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DE BR Y. 



Voyages to 



America 



in Latin. 



Part VIII. 

 I" edition. 



Part VIII. 

 z"" 1 issue. 



2. Text. Pp. 3-35, with four plates on the letterpress. The preliminary leaves 

 do not occur in this edition, and the text is printed in double columns. 



%* Brunet, speaking of the title to this part, says, " Ce frontispice conserve les 

 mots editio tertia, qui, comme nous l'avons deja dit, se rapportent a la 5 e partie, 

 pour laquelle la meme planche avait deja servi." But it was the third, not the 

 fifth part for which the frontispiece was engraved, and in this copy at least the 

 words " editio tertia " are not found. 



AMERICA PARS VIII. Continens Primo, descriptionem trivm 

 itinervm nobilissimi et fortissimi eqvitis Francisci Draken, qvi per- 

 agrato primvm vniverso ten-arum orbe postea cum nobilissimo Equite 

 Iohanne Havckens, ad expugnandum ciuitatem Panama, in Indiam 

 nauigauit, vbi vitam suam ambo finierunt. Secvndo, iter nobilissimi 

 Equitis Thomas Candisch, qui duorum fere annorum spacio, 1300. 

 Anglicana miliaria in mari confecit, vbi describuntur quoque omnia 

 qua; in hoc itinere ipsi accederunt & visa sunt. Tertio, duo itinera, 

 nobilissimi & fortissimi Domini Gvaltheri Ralegh Equitis & designati 

 gubernatoris Regij in Anglia praefidij, nec non fortissimi Capitanei 

 Lavrentii Keyms. Ovibvs itineribvs describitvr avrifervm et potentis- 

 simum Regnum Gviana, ad Septentrionem fluminis Orenoqve, alias 

 Oregliana dicti,situm,cum metropoli eius Manoa& Macviegvarai, aliisq; 

 finitimis regionibus & fluuiis, mercibus item praastantissimis, & merca- 

 tura, qua; in regno hoc exercetur. Primo qvidem anglicana lingva 

 partim ab eqvitibvs ipsis, partim ab aliis, qui hisce itineribus interfue- 

 runt, sparsim consignata ; lam vero in unum Corpus redacta, & in 

 Latinum Sermonem conuersa, auctore M. Gotardo Artvs Dantiscano. 

 Fignris & imaginibus artificiose illustrata & in lucem emissa, opera & 

 sitmptibus Tlieodorici de Bry P. M. relictcs Vidua? & filiorum. Anno 

 M.D.XCIX. 



1. Letterpress title as above. Over the last three lines is a small map of the 

 two hemispheres, with a portrait of Sir F. Drake between them. 



2. " Prasfatio ad lectorem," 1 leaf. 



3. Map of Guiana. 



4. Text. Pp. 3-78 and 1-99. This copy has pp. 77-8 in the first part, and pp. 3-4 

 in the second, in duplicate, one with, and one without, the small maps at the foot of 

 pp. 78 and 3. 



5. Letterpress title, " Tabula; & imagines ad septimam et octavam Americae 



partem Impressa Frattcofvrii ad Moenvm per Matthcevm Becker, sump- 



iibus dictorum Tlieodorici de Bry vidua &" filiorum. Anno M.D.XCIXP 



6. Plates 1. -xviii. 



AMERICA PARS VIII. Continens primo, descriptionem trivm 

 Itinervm Anno M.D.XCIX. 



This issue was unknown to Brunet except through " un catalogue de livres 

 curieux imprime" a New York en 1854" [by Mr. James Lenox], and he expresses an 

 opinion that " ce doit etre une edition faite pour Merian apres l'annde 1625," which 

 is unquestionably a mistake. 



It is in fact a reissue of the first edition with only this difference, that the first title 

 and the text to the end of p. 6 have been reprinted. The text begins on the back of 



