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

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

Imprint supplied by Church.

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

The second issue 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. [1-2], 2nd count; the text following the portrait of Christopher Columbus has eleven lines; the first edition copies also have errors in pagination where p. 6 is unnumbered, p. 26 is misnumbered 29, p. 74 is misnumbered 24, and p. 79-82 are misnumbered 89-92.

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 edition. 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. [1-2], 4th 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 I-XXII, printed on recto only, and bound following p. [1-2], 4th count which are signed A2-4 through F1-3.

Signatures: a-k⁴ (c2 missigned C2, e2 missigned E2, k2 missigned k3) (a1 verso blank) l² A-F⁴ (A1 verso, F4 blank)

Errors in paging: p. 26 is misnumbered 29, p. 74 is misnumbered 24.

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

Church, E.D. Discovery, 156a.

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

Alden, J.E. European Americana, 595/8.