Description
- Notes:
- durch Hans Just Wynkelmann.
- Added title page, engraved and illustrated, folded, 16x22 cm. Title as: Hans Just Winkelmans Americanischer Neuer Welt Beschreibung. Gedruckt zu Oldenburg 1664. Illustrations commemorate life of Christopher Columbus.
- Signatures: *-2*⁴ B-2H⁴ (C2 signed as "Bij", D3 as "Ciij", 2E3 as "Ddiij", 2H3 as "Hiij"; *1 verso, *2 verso blank)
- Includes index.
- Contains a paraphrase of Hans Staden's narrative (chapters 12-16, p. 132-228, p. [1], third count (portrait of Staden); it is based on the account included in: Newe Welt vnd americanische Historien / Johann Ludwig Gottfried. Frankfurt, 1665. Staden's original account first published under title: Warhaftige Historia vnd Beschreibung eyner Landtschafft. Marburg, 1557.
- The 32 text illustrations accompanying Staden's narrative have been printed from the original Marburg 1557 woodblocks which were rediscovered by Winckelmann (in two instances on p. 168 and 179, names present on the original woodcuts have been eliminiated). Two additional text illustrations (p. 18 and 74) are definitely not from Staden's original work; their source, consequently, remains unknown, notwithstanding Winckelmann's claim (p. 136) that all 34 woodcuts had been made at the instigation of Hans Staden.
Citation
"Der americanischen Neuen Welt Beschreibung:
darinnen deren Erfindung, Lager, Natur, Eigenschaft, Sitten, Barbarey, und unerhörte Grausamkeit der Einwohner, Thier, Vögel, Fischen und anderer; beneben einer wunderbaren Schifffart und Reisebeschreibung nach Brasilien Hans von Staden, bürtig aus Homburg in Hessen; was er vor selzame wunderbare Länder und wilde Leute gesehen; was er innerhalb acht Jahren ausgestanden, und wie der högste Gott ihn aus so vielfaltiger groser Gefahr errettet habe &c. Mit vielen nachdenklichen Fragen und nothwendigen Figuren ausgezieret und zusammen getragen
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(1664).
John Carter Brown Library.
Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library.
https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:730669/
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