De Bry - Walter Raleigh - Search for Eldorado - 1599 - "Americæ Achter Theil. In welchem erstlich beschrieben wirt das Mächtige vnd Goldtreiche Königreich Guiana."

 "Americæ Achter Theil. In welchem erstlich beschrieben wirt das Mächtige vnd Goldtreiche Königreich Guiana."

-1599

-Theodore De Bry

-Rare First German Edition of one of the most important parts of De Bry's Grands Voyages.

-This part contains accounts of Drake and Cavendish's Circumnavigations as well as Raleigh's search for the fabled city of Eldorado.

-The book contains 21 (of 21) plates, and the complete text. The Book contains the beautiful double page map of Guiana. The second (of three) title pages is missing. 

The map has some restoration and facsimile work to the the lower and upper areas of the map.

Bound in modern Quarter Calf. Some toning to pages. Some restoration to pages. First title page washed.

Collation: Title Page 1, [3], MAP, 1-56, 1-30, Title Page 2 (Missing), 1-48, letterpress title to plates, Plates 1-6 (6 of 6) , TP 3 (Addiatamentum), [1]. 5-73 with blank at 47 as called for, Letterpress TP to plates, plates 1-15 (of 15).

Church states "This Part contains relations of six different voyages; three by Drake, one by Cavendish, and two by Sir Walter Raleigh. Drake's First Voyage (pp. 3-16) took place in 1577-80. No description of it had previously been published. This account, from which De Bry, and later Hakluyt, published it in Latin and English respectively, was written by Nino de Sylva, a Portuguese. The Second Voyage of Drake (pp. 17-32) around the world was finished in 1585. De Dry's account is based upon that of Thomas Gates. Drake's Third Voyage (pp. 33-44), directed against the Spanish at Panama, took place in 1595-96. This account is taken from his log-book of the expedition, which was continued by his men. Thomas Cavendish circumnavigated the world in 1586-88. An account of the voyage was written in English by Thomas Pretty who accompanied him. It was published by Hakluyt. De Bry's narrative appears to have been based upon a manuscript account of Pretty's relation. The First Voyage of Sir Walter Raleigh was undertaken in 1595, during which he visited Guiana. He himself published an account of it in London in 1596. The Second Voyage, attributed to Raleigh, does not appear to have been made by him, but by Laurent Keymis, a companion of the voyage of 1595, who set out for Guiana in 1596. On his return he wrote a description of his voyage which was published in London in the same year."

A set of important narratives including Drake's Circumnavigation and his naming of California as "New Albion". The German edition is less common than the latin edition.

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