Virgules replaced by commas in title page transcriptions.

Constitutes the twelfth part, sole issue of the sole 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 has been identified as the sole issue of part twelve of the sole German edition of the Great voyages by Church.

Translation of: Descripción de las Indias Occidentalis, first printed Madrid, 1601, and selections of Viage del mundo / by Pedro Ordóñez de Ceballos, first printed Madrid 1614.

"Beschreibung dero Insulen vnd dess sesten Landes dess hohen oder grossen Meers, so man nennet West Indien, durch Antonium von Herrera, den obersten Geschicht Schreiber in Indien vnnd Castilien", p. 1-77, 2nd count, has separate caption title.

"Relation oder Bericht zweyter Caravellen, so der König von Hispanien im Jahr 1618. im Octobri, von Lisabona vnter dem Capitain Herrn Iohann von More abfahren lassen, den Pass dess de la Maire, gegen Suden, zu besuchen vnnd zu entdecken. Welche denn im Augusto dess 1619. Jahrs widerumb gen Sevillien angelanget seynd, vnd den König alles dessen, so ihnen begagnet, berichtet haben", p. 77-79, 2nd count, has separate caption title.

"Kurtzer Ausszug aller nach der Enge des Magellanischen Meers gethaner Reysen oder Schiff Fahrten. Vnd erstlich zwar von der Reyse Ferdinanden Magellans", p. 80, 2nd count, has separate caption title.

"Welche des Bischoffs von Placentz, Herrn Guiterres Carvaials, Schiffe gethan haben", p. 81, 2nd count, has separate caption title.

"Die dritte Reyse, zu der Engen des Magellanischen Meers durch die Suder See", p. 81, 2nd count, has separate caption title.

"Die vierdte Reyse, Bruders Garcia von Loaysa, den Keyser Carl mit sechs Schiffen obg[enannten] Enge zu suchen aussgesendet, im Jahr 1527", p. 81-82, 2nd count, has separate caption title.

"Herrn Frantzen Draken, zu eben deroselben Enge des Magaellanischen Meers, Reyse, im Jahr 1577. geschehen, &c.", p. 82--83, 2nd count, has separate caption title.

"Petern Sarmiento, der in Meynung, die Enge des Magellanischen Meers gegen Suden zu erfahren vnd zu besuchen, von Lima im Jahr 1579. aussgefahren, &c.", p. 83-84, 2nd count, has separate caption title.

"Die erste Schiff Fahrt des Candiss, so er gegen der Engen dess Magellanischen Meeres gethan, &c.", p. 84-85, 2nd count, has separate caption title.

"Die andere vnd letzte Schiff Fahrt Candiss, so er mit dreyen grossen vnnd zweyen kleinen Schiffen, zur Engen des Magellanischen Meeres zu, gethan", p. 85-86, 2nd count, has separate caption title.

"Reyse Fünff Schiffen, Jacoben Mahu, vnnd Simon Seylers, sonsten de Cordes genannt, so im Jahrs 1598. von Roterdam zu der Engen ses Magellanischen Meers zu gesegelt", p. 87-90, 2nd count, has separate caption title.

"Schiff Fahrt Herrn Oliviers vom Norden, welche er im Jahr 1598. mit vier Schiffen vnnd 148. Personen gethan, &c.", p. 90-91, 2nd count, has separate caption title.

"Erklärung etlicher Wörter, so in der Sprache etlicher Insulen dieser West Indien gebräuchlich seynd", p. 92-94, 2nd count, has separate caption title.

"Sonderbare Beschreibung der West Indien, die Gelegenheit ihrer Länder oder Lansdchafften, den Weg, so man nemmen muss, wenn man sie durchreysen will, vnd den Reichthumb an Gold vnd Silber, so man in ihrer jedem findet, befagende, durch Priester Petern Ordonnez, von Cevallos, der sie mit allem Fleiss ersuchet vnnd erkundiget", p. 95-113, 2nd count, has separate caption title.

"Beschreibung America, welches ist die Newe Welt. Aus Herrn Petri Bertiij Landt-Tafeln gezogen", p. 114-131, 2nd count, has separate caption title.

This part of the Great Voyages contains: 1. A description of the West Indies, by Herrera. 2. An account of a voyage made by the Nodals to explore the Straits of Magellan in 1618, written by Juan de More, a captain in that expedition. 3. Short accounts of voyages to the Straits of Magellan from 1519-1601, made by Magellan, Carvajal, de Loaysa, Drake, Cavendish, and others. 4. A vocabulary of some of the languages of the East India Indians. 5. A description of the West Indies, by Pedro Ordonnez de Cevallos. 6. A short description of America taken from the geographical tables in the atlas of P. Bertius. All these had previously been published under the title Novus Orbis, at Amsterdam in 1622, and were literally copied by De Bry, who also made use of the plates. This part lacks the Paralipomena Americae, which is merely an extract from Acosta's Historia natural y moral de las Indias, found at the beginning of part IX of the Great Voyages. Cf. Church.

Contains 15 maps, numbered 2-14, within the "Beschreibung dero Insulen vnd dess sesten Landes dess hohen oder grossen Meers, so man nennet West Indien", p. 1-77, 2nd count, and a double plan of the city of Cuzco bound between p. 98 and 99, 2nd count.

Signatures: pi² (pi1 verso blank) A-P⁴ Q⁶ (Q6 verso blank)

Text printed in two parallel columns.

Fully engraved title page has engraved portraits of Ferdinand Magellan, Francisco Pizarro, Christopher Columbus, Amerigo Vespucci, and depictions of Aztec figures; engraved head and tail pieces; initials.

Church, E.D. Discovery, 199.

Baginsky, P. German works relating to America, 152.

Streit, R. Bib. missionum, II:1543.

JCB Lib. cat., pre-1675, I: p. 416-417.

Alden, J.E. European Americana, 623/55.