Das sechste Theil Americae
By: oder der Historien Hieron. Benzo von Meylandt, das dritte Buch. Darinnen erzehlet wirt, wie die Spanier die Goldreiche Landschafften dess Peruauischen [sic] Königreichs eingenommen, den König Atabalibam gefangen vnd getödtet. Auch wie sie endlich sich selbst vntereinander auffgerieben haben. Sampt einem kurtzen zu end angehengten Tractätlein von den glückhafftigen Inseln. Mit nützlichen vnd nothwendigen Erklärungen auff ein jedes Capitel, gemehret. Auch einer Landtaffel dess Peruanischen Königreichs. Alles mit schönen Kupfferstücken vorgebildet vnd an Tag geben durch Dieterich von Bry, Kunststecher und Bürger zu Franckfurt. Mit Rom. Kay. Mayt. Privilegien begnadet. M D XIX
Contributors: Chauveton, Urbain, -approximately 1616; Bry, Theodor de, 1528-1598; Bry, Johann Theodor de, 1561-1623
Edition: Second edition
Series: Great voyages -- pt. 6.; Great voyages -- pt. 6.
Publisher: In Vorlegung Johann Theodors de Bry. Gedruckt bey Hieronymo Gallern.
Published: 1619
Place of publication: Oppenheim
Language: ger
Number of pages: 121
Subjects: History
Work titles: Historia del Mondo Nuovo. Book 3.
Notes: Virgules replaced by commas in title page transcriptions.

First edition printed in Frankfurt am Main, 1597.

Constitutes the sixth part, second 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 second issue of part six of the second German edition of the Great voyages by Church.

Imprint from title page to plates, p. [2-3], 3rd count.

The second issue of the second edition of German part six can be identified by the German title printed on the engraved title page, the running title reading "Sechster Theil Americae" on both recto and verso; the plates in the second state, as printed in the second edition, all have the words "Sechster Theil Americae" printed above the roman numeral, however plate XXVIII has been re-engraved in reverse on a smaller copperplate.

German translation, by Nikolaus Höniger, of book three 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 third and last portion of Benzoni's History, relating to Peru. This German edition has a dedication and preface not to be found in the Latin edtion. The German edition lacks the thirty-one pages relating to the Canary Islands and Florida. Cf. Church.

"Sechster Theil Americae. Eigendtliche Fürbildung, aller newen frembden, seltzamen Historien vnd Geschichten, so sich warhafftig in dem Geltreichen vnd mächtigen Königreich Peru, zu zeitten des gewaltigen Königs Attabalibae, als die Spanier erstmals dasselbige Land erfunden, zugetragen haben, auss etlichen warhafftigen Autoribus gezogen, vnd klärlich für Augen gestelt. Sampt warhafftiger Beschreibung vnd Erklarung derselbigen Bildnussen, je nechst vnder jede Figur ordentlich gesetzt. Alles zierlich vnd künstlich, in schönen artlichen Kupfferstücken fürgestochen, vnd jetzo von newem an Tag geben, durch Dieterich de Bry Leodiensem", p. [2-3], 3rd count, has letterpress title page with imprint: Oppenheim, in Vorlegung Johann Theodors de Bry. Gedruckt bey Hieronymo Gallern. M D XVIII.

Contains a double map of the western hemisphere bound between p. [6], 1st count, and p. 1, 2nd count; double page plan of Cusco is also bound between p. 14 and 15, 2nd count; also contains plates numbered I-XXVIII printed on recto only, and bound following p. [2-3], 3rd count which are signed A2-4 through G1-5.

Signatures: A⁶ (A1, A2 versos blank) B-O⁴ P⁶ (P6 verso blank) ²A-²F⁴ (²A1 verso blank) ²G⁶ (²G6 blank)

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

Church, E.D.  Discovery, 190.

Baginsky, P. German works relating to America, 147.

JCB Lib. cat., pre-1675, I: p. 398.

Alden, J.E. European Americana, 619/20.