visis figuris in æs incisis, Auctore M. Gothardo Arthvsio Dantiscano.
Francofvrti: Typis
Ioannis Hoferi, Sumptibus
Ioannis-Theodori de Bry, Anno
m. dc. xx
. [1620.]
2 parts in 1, 76 leaves, printed title with a half-page engraving with a map of the two hemisphers, portraits of Magellan
and Schouten, and smaller portraits of Drake, van Noort, Cavendish and Speilbergen, engraved double page map of the South
Sea, showing Schouten’s route, with text in
German,
Latin and
French, engraved map of New Guinea, with text in
German,
Latin and
French, printed title to the plates, 9 numbered plates, of which the first is the same as the engraving on the title-page, text
in italic letter; printed title to the Appendix, with an engraving showing Neptune in the foreground and ships in full sail,
printed title to the plates, 17 numbered plates with text in roman letter, plate 2 being double-page.
John Carter Brown, 408 and 409.
Church 172.
Contains an account of the voyage around the world of Willem Cornelisz Schouten under the direction of Le Maire in 1615, and
of the voyage around the world of Joris van Spilbergen, 1614-1618.
Jefferson mentioned De Bry’s collection of voyages in his letter to John Adams, dated from Monticello June 11, 1812, in answer
to his enquiry for books on the Indians, quoted also in connection with Lafitau and James Adair, qq.v.: “
. . . The scope of your enquiry would scarcely, I suppose, take in the three folio volumes of Latin of De Bry. in these fact
and fable are mingled together, without regard to any favorite system. they are less suspicious therefore in their complexion,
more original and authentic, than those of Lafitau and Adair. this is a work of great curiosity, extremely rare, so as never
to be bought in Europe, but on the breaking up, & selling some antient library. on one of these occasions a bookseller procured
me a copy, which, unless you have one, is probably the only one in America . . .
”
Theodor de Bry, 1528-1598, German engraver and publisher. After establishing his engraving and publishing business in Frankfort-on-Main
he visited England and met Richard Hakluyt, q.v., who collaborated with him in collecting the materials for his
Collectiones Peregrinationum in Indiam Orientalem et Indiam Occidentalem
. A complete set of the
Indiam Occidentalem, that is the
Great Voyages, was comprised of thirteen parts. The copy purchased by Jefferson had parts I to XI only. The Great and Small Voyages were
published from 1590 to 1634 and had twenty-five parts in all. After the death of Theodor de Bry in 1598 the work was continued
by his son Johann.
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