Historiarum Orientalis Indiae tomus XII in tres libros siue tractatus distributus
Subtitle: Quorum primus continet descriptiones chorographicas & topographicas regnorum, provinciarum, insularum, vrbium, castellorum, emporiorum montium atque fluviorum, totius illius continentis, quae vulgo Orientalis Indiae nomine censetur: imprimis Chersonesi Aureae, Sinarum, Iaponum, Sinus Perfici & Gangetici, Oceani Eoi & littoris Africani: adiectis incolarum moribus & ritibus, ipsiusque soli ingenio & natura. Secundus habet narrationes exquisitas aliquot nauigationum & expeditionum marinarum, ab Anglis Batauisque potissimum, in omnes illas Orientis  & Austri partes susceptarum, vt & praeliorum aliquot naualium vario euentu commissorum: quibus accessit periplus orbis terrae, à Iacobo Eremita, Nauarcho Batauo absolutus: quae historia incipit ab anno An. C. M. DC. XIII. terminaturque initiis anni M. DC. XXVI. Tertius tribuitur descriptioni quarundam septentrionalium regionum atque insularum, ante non satis cognitarum, nempe partis Scythiae, Moscoviae, quae  magna pars est Sarmatiae Europae & Asiaticae, nec non Samogetiae, Islandae, Gronlandiae & aliarum, quarum plenior notitiae, expeditionibus Nauarchorum felici industria in eas orbis partes confectis, ad nos peruenit: à primis Aquilonarium nauigationum initiis ad nostra tempora. I. Ludouicus Gotofridus ex Anglico et Belgico sermone in Latinum transtulit, nouis accessionibus locupletauit, ordinem & concinnitatem addidit: non sine tabulis chorographicis & figuris aeneis, vnde lumen toti historiae
Contributors: Bry, Theodor de, 1528-1598; Bry, Johann Israel de, -1611; Bry, Johann Theodor de, 1561-1623
Series: Small voyages -- part 12.; Small voyages -- part 12.
Publisher: Apud Wilhelmum Fizzerum Anglum, bibliopolam
Published: 1628
Place of publication: Francofurti
Language: lat
Number of pages: 208
Subjects: Discovery and exploration; Dutch; English; Description and travel
Other titles: Historiarvm Orientalis Indiae tomus XII in tres libros sive tractatus distributus.
Notes: Constitutes the twelfth 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 Latin edition of part twelve of the Small voyages by Church.

Part XII. of the Small voyages was published by Wilhelm Fitzer, a son-in-law of Johann Theodor de Bry. The three sections of which it is composed had been previously published in German, forming parts XII. and XIII. of the Small voyages, in which they had been divided into fifty-one distinct chapters. Fitzer in publishing this volume, which contains the results of new voyages undertaken by the English and Dutch in Oriental countries, had a desire to bring the collection published by his family down to date. The greater part of these voyages had already been published by Purchas in his collection. Tiele (p. 198-202) gives the titles of some of the chapters which had been published separately in Dutch; and Camus (p. 272-273) gives the contents of both the English and Dutch voyages. Cf. Church.

Includes a description of l'Hermite's circumnavigation and description of Iceland and Greenland in section three.

Signatures: pi² (pi1 verso blank) A-2C⁴

Errors in paging: p. 132 and 133 misnumbered 32 and 33.

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

Contains 4 leaves of plates, which are two double maps, and 14 engraved illustrations in text.

Church, E.D. Discovery, 224.

JCB Lib. cat., pre-1675, I: p. 444-445.

Alden, J.E. European Americana, 628/22.