"Veram et historicam descriptionem auriferi regni Guineae."

"Veram et historicam descriptionem auriferi regni Guineae."

- Indiae Orientalis part 6

-Johann Theodor de Bry; Johann Israel de Bry;

Pieter de Marees

-Published by  in Frankfurt by WolfgangRichteri

-1604

-Quarto, 29 x 20 cm

-Complete: TP, [8], 1-127, TP to plates. 26 half-page engraved illustrations (Complete)

First edition of part 6 of de Bry's Petits Voyages in Latin. This volume covers Pieter de Marees's Dutch expedition to Guinea, 1600-01. one of the earliest detailed European descriptions of West African society and an essential reference for the precolonial period.