Secvndo, iter nobilissimi Equitis Thomæ Candisch, qui duorum ferè annorum spacio, 13000. Anglicana miliaria in mari confecit,
vbi describuntur quoque omnia quæ in hoc itinere ipsi acciderunt & visa sunt. Tertio, duo itinera, nobilissimi & fortissimi
Domini Gvaltheri Ralegh Equitis & designati gubernatoris Regii in Anglia præsidii, nec non fortissimi Capitanei Lavrentii Keyms. Qvibvs Itineribvs
Describitvr Avrifervm et Potentissimum Regnum Gviana, ad Septentrionem fluminis Orenoqve, aliàs Oregliana dicti, situm, cum
metropoli eius Manoa & Macviegvarai, aliis(´q); finitimis regionibus & fluuiis, mercibus item præstantissimis, & mercatura,
quæ in regno hoc exercetur. Primo Qvidem Anglicana Lingva Partim ab Eqvitibvs Ipsis, partim ab aliis, qui hisce itineribus
interfuerunt, sparsim consignata: Iam verò in vnum Corpus redacta, & in Latinum Sermonem conuersa, auctore M. Gotardo Artvs
Dantiscano. Figuris & imaginibus artificiosè illustrata & in lucem emissa, opera & sumptibus Theodorici de Bry P. M. relictæ Viduæ & filiorum. Anno
m. d. xcix
. [1599.]
110 leaves, printed title, with an engraved map of the two hemispheres with a portrait of Sir Francis Drake, engraved double-page
map of Guiana and the Amazon, with illustrations of animals and natives, text in
German with some
Latin, small engraved map of the world on page 78, at the end of Cavendish’s expedition, small engraved map at the end of Sir Walter Raleigh’s preface, representing the North Atlantic Ocean, with the adjacent coasts, showing Virginia, Mexico, Central America, Panama,
the Amazon, and the coasts of France, Spain and North Africa, printed title for the plates, 18 numbered plates with the text
in italic letter.
John
Carter Brown 405.
Church 163.
Contains accounts of six voyages as follows:
1. Sir Francis Drake’s first voyage, 1577-80, written by Niño de Sylva, a Portuguese, and here published for the first time. For an English version, see Hakluyt’s
Voyages
, no. 4007.
2. Drake’s second voyage, finished in 1585, from the account of Thomas Cates.
3. Drake’s third voyage, 1595-1596, with Sir John Hawkyns. This expedition was directed against the Spaniards at Panama, and
the account is taken from Drake’s log book.
4. The voyage of Thomas Cavendish round the world, 1586-1588. An account was written by Francis Brettie (or Prettie), who accompanied the expedition.
5. Sir Walter Raleigh’s first voyage, undertaken in 1595, to Peru, Guiana and other places. Raleigh published an account of
this voyage in London 1596.
6. The second voyage to Guiana, in 1596, here attributed to Sir Walter Raleigh, but actually undertaken at his behest by his
friend Lawrence Keyms.
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Part IX
Americæ Nona & postrema Pars. Qva de Ratione Elementorvm: De Novi Orbis Natvra: de hvivs incolarvm svperstitiosis cultibus:
de(´q); forma Politiæ ac Reipubl. ipsorum copiosè pertractatur: Catalogo Regum Mexicanorum omnium, à primo vsq; ad vltimum
Moteçumam II. addito: cui etiam ritus eorum coronationis, ac sepulturæ annectitur, cum enumeratione bellorum, quæ mutuò Indigesserunt.
His Accessit Designatio illivs Navigationis, qvam 5. naues Hollandicæ Anno 1598. per fretum Magellanum in Moluccanas insulas
tentarunt: quomodo nimirum oborta tempestate Capitaneus Sebalt de Weert à cæteris nauibus dispulsus, postquam plurimis mensibus
in freto infinitis ærumnis miserè iactatus fuisset,
