Regnvm Congo hoc est Vera descriptio regni Africani, qvod tam ab incolis qvam Lusitanis Congus appellatur
By: Per Philippvm Pigafettam, olim ex Edoardi Lopez acroamatis lingua Italica excerpta; nunc Latio sermone donata ab Avgvst. Cassiod. Reinio. Iconibus & imaginibus rerum memorabilium quasi viuis, opera & industria Ioan. Theodori & Ioan. Israelis de Bry fratrum, &c. exornata
Contributors: Reina, Casiodoro de, approximately 1520-1594; Bry, Theodor de, 1528-1598; Bry, Johann Israel de, -1611; Bry, Johann Theodor de, 1561-1623; Cavendish, H.
Edition: Second edition
Series: Small voyages -- part 1.; Small voyages -- part 1.
Publisher: Excudebat Erasmvs Kempffer, impensis haeredum Ioan. Theod. de Bry
Published: 1624
Place of publication: Francofvrti
Language: lat
Number of pages: 60
Subjects: Portuguese; Description and travel; Discovery and exploration
Other titles: Regnum Congo hoc est Vera descriptio regni Africani, quod tam ab incolis quam Lusitanis Congus appellatur.; Vera descriptio regni Africani, qvod tam ab incolis quam Lusitanis Congus appellatur.; Vera descriptio regni Africani, quod tam ab incolis quam Lusitanis Congus appellatur.
Work titles: Relatione del reame di Congo e delle circonvicine contrade
Notes: Constitutes the first 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 second Latin edition of part one of the Small voyages by Church.

Translation of: Relatione del reame di Congo e delle circonvicine contrade / by Filippo Pigafetta, first printed Rome 1591.

Contains the relation of the visit of Odoardo Lopez, a Portuguese, to the Congo in the year 1578. It was written by Filippo Pigafetta, from the dictation of Lopez. The Latin translation, here used, is the work of Cassiodore de Reyna. Cf. Church.

"Icones ad primam partem Indiae Orientalis quibus ad maiorem lectoris recreationem primvs Lvsitanorvm cvm rege congressvs, incolarvm arma et instrvmenta bellica, vestes tam faemineae quam virilis, & aliquorum animalium formae, quasi as viuum proponuntur. In aes incisae per Johannem Theodorum & Johannem Israelem de Bry, fratres & ciues Francofortensis", p. [9-10], 3rd count, has separate title page with imprint: Francoforti: Excudebat Erasnus Kempffer, impensis haeredum Ioannis Theodori & Ioannis de Bry, M DC. XXIV. [1624]

Signatures: )(⁴ ()(1 verso blank) A-H⁴ (G3 missigned C3) chi² (chi2 blank) 2A1 (2A1 verso blank)

Includes index.

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

Contains 1 folded and 2 double folded maps bound to face p. [8], 1st count, and 14 numbered leaves of plates which are printed on recto only and signed 2A2-2D3 following separate dated title page, p. [9-10],  3rd count.

Church, E.D.  Discovery, no. 206.

Alden, J.E. European Americana, 624/81.

JCB Lib. cat., pre-1675, I: p. 420.

Provenance of the John Carter Brown Library copy: H. Cavendish: book stamp on verso of title page.