Americae nona & postrema pars.
Subtitle: Qva de ratione elementorvm: de Novi Orbis natvra: de hvivs incolarvm svperstitiosis cultibus: déq; forma politiae ac reipubl. ipsorum ... pertractatur ... His accessit designatio illivs navigationis, qvam 5 naues Hollandicae anno 1598, per Fretum Magellanum ... tentarunt: quomodo ... capitaneus Sebalt de Weert ... postquam plurimis mensibus in Freto ... miserè iactatus fuisset ... an. 1600 domum reuersus sit [per Bernhardvm Jansz.] Addita est tertio navigatio recens, qvam 4 navivm praefectus Olevier à Noort ... suscepit ... Omnia è Germanico Latinitate donata, & figuris aeneis coornata editaq́
By: sumptibus T. de Bry viduae & binorum filiorum [i.e. J.T. and J.I. de Bry]
Contributors: Acosta, José de, 1540-1600.; Potgieter, Barent Jansz, b. 1574.; Noort, Olivier van, 1558 or 9-1627.; Bry, Johann Theodor de, 1561-1623?; Bry, Johann Israel de, d. 1611.; Hans and Hanni Kraus Sir Francis Drake Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Apud M. Beckervm
Published: 1602
Place of publication: Francof
Language: lat
Number of pages: 362
Subjects: Weert, Sebald de; Voyages around the world -- Early works to 1800; America -- Early accounts to 1600; Magellan, Strait of (Chile and Argentina) -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800
Genres: Early works to 1800.; Early accounts to 1600.
Notes: Pts. 2, 3, and illus. have also special title pages.
The 1st pt., De Novi Orbis natura, is by José de Acosta.
First ed. Cf. Church. Cat. of books relating to ... America, 168.
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
Kraus, H.P. Sir Francis Drake, no. 31