Americae pars quinta
By: Nobilis & admiratione plena Hieronymi Bezoni [sic] Mediolanensis secundae sectionis Hi[stori]a[e] Hispaniorum, tùm in Nigrittas seruos suos, tùm in Indos crudelitatem, Gallorumq[ue], pirataru[m] de Hispanis toties reportata spolia; aduentu[m] item Hispanoru[m] in Nouam Indiae continentis Hispaniam, eorumq[ue] contra incolas eius regionis saeuitiam explicans. Addita ad singula fere capita scholia, in quibus res Indiae luculenter exponuntur. Accessit praeterea tabula chorographica Nouae Hispaniae in India Occidentali. Ad inuictis Rudolph. II. Rom. Imp. Aug. omni elegantibus figuris in aes incisis expressa à Theodoro de Bry Leod. cive Franc. A[nno] M D XCV
Contributors: Höniger, Nikolaus, active 16th century; Chauveton, Urbain, -approximately 1616; Bry, Theodor de, 1528-1598; Bry, Johann Theodor de, 1561-1623
Edition: Second edition
Series: Great voyages -- pt. 5.; Great voyages -- pt. 5.
Publisher: Durch Erasmum Kempffer.
Published: 1613
Place of publication: Gedruckt zu Franckfurt am Mayn
Language: ger
Number of pages: 115
Subjects: History; Description and travel; Discovery and exploration
Other titles: Americae pars qvinta.
Work titles: Historia del Mondo Nuovo. Book 2.
Notes: Virgules replaced by commas in title page to plates transcription.

First edition printed in Frankfurt am Main, 1595.

Printed at foot of title page proper: Cum privilegio S. C. Maiestatis.

Constitutes a hybrid of the fifth part, sole issue of the second Latin edition, printed Frankfurt am Main, 1617, and the sole issue of the second German edition, printed Frankfurt am Main, 1613 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 a hybrid of the sole issue of the second Latin edition and the sole issue of the second German edition of part five of the Great voyages by Church.

Imprint from title page to plates, p. [2-3], 2nd count.

The sole issue of the second edition of Latin part five can be identified by the title page proper printed with the "Hiā", which is a shortened form of "Historiae", inserted above and between the words "sectionis" and "Hispaniorum" and the word "invictis" on both the title page proper and the title page to the plates, p. [3-4], 3rd count; the text following the portrait of Christopher Columbus has thirteen lines; the second edition copies have p. 6 numbered and p. 26 is correctly numbered.

The second edition of German part five can be identified with a slip of the German title pasted over the Latin text on the engraved title page, with the text set as reproduced by Church; in the second edition the plates numbered I-XXII have their Roman numerals printed in the center above the captions for the plates.

German translation, by Nikolaus Höniger, of book two of: Historia del Mondo Nuovo / by Girolamo Benzoni, first printed Venice, 1565, of which the German text was first printed as book two of Der Newenn Weldt und indianischen Königreichs, newe unnd wahrhaffte History, Basel, 1579 and here supplemented by annotations by Urbain Chauveton in Novae Novi Orbis historiae, first printed Geneva, 1578.

This part contains the second portion of Girolamo Benzoni's Historia del Mondo Nuovo. The remainder was published in part VI. Benzoni's work was first published in Italian at Venice in 1565. It was translated into Latin by Urbain Chauveton. He also translated the work into French. De Bry has followed Chauveton's translation which was published at Geneva in 1578. Cf. Church.

"Folgen hernacher eigentliche vnd warhafftige Fürbildungen aller schöner vnerhörter Historien von der Spanier Wüten, beid wider ihre Knechte die Nigritten, vnd auch die Arme Indianer, item wie die Spanier von den Frantzösischen Meerräubern zum offtermal angegriffen vnd geplündert worden, dessgleichen wie sie das Newe Hispanien erfunden, vnd gantz erbärmlich mit den Armen Leuthen daselbst vmbgangen seyn, davon im fünfften Buch Americae gehandelt worden. Alles mit schönen Kupfferstücken vnd angehenckten kutzen Erklerungen an Tag geben, durch Johann Dietherich de Bry", p. [2-3], 2nd count, has letterpress title page only with imprint: Gedruckt zu Franckfurt am Mayn, durch Erasmum Kempffer. M. D. XIII.

Contains a double folded map of Mexico which is bound between p. 6 and 7, 1st count; also contains plates numbered I-XXII, with Roman numerals printed on outer right hand corner of pages, printed on recto only, and bound following p. [2-3], 2nd count which are signed A2-4 through F1-3.

Signatures: a-n⁴ (a1 verso blank) o⁶ (o6 verso blank) A-F⁴ (A1 verso, F4 blank)

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

Church, E.D.  Discovery, 157.

Church, E.D.  Discovery, 187.

Baginsky, P. German works relating to America, 131.

JCB Lib. cat., pre-1675, I: p. 395.

JCB Lib. cat., pre-1675, I: p. 396.

Alden, J.E. European Americana, 613/14.

Alden, J.E. European Americana, 617/17.