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tandem infectare post biennium An. 1600. domum reuersus sit. Addita est tertio Navigatio recens, qvam 4. Navivm Praefectus Olevier à Noort proximè suscepit: qui freto Magellanico classe transmisso, triennij spatio vniuersum terræ orbem seu globum mira nauigationis sorte obiuit: annexis illis, quæ in itinere isto singularia ac memorabiliora notata sunt. Omnia è Germanico Latinitate donata, & insuper elegantissimis figuris æneis coornata edita(´q); sumptibus Theodori de Bry p.m. Viduæ & binorum filiorum.--Relatio Historica, siue Vera, et Genvina Consignatio ac Descriptio Illivs Navigationis, qvam V. naves, mense Ivnio Anno 1598. Amstelredamo solventes, fretum Magellanicum in Moluccanas insulas transmittendi instituto susceperunt: quid nimirum ipsis vsque ad 7. Septembr. Ann. 1599. acciderit, quo tempore frementium tempestatum ac procellarum vi dissipatis his nauibus, duo Capitanei Sebalt de Weert, & Balthasar de Cordes, cum binis tantum nauibus, soli iuncti manserunt: qui & ipsi tandem Mensibus quatuor integris in freto dicto infandis laboribus ac periculis infinitis iactati sunt tamdiu, donec Capitaneus de Weert, dispulsa sibi socia naue iam solus vna saltem anchora, paucoque commeatu instructus, relinqueretur: qui post biennium illi itineri impensum, tandem infecta re in Hollandiam An. 1600. reuersus est. Omnia per Mr. Bernhardvm Jansz Cirurgni, qui nauigationis huius pars fuit, congesta sunt & descripta: ac Elegantibvs Figvris Tabvlisqve in æs incisis expressa, & edita à Theod. de Bry p.m. vidua, & binis filiis.--Additamentvm Nonae Partis Americae Hoc est, Vera et Accvrata Descriptio Longinqvæ, Divtvrnæ ac Pericvlosissimæ Nauvigationis, qvam Olevier à Noort, classis quatuor nauium & 248. hominum Generalis præfectus constitutus, ac rebus necessariis aliis vberrimè instructus per æstuosum fretum Magellanicum confecit: qui triennij spatio velis vniuersum terræ globum intrepidus obiuit, eoque in cursu varia, ac scitu necessaria admodum incunda(´q); notauit. E Germanico Latinitate donata, & figuris seu iconibus aneis pulcherrimis ornata, editaque opera ac sumptibus Theodoride Bry p.m. Vidvæ ac filiorum binorum Ioan. Theodori & Ioan. Israelis ciuium Francofurtensium.-- Francof.: apud Matth. Beckervm, 1602.
3 parts in 1, together 306 leaves, printed title within an engraved historiated border, engraved arms of Christian II Duke of Saxony, printed title to the plates, 25 numbered plates, with text in italic letter; title to the Relatio Historica with an engraving showing 5 ships of the expedition, map of Fretvm Magellanicvm, with text in German and Latin, title to the Additamentvm with an engraving containing a portrait of Olivier van Noort and a map of the two hemispheres, printed title to the plates, 14 numbered plates with text in italic letter.
John Carter Brown 406.
Church 168.
Contains:
1. De Novi Orbis Natura of Acosta. The first two books of this work were originally written in Latin and published in Seville in 1589, and the complete work in Spanish in the following year, q.v. no. 4096.
2. The voyage of Sebald de Weert to the Moluccas by way of the Straits of Magellan in 1598, written by Zacharias Heyne.
3. The Additamentum, which contains an account of the voyage of Olivier van Noort also to the Moluccas by way of the Straits of Magellan. De Bry’s version is a

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