Vera historia, admirandae cuiusdam nauigationis, quam Huldericus Schmidel, Straubingensis, ab anno 1534. usque ad annum 1554. in Americam vel nouum mundum, iuxta Brasiliam & Rio della Plata, confecit
Subtitle: Quid per hosce annos 19. sustinuerit, quam varias & quam mirandas regiones ac homines viderit. Ab ipso Schmidelio Germanice, descripta: nunc vero, emandatis & correctis vrbium, regionum & fluminum nominibus, adiecta etiam tabula geographica, figuris, & alijs notationibus quibusdam, in hac forma reducta
Contributors: Hulsius, Levinus, -1606
Series: Sammlung von sechs und zwanzig Schiffahrten in verschiedene fremde Länder -- part 4.; Sammlung von sechs und zwanzig Schiffahrten in verschiedene fremde Länder -- part 4.
Publisher: Impensis Levini Hulsij.
Published: 1599
Place of publication: Noribergae [i.e. Nuremberg]
Language: lat
Number of pages: 101
Subjects: Indians of South America; Description and travel
Other titles: Vera historia, admirandae cuiusdam nauigationis, quam Huldericus Schmidel, Straubingensis, ab anno 1534. usque ad annum 1554. in Americam vel novum mundum, iuxta Brasiliam & Rio della Plata, confecit.
Work titles: Neue Welt
Notes: Constitutes the fourth part of Sammlung von sechs und zwanzig Schiffahrten in verschiedene fremde Länder durch Levinus Hulsius und einige Andere, aus dem Holländischen ins Deutsche übersetzt und mit allerhand Anmerrkungen versehen, compiled by Levinus Hulsius, and printed in 26 parts in Nuremberg, Frankfurt am Main, Oppenheim, and Hanau from 1598 to 1663.

Originally printed under title: Neue Welt: das ist, Warhafftige Beschreibunge aller schönen Historien von Erfindung viler vnbekanten Königreichen, Landschafften, Insulen unnd Stedten / by Ulrich Schmidel, first printed Frankfurt am Main, 1567.

First edition of part four compied by Hulsius, printed in Nuremburg, 1599 under title: Vierte Schiffart. Warhafftige Historien einer wunderbaren Schiffart, welche Ulrich Schmidel von Straubing, von Anno 1534. biss Anno 1554 in Americam oder Newenwelt, bey Brasilia und Rio della Plata gethan.

Signatures: A-N⁴ (A1, N4 versos blank)

Engraved vignette of two South American natives and a conquistador on a llama in between; head and tail pieces; initials.

Church, E.D.  Discovery, no. 274.

Moraes, R.B. de. Bib. Brasiliana (1983 ed.), II: p. 780-781.

JCB Lib. cat., pre-1675 I: p. 455.

Alden, J.E. European Americana, 599/79.