Indiae Orientalis pars vndecima
Subtitle: quâ continetur I. Duarum navigationum, quas jussu Emanuelis Portugalliae regis in Indiam Orientalem Ann. 1501. Dn. Americus Vesputius instituit, historia. II. Vera atque hactenus inaudita Angli cujusdam relatio, qui nave quadam, cui Ascenionis nomen, in extremam Indiae Orientalis oram Cambajam vectus, ac naufragium ibidem passus, postea quàm plurimas nobis incognitas regiones, amplissimasq[ue] urbes peragravit, ińque iis multa lectu auditúque jucunda observavit. III. Descriptio regionis Spitzbergae additâ simul relatione in juriarum, quas Ann. 1613. alii piscatores ab Anglis perpessi sunt: & protestatione contra Anglos, qui sibi folis omne jus in istam regionem vendicarunt. Nunc primum Latio donata, atq[ue] elegantissimè in aes incisis imaginibus illustratae
By: Sumptibus atq[ue] operâ Johannis Theodori de Bry civis ac bibliopolae Oppenhemensis
Contributors: Bry, Theodor de, 1528-1598; Bry, Johann Israel de, -1611; Bry, Johann Theodor de, 1561-1623; Vespucci, Amerigo, 1451-1512; Coverte, Robert; Gerritsz., Hessel, approximately 1581-1632
Series: Small voyages -- part 11.; Small voyages -- part 11.
Publisher: Typis Hieronymi Galleri.
Published: 1619
Place of publication: Oppenhemii
Language: lat
Number of pages: 62
Subjects: Whaling; Discovery and exploration; Italian; Description and travel
Other titles: Indiae Orientalis pars undecima.
Notes: Constitutes the eleventh 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 eleven of the Small voyages by Church.

This part contains three narratives: (1) The relations of the third and fourth voyages of Vespuccius to America, in 1501 and 1503. (2) An account of Robert Coverte's travels by land through Persia and Mongolia [here, Church is incorrect. Instead of Mongolia, it is the Mogul Empire], after his shipwreck off Surat. This relation was first printed in English, at London in 1612. (3) A geographical description of Spitzbergen and a refutation of the claims of the English to the northern whale fisheries, with the journal of the voyage of Willem Barentsz and Jan Corneliszoon Rijp, in 1596. The latter portion is a translation of Hessel Gerritsz' Histoire du Pays nommé Spisberghe; Amsterdam, 1613. Cf. Church.

"Tertia [and Quarta] Dn. Americi Versputii, jussu Emanuelis Portugalliae regis in Indiam anno 1501. suscepta navigatio", p. 5-10, is a reprint of selections of the author's: Mundus novus, first printed under title: Albericus Vespuccius Laurentio Petri Francisci de Medicis salutem plurimam dicit / Amerigo Vespucci, Paris, 1503 but generally known as: Mundus novus.

"Vera, atque hactenus inaudita relatio Angli cujusdam, qui navi quadam, cui Ascencionis nomen, in extremam Indiae Orientalis oram, Cambajam vectus, naufragio ibidem facto, terrestri itinere quàm plurimas incognitas regiones, urbésq[ue] amplissimas vario fortunae modò saevientis, modò blandientis successu peragravit: ac quae unoquoque in loco notaru reperit digna, literis diligenter consignavit", p. 11-46, is a translation of: A true and almost incredible report of an Englishman, that (being cast away in the good ship called the Assention in Cambaya the farthest part of the East Indies) trauelled by land through many vnknowne kingdomes, and great cities / by Robert Coverte, first printed London, 1612.

"Historica descriptio regionis Spitsbergae, ejus primam detectionem, situm, naturam, animalia &c. ordine recensens", p. 47-62, is a translation of: Histoire du Pays nommé Spisberghe / collected and edited by Hessel Gerritsz, printed in Amsterdam, 1613, which is, in turn, a translation of selections of his: Descriptio ac delineatio geographica detectonis freti; sive Transitus ad occasum, supra terras Americanas, in Chinam atque Japonem ducturi, recens investigati ab M. Henrico Hudsono Anglo, first printed in Amsterdam, 1612.

"Sqvventvr verae et genuinae rerum praecipuarum, quarum in Americi Vesputii versus Indiam Orientalem navigationibus, ut & reliquis duabus in Cambajam & Spitzbergam expeditionibus fit mentio, repraesentationes, ad XI. Indiae Orientalis partem referendae additae svnt breves et vnivs cuivsque figurae descriptiones. Nunc primùm eleganter in aes incisae & in lucem editae. Studio & operâ Johann-Theodori de Bry civis ac bibliopolae Oppenheimensis", p. [3-4], 2nd count, has separate title page with imprint: Oppenheimii typis Hieronymi Galleri. Anno M DC XIX. [1619]

There are two states of the title page: in the first one, the vignette has two natives and a center engraved portrait of Olivier van Noort, with two map hemispheres; the other has a native woman on the left with her child and a native man on the right with two ships in the center.

Signatures: A-H⁴ (A1 verso, H4 blank) a1 (a1 verso blank)

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

Contains 10 leaves of plates, which are numbered I-X, all of which are printed on recto only, and are signed [a]2-4, b1-c3 following p. [3-4], 2nd count.

This copy contains the rare Plate VII, of a woman being carried in state to be burned with the body of her husband. This is often replaced by the plate, in which a woman is represented as throwing herself into the funeral pyre of her husband, used as plate IX., in no. 207. Cf. Church.

John Carter Brown Library copy 2 measures 32 cm. in height but is bound in a larger binding measuring 35 cm. in height.

Church, E.D. Discovery, 223.

JCB Lib. cat., pre-1675, I: p. 442-443.

Alden, J.E. European Americana, 619/30.