Printed at foot of title pages: Cum privilegio S. C. Maiestatis.

Constitutes the fifth part, sole issue of the second Latin edition 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 the sole issue of part five of the second Latin edition of the Great voyages by Church.

Imprint supplied by Church.

First edition printed Frankfurt am Main, 1595.

Church thinks that this second edition was issued about 1617 by H. Galler but still gives the responsibility of printing to Theodor de Bry.

The Roman numeral dates on title pages are made with backwards C's.

The sole issue of the second edition of Latin part five can be identified by the title page proper printed with the "Hiā", which is a shortened form of "Historiae", inserted above and between the words "sectionis" and "Hispaniorum" and the word "invictis" on both the title page proper and the title page to the plates, p. [3-4], 3rd count; the text following the portrait of Christopher Columbus has thirteen lines; the second edition copies have p. 6 numbered and p. 26 is correctly numbered.

Latin translation, by Urbain Chauveton, of book two of: Historia del Mondo Nuovo / by Girolamo Benzoni, first printed Venice, 1565, which was first printed in Latin, Geneva, 1578, under title: Novae Novi Orbis historiae.

This part contains the second portion of Girolamo Benzoni's Historia del Mondo Nuovo. The remainder was published in part VI. Benzoni's work was first published in Italian at Venice in 1565. It was translated into Latin by Urbain Chauveton. He also translated the work into French. De Bry has followed Chauveton's translation which was published at Geneva in 1578, and has added to it Latin translations of some of the notes which appeared in the French edtion. Cf. Church.

"Americae pars quinta nobilis & admiratione plena Hieronymi Bezoni [sic] Mediolanensis secundae sectionis Hi[stori]a[e] Hispaniorum, tum in Nigrittas seruos suos, tum in Indos crudelitatem, Gallorumq[ue] pirataru[m] de Hispanis toties reportata spolia; aduentu[m] item Hispanoru[m] in Nouam Indiae continentis Hispaniam, eorumq[ue]. contra incolas eius regionis saeuitiam explicans. Addita ad singula fere capita scholia, in quibus res Indiae luculenter exponuntur. Accessit praeterea tabula chorographica Nouae Hispaniae in India Occidentali. Ad inuictis Rudolph. II. Rom. Imp. Aug. omnia elegantibus figuris in aes incisis expressa à Theodoro de Bry Leod. cive Franc. A[nno] M D XCV", p. [3-4], 3rd count, has fully engraved title page.

Contains a double map of Mexico which is bound between p. [4] and 5, 2nd count; also contains plates numbered 1-22, printed on recto only, and bound following p. [3-4], 3rd count which are signed A2-4 through F1-3.

Signatures: a-h⁴ (f3 missigned f2) (a 1 verso blank) i⁶ (i6 blank) A-F⁴ (A1 verso, F4 blank)

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

Church, E.D. Discovery, 157.

JCB Lib. cat., pre-1675, I: p. 395.

Alden, J.E. European Americana, 617/17.

John Carter Brown Library copy has double map of Mexico bound between p. [4] and 5, 2nd count, and all plates appearing in the second state, as printed in the sole issue of the second Latin edition, and are identified in pencil in the upper right hand corner, as they are described by Church.