Dritte Buch Americae, darinn Brasilia
Subtitle: durch Johann Staden von Homberg auss Hessen, auss eigener erfahrung in Teutsch beschrieben. Item Historia der Schiffart Ioannis Lerij in Brasilien, welche er selbst publiciert hat, jetzt von newem verteutscht, durch Teucrium Annaeum  Priuatum, C.  Vom Wildern vnerhörten wesen der Innwoner, von allerley frembden Gethieren vnd Gewächsen, sampt einem Colloquio, in der Wilden Sprach
By: Alles von newem mit künstlichen Figuren in Kupffer gestochen vnd an Tag geben, durch Dieterich Bry von Lüttich, jetzt Burger zu Franckfurt am Mayn. 1593
Contributors: Bry, Theodor de, 1528-1598; Léry, Jean de, 1534-1611
Edition: First edition
Series: Great voyages -- pt. 3.; Great voyages -- pt. 3.
Publisher: Venales reperiu[n]tur in officina Theodori de Bry.
Published: 1593
Place of publication: Frankfurt am Main]
Language: ger
Number of pages: 285
Subjects: Indians of South America; Natural history; Tupi language; Glossaries, vocabularies; Indian linguistics; Description and travel; History
Other titles: Dritte Buch Americae.; Brasilia.
Work titles: Warhaftige Historia und Beschreibung eyner Landtschafft der wilden, nacketen, grimmigen Menschfresser Leuthen in der Newenwelt America gelegen
Notes: Virgules replaced by commas in title page transctiptions.

Actual date of publication supplied by Church.

Constitutes the sole issue of the first German edition of part three 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 sole issue of the first German edition of part three of the Great voyages by Church.

The sole issue of the first edition of German part three can be identified by line 6 of the title ending in "publiciert hat" and line 9 has the word "vnerhörten"; a fully engraved title page appears on p. [1], 3rd count; also the titles printed in the spaces left for them on the engraved title pages have slips pasted on with the text; other textual differences exist between the first and the second editions which can be found in Church.

First printed under title: Warhaftige Historia und Beschreibung eyner Landtschafft der wilden, nacketen, grimmigen Menschfresser Leuthen in der Newenwelt America gelegen, Marburg, 1557.

German translation of: Histoire d'un voyage fait en la terre du Brésil, first printed La Rochelle, 1578 and which first appeared in Latin under title: Historia navigationis in Brasiliam, quae et America dicitur, Geneva, 1586.

This part is made up of two separate narratives: the first is an account of two voyages made to Brazil in 1546-1548 and 1549-1555 by Johann von Staden. This narrative was originally written in German by the author and published at Marburg in 1557. The second part is an account of a voyage to Brazil in 1556-1558, by Jean de Léry. The narrative of this voyage was originally published in French in 1578. Cf. Church.

"Schiffart in Brasilien in America, darinn dess autoris Reiss, auch viel frombde Thiere vnd Gewächss, den vnseren gantz vnbekandt, beschrieben werden: durch Ioannem Lerium Burgundum, selbsten verricht vnd beschrieben, beyd in Frantzösisch vnd Latein, jetzt auffs new verteutscht, durch Teucrium Annaeum Priuatem, C. Mit künstlichen Figuren gezieret vnd von newem an Tag geben, durch Dieterich Bry von Lüttich, jetzt Burger zu Franckfurt. 1593", p. [1-32], 3rd count, and p. 93-249, 248-285, 4th and 5th counts, has fully engraved title page with imprint: Venales reperiu[n]tur in officina Theodori de Bry.

The "Schiffart in Brasilien in America." beginning on p. [1-32], 3rd count, has sections on p. 162, 168, p. 219 and 222, 4th counts, which contain staves of music with chants in a native Brazilian language, and other scattered words in this language, which is spoken by the Tuppin Imba people, possibly the Tupi tribe; a dialogue in the [possible] Tupi language appears in German and Tupi on p. 248-249 and 248-264, 4th and 5th counts.

Contains one double folded map of part of Central and South America bound between p. [8] and [9], 1st count, the engraved illustration of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden on p.  [32], 3rd count, and 30 described engravings printed within the text, many of which are duplicated on other pages as listed by Church.

Signatures: (:)⁴ ((:)3 missigned (:)2) ((:)1 verso blank) A-L⁴ M⁶ ²A-²M⁴ (²A1 verso blank) N-2D⁴ (V3 missigned T3) 2E⁶ (2E6 verso blank)

Errors in paging: p. 175 misnumbered 176; p. 261 misnumbered 251.

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

Arents, G. Tobacco, 42.

Church, E.D.  Discovery, 181.

JCB Lib. cat., pre-1675, I: p. 392-393.

Alden, J.E. European Americana, 593/62.

Title page primarily in German with some words in title and imprint in Latin.