Title Page to Part 4 of the Grands Voyages De Bry Benzoni / Columbus 1594

Title page to the Fourth Part of America (Grands Voyages)

Published by Theodore De Bry in 1594

Very Good condition 

33 x 23cm approx

This introduces the account of Girolamo Benzoni's "La Historia del Mondo Nuovo", originally published in 1565. In particular, it deals with the voyages of Columbus whose three ships are shown below, sailing to America in 1492. The Indians he encountered, along with the flora of the New World, decoratively surround the title panel. A devil with a face in his stomach represents the idols worshiped by the Peoples encountered there.