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- Notes:
- durch M. Philippum Ziglerum von Würtzburg, E.C. vnd vber die vorigen mit vielen newen vnnd nohtwendigen Landtaffeln vnd Kupfferstücken, auffs schönste gezieret, vnd in truck gegeben von Iohan-Theodoro de Bry, Buchhändlern vnnd Bürgern zu Oppenheim.
- Virgules replaced by commas in title page transcriptions.
- This volume is an abridgment of the first nine parts of the German editions of de Bry's America, which were printed from 1590-1601, with the addition of N. Herborn's Epitome, wie man Indianer bekehren sol, first printed in Latin as part of De insulis nuper inventis / by Hernán Cortes, Cologne, 1532.
- "Nothwendiger Discurss vnd eygentliche Bescreibung Americae, darinnen gehandlet wird, von Gelegenheit der Elementen, Natur vnd Eygenschafft dess Nidergängischen Indien: Item von derselben Völcker Aberglaubischen Götzendienst, Regiments: vnd Policey-Ordnung: dessgleichen Nicolai Herborns der Minoriten General Commissarii Epitome, wie man die Indianer bekehren sol. Alles auffs trewlichst vnd kürtzest zusammen gebracht, vnd mit nothwendigen Marginalien erkläret, vnd mit schönen Kuppferstücken gezieret, vnd an Tag gegeben, durch Iohan-Theodorvm de Bry, Bürgern vnd Buchhändlern zu Oppenheim", p. [335]-433, has separate dated title page with imprint: Gedruckt zu Franckfurt am Mayn, durch Nicolaum Hoffman, im Jahr 1617. The title page transcription in the frame of the engraved, ornamental border is on a label which is pasted over the text from "Americae pars quarta. Sive, Insignis & admiranda historia de reperta primùm Occidentali India à Christophoro Columbo anno M CCCCXCII", which is the first issue of the first Latin edition of part 4 of the Great Voyages which was printed in Frankfurt am Main by Joannes Feyranded in 1594. The text of this part is printed in two parallel columns.
- "Bruder Nicolaus Herborn des Minorten Ordens, regularis observantiae general Commissarius, disseits des Gebirgs, wündtschet seinen Brüdern die Gnad vnd Barmhertzigkeit Christi": p. 423-433.
- Signatures: (:)⁸ ((:)1, (:)8 versos blank) A-2N⁶ (P2, 2E5 versos blank) 2O⁶ (-2O6)
- Includes index.
- Title pages printed or labelled within engraved, ornamental border; head and tail pieces; initials.
- Includes a double map of Virginia, double hemispherical map of North and South America, a double folded map of New Spain, a folded map of Central and part of South America, the portrait of Christopher Columbus on p. [15], 1st count, and the full page illustration of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden on p. [113], 2nd count; also contains numerous in text illustrations which appeared in the first nine parts of America.
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- Nothwendiger Discurss und eygentliche Bescreibung Americae, darinnen gehandlet wird, von Gelegenheit der Elementen, Natur und Eygenschafft dess Nidergängischen Indien:
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"America, das ist, Erfindung vnd Offenbahrung der Newen Welt, deroselbigen Völcker, Gestalt, Sitten, Gebräuch, Policey vnd Gottesdienst, in dreyssig vornemste Schifffahrten kürtzlich vnnd ordentlich zusammen gefasset, vnd mit seinen Marginalien vnnd Register erkläret"
(1617).
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