Virgules replaced by commas in title page transcription.

Constitutes the third 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.

Colophon on p. [5], 3rd count reads: Gedruckt zu Franckfurt am Mayn, durch Matthes Becker, in Verlegung Johann Theodor, vnd Johann Israel de Bry, Gebrüder. Anno Christi, M. D. XCIX. [1599]

This work has been identified as the first German edition of part three of the Small voyages by Church.

The first part is a translation of selections of: Itinerario, voyage ofte schipvaert, van Ian Huygen van Linschoten naer Oost ofte Portugaels Indien / by Jan Hyugen van Linschoten, first printed Amsterdam, 1596.

"Indianische Historia, darinnen erzehlet wirdt, was den Holländischen Schiffen widerfahren, mit sonderbarer Anzeig ser Sitten, Religion, Wesen vnd Hausshaltung der Völcker, so die Holländer besucht, vnd was für Geldt, Specerey, Gewürtz, vnd Kauffmannschafft bey denselben, vnd vmb was Preiss, zufinden", p. 85-172, is a translation of: Verhael vande reyse by de hollandtsche schepen gedaen naer Oost Indien published by Barent Langenes, Middelburg, 1597. The voyage was made under the command of Cornelis de Houtman.

"Gerardus de Veer von Amsterdam. L.S.", p. 173-233, [1], 2nd and 3rd counts, is a translation of: Waarachtige beschrijving van drie seylagien, ter werelt noyt soo vreemt ghehoort, drie jaeren achter malcanderen deur de Hollandtsche ende Zeelandtsche schepen by noorden Noorweghen, Moscovia ende Tartaria, na de coninckrijcken van Catthai ende China ..., / by Gerrit de Veer, first printed Amsterdam, 1598.

This part contains (1) chapters 92-99 of Linschoten's voyages, translated by Bilibaldus Strobaeus. (2) The first chapters of an account of a voyage made to the East Indies in 1595-97 under the direction of Cornelius de Houtman. This is a translation of the German edition which the de Brys published in 1598. A Latin edition was printed at Amsterdam in 1598, but this was not used in this translation, which is inferior to it. (3) A journal of three voyages made by the Dutch in 1594-97, in their attempts to reach the East Indies by the north. This relation, written by Gerrit de Veer, was published in Amsterdam in 1598. A translation in Latin by Carolus Clusius Atrebatensis (Charles de l'Ecluse, d'Arras), which was published in the same year, was used, with many omissions, in this part. Cf. Church.

Also contains the first part of Willem Lodewijcksz's Navigatio Hollandorum in insulas Orientales, first printed Amsterdam, 1598, under title D'eerste boeck; Historie van Indien. Includes references to Brazil. Cf. Alden.

"Warhafftige, Eygentliche Contrafaytung vn[d] Fürbildung, der SeeMappen, Insulen, Stätten vnd Völcker, wie auch deren Leben, Sitten vnd Trachten, &c. welcher gestalt dieselbigen auff der gantzen Schiffart in Orient nach Indiam, fürkommen: vnd dann in diesen dreyen Büchern der Ost Indianischen Beschreibung aussführlich erklärt werden. Sampt gemelter SeeMappen vnd Figurn kurtzer Explication vnd Bericht, sonderlich bey jedes Stück angefügt. Schön, zierlich vnd klärlich in Kupffer gestochen, von neuwen am Tag geben, vnd für Augen gestelt, durch Hans Dieterich, vnd Hans Israel de Bry, Gebrüder, vnd Bürger zu Franckfurt am Mayn", p. [3-4], 3rd count, has imprint: Gedruckt zu Franckfurt am Mayn, durch Matthes Becker. M. D. XCIX. [1599]

Signatures: )(⁶ ()(1 verso, )(6 blank) A-2F⁴ (L2 verso blank) chi1 a1 (a1 verso blank) q2.

Errors in paging: p. 145 and 201 missigned 146 and 101 respectively.

Errata: p. [10], 1st count.

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

Contains 11 leaves of plates, 5 of which are double folded (one of which is a double folded map on 2 sheets bound between p. 54 and 55) and 58 numbered leaves of plates (one of which is a double plates, and one of which is folded) which are signed a2-h4, i2, k1-q3.

Church, E.D. Discovery, no. 230.

Alden, J.E. European Americana, 599/53.

JCB Lib. cat., pre-1675, I: p. 427.

John Carter Brown Library copy has double folded illustration of the harbor of St. Helena bound between p. 48 and 49, illustration of the Ascension Islands bound to face p. 52, double folded plan of Angra bound betwen p. 64 and 65, double folded map of North Africa and double folded map "Descriptio hydrographica" bound between p. [84] and 85, and double folded polar map bound between p. 176 and 177; all 58 plates are present, and plate 58 has the map of Nova Zembla on verso, following p.[2-3], 3rd count.