Indiae Orientalis pars VI. Veram et historicam descriptionem auriferi regni Guineae, ad Africam pertinentis, quod alias littus de Mina vocant
Subtitle: continens, qua situs loci, ratio vrbium & domorum, portus item & flumina varia, cum variis incolarum superstitionibus, educatione, forma, commerciis, linguis & moribus, succincta breuitate explicantur & percensentur
By: Latinitate ex Germanico donata studio & opera M. Gotardi Arthvs Dantiscani. Illustrata vero viuis, & artificiosissime aes incisis iconibus, inque lucem edita à Iohanne Theodoro & Iohanne Israel de Bry fratribus
Contributors: Arthus, Gotthard, 1568-; Bry, Theodor de, 1528-1598; Bry, Johann Israel de, -1611; Bry, Johann Theodor de, 1561-1623; Rhode Island Historical Society. Library
Series: Small voyages -- part 6.; Small voyages -- part 6.
Publisher: Ex officina Wolfgangi Richteri, sumptibus Iohan, [sic] Theodori & Iohan. Israel de Bry fratribus.
Published: 1604
Place of publication: Francofurti ad Moenum
Language: lat
Number of pages: 127
Subjects: Natural history; Description and travel
Other titles: Indiae Orientalis pars VI. Veram et historicam descriptionem avriferi regni Gvineae, ad Africam pertinentis, qvod alias littvs de Mina vocant.; Veram et historicam descriptionem avriferi regni Guineae, ad Africam pertinentis, quod alias littus de Mina vocant.; Veram et historicam descriptionem a vriferi regni Gvineae, ad Africam pertinentis, qvod alias littvs de Mina vocant.
Work titles: Beschrijving en historisch verhaal van het Gouden Koninkrijk van Guinea
Notes: Constitutes the sixth 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 first issue of the sole Latin edition of part six of the Small voyages by Church.

This part contains a description of the kingdom of Guinea in Africa, the results of observations made in a voyage, undertaken by the Dutch, in the years 1600-1601; together with a history of the early voyages to that coast by the Portuguese, French, and Dutch. The original account, which is the first description of that country in Dutch, was written by Peter de Marees and published at Amsterdam in 1602. It was translated, with changes, into German by Gothardt Artus for the German edition of part VI. which appeared in 1603, and into Latin for this edition. Cf. Church.

Translation of: Beschrijving en historisch verhaal van het Gouden Koninkrijk van Guinea / by Pieter de Marees, first printed Amsterdam, 1602.

There are three issues of the sole Latin edition of part 6. In the first issue, plates II and III are wrongly printed with the plate of the women being printed with the text for the men and vice-versa. The second issue has plates II and III printed with the correct text. The third issue has plates II and III printed with the correct text and plate XXV has been re-engraved to be much darker, with land under the animals on the lower portion of the plate. In all issues plate II has been misnumbered III.

"Icones seu Verae vivae repraesentationes omnivm praecipvarvm rervm, de quibvs in hoc libro petractarum est, virorum nempe & mulierum cum vestimentis, armis & ornatu ipsorum, mercatuum item & superstitionum, bellorum, ludiciorum, aedificiorum, piscationum, co[m]merciorum, & rerum huiusmodi aliarum: cermoniarum item creandi nobiles & sepeliendi defunctos: variorum praeterea animalium, arborum & fructuum ex terra nascentium, &c. quae omnia in aurifero Guineae littore inueniuntur & cernuntur. Elegantissime in aes incisae, & legentium oculis expositae. Studio & opera Iohannis Theodori, et Iohannis Israelis de Bry, fratrum germanorum", p. [2-3], 3rd count, has separate title page with imprint: Francoforti. Ex officina typographica Wolffgangi Richteri, sumptibus fratrum praedictorum. M. DCIII. [1603]

Signatures: (?)⁴ ((?)1 verso, (?) blank) A-Q⁴ (Q4 verso bank) ²A1 (²A1 verso blank)

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

Contains 26 leaves of plates which are printed on recto only and numbered I-XXVI, following p. [2-3], 3rd count, and which are signed ²A2-²F4 and ²G1-3.

Church, E.D. Discovery, 213.

JCB Lib. cat., pre-1675, I: p. 433-434.

Alden, J.E. European Americana, 604/46.