Indiae Orientalis pars VI
Subtitle: veram et historicam descriptionem auriferi regni Guineae, adfricam pertinentis, quod alias littus de mina vocant, continens, qua situs loci, ratio vrbium & domorum, portus item & flumina varia, cum variis incolarum superstitionibus, educatione, forma, commerciis, linguis & moribus, succincta breuitate explicantur & percensentur
By: Latinitate ex Germanico donata studio & opera M. Gotardi Arthus Dantiscani ; illustrata vero viuis, & artificiosissime in aes incisis iconibus, inque lucem edita à Iohanne Theodoro & Iohanne Israel de Bry fratribus
Contributors: Arthus, Gotthard, 1568-; Bry, Theodor de, 1528-1598; Bry, Johann Israel de, -1611; Bry, Theodor de, 1528-1598; Fondo Cicognara (Biblioteca apostolica vaticana); Leopoldo Cicognara Program (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Series: Cicognara library
Publisher: Ex officina Wolfgangi Richteri, sumptibus Iohan. Theodori & Iohan. Israel de Bry fratribus
Published: 1604
Place of publication: Francofurti ad Moenum
Language: lat
Format: [microform] :
Number of pages: 127
Subjects: Voyages and travels; Early works to 1800; Description and travel; Discovery and exploration
Other titles: Icones, seu, Verae et vivae repraesentationes omnium praecipuarum rerum ...
Work titles: Beschrijving en historisch verhaal van het Gouden Koninkrijk van Guinea
Notes: Separate t.p. to plates: Icones, seu, Verae et vivae repraesentationes omnium praecipuarum rerum ...

Contains a description of the kingdom of Guinea in Africa, the results of observations made on a voyage undertaken by the Dutch in the years 1600-1601, together with a history of the early voyages to that coast by the Portuguese, French, and Dutch. The original account, which is the 1st description of that country in Dutch, was written by Pieter de Marees and published in Amsterdam in 1602 with the title: Beschryvinge ende historische verhael ... It was translated, with changes, into German by Gothardt Artus for the German ed. of Pars 6, which appeared in 1603, and into Latin for this ed.

Brunet, I, col. 1310-1344

Church, E.D. Discovery, 213

Cicognara, c3970