Americae das fünffte Buch
By: vol schöner unterhörter Historien, auss dem andern Theil Ioannis Benzonis von Meylandt gezogen: von der Spanier Wüten, wider ihre Knecht die Nigriten, unnd auch die Arme Indianer: wie die Spanier von den Französichen Meer Räubern offtermal angriffen und geptündert worden, denn auch, wie sie erstlich das Neuwe Spanien erfunden haben, und gantz erbärnlich mit dem Armen Landvölcklein daselbst umbgangen sind. Sampt kurtzer und nützlicher Erklärung der Historien, bey jedem Capitel. Auch einer schönen Land Tafel, dess Neuwen Spanien in America. Alles mit schönen und kunstreichen Kupfferstücken und dereis angehenckten Erklärungen, an Tag geben, durch Dieterich von Bry, Burger in Franckfurt am Mayn. An den Durchleuchtigen Hochgebornen Fürsten und Herrn, Herren Moritzen Landrgrafen zu Hessen, &c. Mit Rom. Keys. May. Privilegien begnadet
Contributors: Höniger, Nikolaus, active 16th century; Chauveton, Urbain, -approximately 1616; Bry, Theodor de, 1528-1598
Edition: First and second editions
Series: Great voyages -- pt. 5.; Great voyages -- pt. 5.
Publisher: s.n. and Erasmum Kempffer
Published: 1595
Place of publication: Frankfurt am Main
Language: ger
Number of pages: 115
Subjects: History; Description and travel; Discovery and exploration
Work titles: Historia del Mondo Nuovo. Book 2.
Notes: Virgules replaced by commas in title page transcription.

Printed at foot of title pages: Cum privilegio S. C. Maiestatis.

Constitutes a hybrid copy of the fifth part, sole issue of the first German edition and the sole 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 a hybrid of the sole issues of the first and second editions of part five of the German edition of the Great voyages by Church.

Imprint supplied by Church.

The first edition of German part five can be identified with a slip of the German title pasted over the Latin text on the engraved title page, with the text set as reproduced by Church; in the first edition the plates numbered I-XXII have their Roman numerals printed on the right upper hand corners.

The second edition of German part five can be identified with a slip of the German title pasted over the Latin text on the engraved title page, with the text set as reproduced by Church; in the second edition the plates numbered I-XXII have their Roman numerals printed in the center above the captions for the plates.

German translation, by Nikolaus Höniger, of book two of: Historia del Mondo Nuovo / by Girolamo Benzoni, first printed Venice, 1565, of which the German text was first printed as book two of Der Newenn Weldt und indianischen Königreichs, newe unnd wahrhaffte History, Basel, 1579 and here supplemented by annotations by Urbain Chauveton in Novae Novi Orbis historiae, first printed Geneva, 1578.

This part contains the second portion of Girolamo Benzoni's Historia del Mondo Nuovo. The remainder was published in part VI. Benzoni's work was first published in Itlaian at Venice in 1565. It was translated in 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. Cf. Church.

"Americae das fünffte Buch, vol schöner unterhörter Historien, auss dem andern Theil Ioannis Benzonis von Meylandt gezogen: von der Spanier Wüten, wider ihre Knecht die Nigriten, unnd auch die Arme Indianer: wie die Spanier von den Französichen Meer Räubern offtermal angriffen und geptündert worden, denn auch, wie sie erstlich das Neuwe Spanien erfunden haben, und gantz erbärnlich mit dem Armen Landvölcklein daselbst umbgangen sind. Sampt kurtzer und nützlicher Erklärung der Historien, bey jedem Capitel. Auch einer schönen Land Tafel, dess Neuwen Spanien in America. Alles mit schönen und kunstreichen Kupfferstücken und dereis angehenckten Erklärungen, an Tag geben, durch Dieterich von Bry, Burger in Franckfurt am Mayn. An den Durchleuchtigen Hochgebornen Fürsten und Herrn, Herren Moritzen Landrgrafen zu Hessen, &c. Mit Rom. Keys. May. Privilegien begnadet..", p. [2-3], 2nd count, has fully engraved title page.

Contains a double map of Mexico which is bound between p. 6 and 7, 1st count; also contains plates numbered I-XXII, with Roman numerals printed on outer right hand corner of pages, printed on recto only, and bound following p. [2-3], 2nd count which are signed A2-4 through F1-3.

Signatures: a-n⁴ (a1 verso blank) o⁶ (o6 verso blank) A-F⁴ (A1 verso, F4 blank)

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

Church, E.D.  Discovery, 186.

Church, E.D.  Discovery, 187.

Baginsky, P. German works relating to America, 131.

JCB Lib. cat., pre-1675, I: p. 395-396.

JCB Lib. cat., pre-1675, I: p. 396.

Alden, J.E. European Americana, 595/7.

Alden, J.E. European Americana, 613/14.