Virgules replaced by commas in title page transcription.

Constitutes the fourth part, first issue of the second German edition of Theodor de Bry's Great voyages, printed in fourteen parts, in Latin, German, French, and English, in Frankfurt am Main, Oppenheim, and Hanau from 1590-1644, and the Elenchus, an outline of the thirteen Latin parts, published by Matthias Merian in Frankfurt am Main in 1634.

This work has been identified as the first issue of the second German edition of the Great voyages by Church.

First edition of part four printed in Frankfurt am Main, 1594.

Imprint from colophon.

The second edition of German part four can be identified by line 32 of text on p. 37 ending with "gegen dē" and by line 31 of text on p. 95 ending with "vnnd", as with other variations on each page after a close but not identical reprinting of the sheets of the first edition.

German translation, by Nikolaus Höniger, of book one of: Historia del Mondo Nuovo / by Girolamo Benzoni, first printed Venice, 1565, and first translated into German under title: Der Newen Weldt und Indianischen Königsreichs, Basel, 1579.

German part four is supplemented by annotations supplied by Urbain Chauveton from the author's Novae Novi Orbis historiae, first printed in Geneva, 1578.

This part contains the beginning of Girolamo Benzoni's Historia del Mondo Nuovo. The remainder was published in the parts V and VI. Benzoni's work was first published in Italian at Venice in 1565. It was translated into Latin by Urbain Chauveton. He also translated the work into French. De Bry has followed Chauveton's translation which was published at Geneva in 1578, and has added to it Latin translations of some of the notes which appeared in the French edition. Cf. Church.

Despite this being a translation of book one only, the last line on p. 141 reads: Ende dess vierdten Buchs.

Title page which precedes plates, p. [2-3], 4th count, reads: Das vierdte Buch von der Neuwen Welt. Oder neuwe vnd gründtliche Historien, von dem Nidergängischen Indien, so von Christophoro Columbo im Jar 1492. erstlich erfunden. Durch Hieronymum Bentzo von Meyland, welcher 14. Jar dasselbig Land durchwandert, auffs fleissigst beschrieben vnd an Tag geben, mit nützlichen Scholien und Ausslegungen fast auff jede Capitel, von deren Völckern Sitten, Gebräuch vnd Gottesdienst. Sampt deren Provintzen Landtafel. Alles mit schönen vnd kunstreichen Kupfferstücken vnd deren angehenckten erklärungen an Tag geben, durch Diterich von Bry, Bürger in Franckfurt am Mayn. An den Durchteuchtigen hochgebornen Fürsten vnd Herrn, Herren Moritzen Landtgrauen zu Hessen, &c. Mit Röm. Keys. Maiestat Priuilegien begnadet.

Contains a double folded map which is bound between p. [20], 1st count, and p. 1, 2nd count; also contains plates numbered I-XXIIII, printed on recto only, and bound following p. [2-3], 4th count which are signed A2-4 through F1-5.

Signatures: A-T⁴ (A1 verso blank) V⁶ (V6 verso blank) ²A-²E⁴ ²F⁶ (²F6 blank)

Fully engraved and illustrated title page; engraved head and tail pieces; initials.

Church, E.D. Discovery, 184.

Palmer, P.M. German works on America, 298.

JCB Lib. cat., pre-1675, I: p. 394.

Alden, J.E. European Americana, 613/15.

John Carter Brown Library copy imperfect: wanting p. [4-5], final blank leaf ²F6.

John Carter Brown Library copy 1 has illustration with the seven coats of arms and six virtues on p. [3], 1st count, double folded map which is bound between p. [20], 1st count, and p. 1, 2nd count, and plates appear in the second state, with the Arabic numerals engraved on the coppers, and with 6 and the 6 in 16 printed in reverse, and are identified in pencil in the upper right hand corner, as they are described by Church.