, sumtibus vero Theodori de Bry Anno M D XCI. Venales reperiu[n]tur in officina Sigismundi Feirabe[n]dii.
- "Vnterhänige Supplication vnd Sendbrieff, an König Carlen, den Neundten, dieses Namens, in Franckreich, der verlassenen Wittwen vnd Waysen, Freunden, Verwandten, vnd Vnterthanen dess Königs in Franckreich, die von den Spaniern im neuwen Mitternächtigen Franckreich, welchs sie gemeiniglich Floridam nennen, schändtlich vnd jämmerlich sind erschlagen worden, im Jar M. D. LXV.", p. [7-12], 3rd count, has separate caption title.
- "Warhafftige vnnd evgentliche Beschreibung der vierdten Schiffahrt, der Frantzosen, in Americam, (welche in dieser Historia die dritte est) geschehen vnter dem Hauptmann Gourguesio, im Jar 1567", p. [13-21], 3rd count, has separate caption title.
- "Neben Bericht von dem Authore, vnd Gelegenheyt dieser Historien", p. [22-31], 3rd count, has separate caption title.
- Signatures: a-e⁴ (a1, a4 versos blank) f⁶ (f6 blank) A-N⁴ (A1 verso blank) O⁶ (O6 blank)
- Includes index on p. [32], 3rd count.
- Fully engraved and illustrated title page; engraved head and tail pieces; initials.
- Contains 43 leaves of plates, one of which is a double folded map of Florida and part of Cuba bound between p. [8], 1st count, and p. I, 2nd count; there are plates numbered I-XLII, which are printed on recto only and accompanied by letterpress text underneath illustration which are bound following p. [3-4], 3rd count, and which are signed A3-4 through L1-4.
- First title page printed primarily in German with some words in Latin; second title page has imprint in Latin.
Citation
"Der ander Theyl, der newlich erfundenen Landtschafft Americae, von dreyen Schiffahrten, so die Frantzosen in Floridam (die gegen Nidergang gelegen) gethan:
Eine vnter dem Häuptmann H. Laudonniere, Anno 1564. Die ander vnter H. Ribald 1565. Die dritte, vnter H. Guorguesio 1567. geschehen. Mit Beschreibung vnd lebendiger Contrafactur, dieser Provintze, Gestalt, Sitten vnd Gebräuch der Wilden
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(1591).
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