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GOTTFRIED, JOHANN LUDWIG. c.1584–1633.:Newe Welt und Americanische Historien. Frankfurt: Merians Erben, 1655.
Folio (320 x 205 mm). Additional engraved title, 174 half-page engravings (several with partial or full hand-coloring), 3 (of 8) plates (the folding views of Olinda, folding map of Brazil and the single-page map of Tierra del Fuego). Modern half red morocco and marbled board; engraved title trimmed and mounted with closed tear at top edge, letterpress title and following two leaves mounted at gutter, pages toned and brittle, a few engravings trimmed, lower corner of three leaves repaired with loss to text, a few other small paper repairs, gouge to top edge of text block, in a custom cloth slipcase.
SECOND EDITION of this compilation of voyages to the Americas. \”It contains a resumé of the Histories of Acosta, Oviedo, Peter Martyr, Herrera, Laet, tc. An account of 33 voyages to America, from Columbus to Spilbergen and Schouten; notices of the expeditions of Lemaire and Peter Heyn, the conquests of Brazil by the Dutch, and descriptions of Greenland and Spitzbergen. The first edition was published in 1631\” (Sabin). The 174 half-page engraved illustrations had been previously published in De Bry\’s Great Voyages. Borba de Moraes 372; Sabin 50.
