Virgules replaced by commas in title page transcription.

Actual date of publication printed as part of title; date of 1603 appears on title page to plates, p. [1-2], 3rd count.

"Die gegen Nidergang gelegen" in first part of title page transcription printed within parentheses.

Constitutes the second part, only issue of the second German 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 had been identified as the second part, only issue of the second German edition of the Great voyages by Church.

The first and second editions of German part two can be identified by the letterpress text printed below illustrations on the plates, the appearance of a colophon, and the numbering of pages 1-42, 2nd count. Please see Church for a full accounting.

The C.C.A., on the title-page, are the initials of Carolus Clusius Artebatensis, i.e. Charles de L'Écluse, the celebrated botanist. Cf. Church.

German translation, by Oseam [possibly Hosea?] Halen, of the Latin edition of the second part of the Great voyages of de Bry printed under title "Brevis narratio eorum quae in Florida Americae provi[n]cia Gallis acciderunt", which was a translation of: L'histoire notable de la Floride / by Jacques le Moyne de Morgues, first printed Paris, 1586.

Incorrectly attributed to René de Laudonniere by Alden.

This part gives an account of the unfortunate expeditions of the French Huguenots to Florida under Jean Ribaut (1562); René de Laudonnière (1564); and Dominique de Gourgues (1567). The account of the expedition under Laudonnière was written by Jacques le Moyne, surnamed de Mourgues, an artist who accompanied the expedition. He escaped the massacre by the Spaniards at Fort Caroline and went to England where he dies. After his death his manuscripts and drawings were sold by his widow to de Bry, by whom they were first published. The authors of the other two narratives are unknown. Cf. Chruch.

"Die ander Schiffahrt der Frantzosen in Floridam, so eine Landtschafft in America ist, geschehen vnter dem Obersten Laudonniero, Anno M. D. LXV", p. 1-28, 2nd count, has separate caption title.

"Warhafftige vnnd eygentliche Beschreibung der dritten Schiffahrt, der Frantzosen, in Florida, (welche in dieser Historia die ander ist) geschehen vnter den Häuptmann Herrn Johann Ribald, im Jar 1565", p. 29-42, has separate caption title.

"Warhafftige Abconterfaytung der Wilden in America, so daselbst erstlichen lebendiger weise abgerissen, von Jacob le Moyne, oder Morges genannt. Jetzt aber in Kupffer gestochen, vnd an Tag gegeben, durch Dieterich von Bry. Vnd ist vnter einer jeden Figur ein kurtze Erklärung", p. [1-2], 3rd count, has separate, engraved dated title page with imprint: Getruckt zu Franckfort am Mayn, bey Wolffgang Richtern, in Verlegung Dieterichs de Bry seligen Wittib, vnd ihrer zween Söhne. Anno M. DCIII.

"Vnterhänige Supplication vnd Sendbrieff, an König Carlen, den Neundten, dieses Namens, in Franckreich, der verlassenen Wittwen vnd Waysen, Freunden, Verwandten, vnd Vnterthanen dess Königs in Franckreich, die von den Spaniern im neuwen Mitternächtigen Franckreich, welchs sie gemeiniglich Floridam nennen, schändtlich vnd jämmerlich sind erschlagen worden, im Jar M. D. LXV.", p. [5-10], 3rd count, has separate caption title.

"Warhafftige vnnd eygentliche Beschreibung der vierdten Schiffahrt, der Frantzosen, in Americam, (welche in dieser Historia die dritte ist) geschehen vnter dem Hauptmann Gourguesio, im Jahr 1567", p. [11-19], 3rd count, has separate caption title.

"Neben Bericht von dem Authore, vnd Gelegenheit dieser Historien", p. [20-29], 3rd count, has separate caption title.

Signatures: A-F⁴ (A1 verso blank) ²A-²F⁴ (²A1 verso blank) G-N⁴ O⁶ (O6 blank)

Includes index on p. [28], 3rd count.

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

Contains 43 leaves of plates, one of which is a double folded map of Florida and part of Cuba bound between p. [6], 1st count, and p. I, 2nd count; there are plates numbered I-XLII, which are printed on recto only and accompanied by letterpress text underneath illustrations which are bound following p. [1-2], 3rd count, and which are signed A3-4 through L⁴

Church, E.D. Discovery, 180.

Baginsky, P. German works relating to America, 120.

JCB Lib. cat., pre-1675, I: p. 389.

Alden, J.E. European Americana, 603/63.

First title page printed primarily in German with some words in Latin; second title page has imprint in Latin.