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The Kraus Collection of Sir Francis Drake


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Kraus Sir Francis Drake Collection copy

Americae nona & postrema pars. Qva de ratione elementorvm: de Novi Orbis natvra: de hvivs incolarvm svperstitiosis cultibus: déq; forma politiae ac reipubl. ipsorum ... pertractatur ... His accessit designatio illivs navigationis, qvam 5 naues Hollandicae anno 1598, per Fretum Magellanum ... tentarunt: quomodo ... capitaneus Sebalt de Weert ... postquam plurimis mensibus in Freto ... miserè iactatus fuisset ... an. 1600 domum reuersus sit [per Bernhardvm Jansz.] Addita est tertio navigatio recens, qvam 4 navivm praefectus Olevier à Noort ... suscepit ... Omnia è Germanico Latinitate donata, & figuris aeneis coornata editaq́; sumptibus T. de Bry viduae & binorum filiorum [i.e. J.T. and J.I. de Bry]

Bry, Theodor de, 1528-1598, ed.

OTHER TITLES
America. pt. 9. Latin

CREATED/PUBLISHED
Francof., Apud M. Beckervm, 1602.

NOTES
Pts. 2, 3, and illus. have also special title pages.

The 1st pt., De Novi Orbis natura, is by José de Acosta.

First ed. Cf. Church. Cat. of books relating to ... America, 168.

Kraus, H.P. Sir Francis Drake, no. 31

SUBJECTS
America--Early accounts to 1600.
Weert, Sebald de.
Magellan, Strait of (Chile and Argentina)--Description and travel--Early works to 1800.
Voyages around the world--Early works to 1800.

RELATED NAMES
Acosta, José de, 1540-1600. Historia natural y moral de las Indias. Latin. 1602.
Potgieter, Barent Jansz, b. 1574. Wijdloopigh verhael van tgene de vijf schepen. Latin. 1602.
Noort, Olivier van, 1558 or 9-1627. Beschryvinghe van de voyagie. Latin. 1602.
Bry, Johann Theodor de, 1561-1623?
Bry, Johann Israel de, d. 1611.
Hans and Hanni Kraus Sir Francis Drake Collection (Library of Congress)

MEDIUM
362, 56, 100 p. 39 plates, map. 36 cm.

CALL NUMBER
G159 .B7 pt. 9 E141

DIGITAL ID
( Kraus Sir Francis Drake Collection copy ) rbdk d031_0468 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.rbc/rbdk.d031_0468

RELATED DIGITAL ITEMS
(Issued as part of: Grands Voyages. (Latin edition.))

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