Americae pars VIII
Subtitle: continens primo, descriptionem trium itinerum ... Francisci Draken, qui peragrato primum vniuerso terrarum orbe, postea cum ... Iohanne Hauckens, ad expugnandum ciuitatem Panama, in Indiam nauigauit, vbi vitam suam ambo finierunt : secundo, iter ... Thomae Candisch ... : tertio, duo itinera ... Gualtheri Ralegh ... nec non ... Laurentii Keyms : quibus itineribus describitur auriferum et potentissimum regnum Guiana ...
By: primo quidem anglicana lingua partim ab equitibus ipsis, partim ab aliis ... ; iam verò in vnum corpus redacta, & in latinum sermonem conuersa, auctore M. Gotardo Artus Dantiscano
Contributors: Arthus, Gotthard, 1568-; Silva, Nuno da; Gates, Thomas, Sir, -1621; Bry, Johann Israel de, -1611; Bry, Theodor de, 1528-1598; Bry, Theodor de, 1528-1598; Pretty, Francis; Fondo Cicognara (Biblioteca apostolica vaticana); Leopoldo Cicognara Program (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Series: Cicognara library
Publisher: Per Matthaeum Becker, sumptibus dictorum Theodorici de Bry viduae & filiorum
Published: 1599
Place of publication: Impressae Francofurti ad Moenum
Language: lat
Format: [microform] :
Number of pages: 99
Subjects: Early works to 1800; Voyages around the world
Notes: Imprint supplied from title page to plates.

Separate title page: Tabulae & imagines ad septimam et octavam Americae partem ... Impressae Francofurti ad Moenum : per Matthaeum Becker, sumptibus dictorum Theodorici de Bry viduae & filiorum, 1599.

This Part contains relations of six different voyages; three by Drake, one by Cavendish, and two by Sir Walter Raleigh. Drake's first voyage (p. 3-16) took place in 1577-1580. No description of it had previously been published. This account, from which De Bry, and later Hakluyt, published it in Latin and English respectively, was written by Nuno da Silva, a Portuguese. Drake's second voyage (p. 17-32) around the world was finished in 1585. De Bry's account is based upon that of Thomas Cates. Drake's third voyage (p. 33-44), directed against the Spanish at Panama, took place in 1595-1596. This account is taken from his log-book of the expedition, which was continued by his men. Thomas Cavendish circumnavigated the globe in 1586-1588. An account of the voyage was written in English by Francis Pretty who accompanied him. De Bry's narrative appears to have been based on Pretty's account. The first voyage of Sir Walter Raleigh was undertaken in 1595. He himself published an account of it in London in 1596 (Church no. 254). The second voyage attributed to Raleigh does not appear to have been made by him, but rather by Laurence Kemys, who accompanied Raleigh on the 1595 voyage. On his return, Kemys wrote and published in London an account of his trip (Church no. 250).

Brunet, I, col. 1310-1344

Church, E.D. Discovery, 164.

Cicognara, 3970