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<dl><dd>Virgules replaced by commas in title page transcriptions</dd>
<dd>Added title page, engraved: Historia Antipodum oder Newe Welt. Das ist: Natur vnd Eigenschafft dess Halben theils der Erden, so West Indien genennt wird, der Eleme[n]ten, Beschöpffen Nationen vnd Inwohner, vnd wie diss alles durch mancherley Schiffahrten entdecket worden, mit fleiss zusam getrage[n] durch Johann Ludwig Gottfrid. Mit Landtafeln vnd Kupfferstucken gezieret vnd verleget durch Matthaeum Merian. 1631</dd>
<dd>Authorship has been erroneously ascribed to Johann Philipp Abelin. Cf. Der königlich schwedische in Teutschland geführte Krieg / by F. Gallati. Zurich, 1902</dd>
<dd>Place of publication and name of printer supplied by Alden</dd>
<dd>First Abridged edition, by Johann Ludwig Gottfried, of: America parts 1-12, as well as a reissue of part 14 / gathered and published by Theodor de Bry, Israel de Bry, Johann Theodor de Bry, and Matthaeus Merian, printed in Frankfurt am Main, 1590-1623 and Hanau, 1630</dd>
<dd>"Vierzehender Theil Americae. West-Indianischer Historien vierzehender Theil, inhaltendt gründliche Beschreibung der Natur vnd Eigenschafft etlicher Landen, deren hiebevor wenig oder gar nicht gedacht worden, samt Continuation newer Schiffarten, in vnderschiedliche Provincien", p. 1-72, 4th count, has separate caption title</dd>
<dd>Contains three double maps with titles "America nouiter delineata", "Das norder Theil des Lands Brasilien", and a double map of Virginia to accompany the voyages of Captain John Smith; also contains a single map of the West Indies with a part of China and one of the Straits of Magellan. There is also a double folded illustration with two views of the harbor of Olinda, in Brazil, and a double folded view with an inset map of Salvador, Brazil; contains numerous in text illustrations which are illustrations, maps, and plans</dd>
<dd>Signatures: ):(⁶ ():(1, ):(2 versos blank) A-3A⁶ (3A6 blank) a-f⁶</dd>
<dd>Added, engraved title page; engraved printer's ornament on title page; head and tail pieces; initials</dd>
<dd>Palau y Dulcet (2. ed.)</dd>
<dd>Streit, R. Bib. missionum</dd>
<dd>Baginsky, P. German works relating to America</dd>
<dd>JCB Lib. cat., pre-1675</dd>
<dd>Alden, J.E. European Americana</dd>
<dd>John Carter Brown Library copy has the double folded map with title "America nouiter delineata" bound between p. [12], 1st count, and p. [1], 2nd count; the single map of the West Indies and part of China bound to face p. 70, 2nd count; a double illustration of the silver fleet off of Cuba with an inset map of Cuba bound between p. 72 and 73, 2nd count; double folded map of "Das norder Theil des Lands Brasilien" bound between p. 138 and 139, 2nd count; a double map of Virginia to accompany the voyages of Captain John Smith bound between p. 166 and 167, 2nd count; a double view of Salvador, Brazil, with an inset map of the same region bound between p. 518 and 519, 2nd count; a single map of the Straits of Magellan bound to face 562, 2nd count; and the double folded plate with two views of the harbor of Olinda, in Brazil bound between p. 68 and 69, 4th count; also contains the numerous intext illustrations which are illustrations, maps, and plans</dd>
<dd>Provenance of the John Carter Brown Library copy: J.G. Schwarz: bookstamp on verso of added, engraved title page</dd></dl><br>Subjects: Smith, John, 1580-1631; Voyages and travels; Voyages around the world; Indians of North America; Cibola, Seven Cities of; Imprint 1631</div>
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<dl><dd>Gottfried, Johann Ludwig, active 17th century</dd>
<dd>Bry, Theodor de, 1528-1598</dd>
<dd>Bry, Johann Theodor de, 1561-1623</dd>
<dd>Bry, Johann Israel de, -1611</dd>
<dd>Merian, Matthaeus, 1593-1650</dd>
<dd>Abelin, Johann Philipp</dd>
<dd>Schwarz, J. G. fmo RIBRL</dd>
<dd>Espejo, Antonio de</dd>
<dd>Heyn, Piet, 1578-1629</dd>
<dd>Hermite, Jacques l', 1582-1624. Journael vande Nassausche vloot. German. Selections</dd>
<dd>Smith, John, 1580-1631. True travels, adventures, and observations of Captaine Iohn Smith. German. Selections</dd>
<dd>Loncq, Hendrik Cornelis, 1568-. Copie vande missive, gheschreven byden Generael Weerdenburch. German. Selections</dd></dl></div>
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