Das VII. Theil Americae
Subtitle: Warhafftige vnnd liebliche Beschreibung etlicher fürnemmen Indianischen Landschafften vnd Insulen, die vormals in keiner Chronicken gedacht vnd erstlich in der Schiffart
By: Vlrici Schmidts von Straubingen, mit grosser gefahr erkündigt, vnd von ihm selber auffs fleissigst beschrieben vnd dargethan. Vnd an Tag gebracht durch Dieterich von Bry, Anno M. D. XCVII
Contributors: Bry, Theodor de, 1528-1598
Edition: First edition
Series: Great voyages -- pt. 7.; Great voyages -- pt. 7.
Publisher: Venales reperiu[n]tur in officina Theodori de Bry
Published: 1599
Place of publication: Frankfurt am Main]
Language: ger
Number of pages: 31
Subjects: History; Description and travel
Work titles: Warhafftige und liebliche Beschreibung etlicher fürnemen indianischen Landtschafften und Insulen
Notes: Constitutes the seventh part, sole issue of the first German edition of Theodor de Bry's Great voyages, printed in fourteen parts, in Latin, German, French, and English, in Frankfurt am Main, Oppenheim, and Hanau from 1590-1644, and the Elenchus, an outline of the thirteen Latin parts, published by Matthias Merian in Frankfurt am Main in 1634.

This work has been identified as the sole issue of part seven of the second German edition of the Great voyages by Church.

Place and date of publication supplied by Church.

The sole issue of German part seven can be identified by the inclusion of the sole illustration on leaf 1 recto, 2nd count, as no plates were issued with the first editions, and by the blank verso of leaf 1, 2nd count.

First printed as volume 2 of: Erst [-ander] Theil dieses Weltbuchs, von newen erfundnen Landtschafften / by Sebastian Franck, Frankfurt am Main, 1567 under title: Warhafftige Beschreibunge aller und mancherley sorgfeltigen schiffarten, which was also printed in: Neue Welt: das ist, Warhafftige Beschreibunge aller schönen Historien von Erfindung viler vnbekanten Königreichen, Landschafften, Insulen unnd Stedten, also printed Frankfurt am Main, 1567.

This part contains an account of the voyages of Ulrich Schmidel (Latin Ulricus Faber) to Brazil and Paraguay in 1535-1553. He is one of the first who wrote about that part of America. The narrative was originally written in Germany by Schmidel himself and published for the first time in 1597 [actually first printed in Frankfurt am Main, 1567, see translation note above] in part VII of the German edition of the Great Voyages. Two Latin versions were printed this same year, -- this, which was translated by Gotard Artus of Frankfurt, and one by Hulsius. Cf. Church.

Contains no illustrations other than the scene of port and houses on leaf 1, 2nd count; Church states that the plates for this part were first published at the end of the text of part VIII of the Latin edition of the Great voyages, printed Frankfurt am Main, 1599.

Signatures: A-G⁴ (A1, A3 versos blank) H⁴ (H3 verso blank, H6 blank)

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

Church, E.D.  Discovery, 191.

JCB Lib. cat., pre-1675, I: p. 399-400.

Alden, J.E. European Americana, 597/66.