Eilffter Theil der Orientalischen Indien, darinnen erstlich begriffenwerden zwo Schiffahrten Herrn Americi Vesputii, welche er auss Befehl Königs Emanuelis von Portugall anno 1501. in Ost Indien vorgenommen
Subtitle: Zum andern, ein warhafftiger vnd zuvor nie erhörter Bericht eines Englischen, welcher, nach dem er in einem Schiff, die Auffahrt genandt, in Cambaja dem eussersten Theil Ost Indiens Schiffbruchgelidten, zu Land durch viele vnbekandte Königreich vnd grosse Stätte gereiset, vnd was ihme vberall begegnet vnd zuhanden gestossen. Zum dritten, ein historische Beschreibung von Erfindung vnd Beschaffenheit der Landschafft Spitzberg, &c. Item, ein kurtze Erzehlung, was alle andere Fischer Anno 1613. von den Englischen erlidten, neben angehängter Protestation, wider der Engelländer angemassten Erbgerechtigkeit, vber gedachte Landschaft Spitzberg, &c
By: Alles auffs trewlichste von newem auss dem Latein, Englischen vnd Frantzösischen in vnter Hoch Teutsche Sprache gebracht. Sampt vielen schönen Künstlichen Figuren in Kupffer gestochen vnd an Tag geben durch Johan-Theodor de Bry Bürgern vnd Buchhändlern zu Oppenheim
Contributors: Bry, Theodor de, 1528-1598; Bry, Johann Israel de, -1611; Bry, Johann Theodor de, 1561-1623; Vespucci, Amerigo, 1451-1512; Coverte, Robert; Gerritsz., Hessel, approximately 1581-1632
Series: Small voyages -- part 11.; Small voyages -- part 11.
Publisher: Bey Hieronymo Gallern.
Published: 1618
Place of publication: Gedruckt zu Oppenheim
Language: ger
Number of pages: 53
Subjects: Whaling; Discovery and exploration; Italian; Description and travel
Notes: Virgules replaces by commas in title page transscription.

Constitutes the eleventh part of Theodor de Bry's Small voyages, printed in 13 parts and an Appendix in Frankfurt am Main and Oppenheim from 1597 to 1633.

This work has been identified as the sole German edition of part eleven of the Small voyages by Church.

This part contains three narratives: (1) The relations of the third and fourth voyages of Vespuccius to America, in 1501 and 1503. (2) An account of Robert Coverte's travels by land through Persia and Mongolia [here, Church is incorrect. Instead of Mongolia, it is the Mogul Empire], after his shipwreck off Surat. This relation was first printed in English, at London in 1612. (3) A geographical description of Spitzbergen and a refutation of the claims of the English to the northern whale fisheries, with the journal of the voyage of Willem Barentsz and Jan Corneliszoon Rijp, in 1596. The latter portion is a translation of Hessel Gerritsz' Histoire du Pays nommé Spisberghe; Amsterdam, 1613. Cf. Church.

"Herrn Americi Vesputii dritte [and vierdte] Schiffart in Ost Indien, die er auss Befehl König Emanuelis von Portugal Anno. 1501. vorgenommen", p. 5-8 and 1-2, 1st and 2nd counts, is a translation of selections of the author's: Mundus novus, first printed under title: Albericus Vespuccius Laurentio Petri Francisci de Medicis salutem plurimam dicit / Amerigo Vespucci, Paris, 1503 but generally known as: Mundus novus.

"Warhafftiger vnd zuvor nie erhörter Bericht eines Englischen, welcher, nach deme er in einem Schiff die  Aussfarth genandt in Cambaja dem eussersten Theil Ost Indiens Schiffbruch gelitten zu Land durch viele vmbekante Königreich vns grosse Stätte gereiset, vnd was ihme vberall begegnet vnd zuhanden gestossen", p. 4-37, 2nd count, is a translation of: A true and almost incredible report of an Englishman, that (being cast away in the good ship called the Assention in Cambaya the farthest part of the East Indies) trauelled by land through many vnknowne kingdomes, and great cities / by Robert Coverte, first printed London, 1612.

"Historische Beschreibung, von der Landschafft Spitzberg, darinnen, vie sie nemlich Anfangs erfunden, wo sie gelegen, was ihre Eigenschafften, was für Thier daselbsten zufinden, &c. ordentlich beschrieben wirt", p. 38-53, is a translation of: Histoire du Pays nommé Spisberghe / collected and edited by Hessel Gerritsz, printed in Amsterdam, 1613, which is, in turn, a translation of selection of his: Descriptio ac delineatio geographica detectonis freti; sive Transitus ad occasum, supra terras Americanas, in Chinam atque Japonem ducturi, recens investigati ab M. Henrico Hudsono Anglo, first printed in Amsterdam, 1612.

"Folgen hernacher eigendtliche vnd warhafftige Fürbildung der Historien vnd Geschichte, so in Herrn Americi Vesputii zweyen Reysen nach Ost Indien, wie auch der andern zweyen Schiffahrten in Cambajam vnd Spitzberg, &c. vorgangen, in das eilffte Theil der Orientalischen Indien gehörig. Beneben warhafftiger Beschreibung vnd Erklärung der Bildnüssen, so vnter jede Figur ordentlich gesetzt. Alles zierlich in schönen Kupfferstücken vor Augen gestellt, vnd von newem an Tag geben durch Johann-Theodorum de Bry Kunst. vnd Buchhändlern in Oppenheim ", p. 1-3, [1], 4th and 5th counts, has separate title page with imprint: Gedruckt zu Oppenheim bey Hieronymo Gallern. Anno M DC XVIII. [1618]

There are two states of the title page: in the first one, the vignette has two natives and a center engraved portrait of Olivier van Noort, with two map hemispheres; the other has a native woman on the left with her child and a native man on the right with two ships in the center.

Signatures: )(⁴ ()(1 verso blank) A-G⁴ (G3 verso, G4 blank) a1-2 (a1, a2 versos blank)

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

Contains 10 leaves of plates, which are numbered I-X, all of which are printed on recto only, and are signed [a]3-4, b1-c3 following p. 1-3, [1], 4th and 5th counts.

This copy contains the rare Plate VII, of a woman being carried in state to be burned with the body of her husband. This is often replaced by the plate, in which a woman is represented as throwing herself into the funeral pyre of her husband, used as plate IX., in no. 207. Cf. Church.

Cf. Alden, J.E. European Americana, 619/30.

Church, E.D. Discovery, 243.

JCB Lib. cat., pre-1675, I: p. 443-444.