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GOTTFRIED, Johann Ludwig (d.1646). Neue Welt und Americanische Historien. Frankfurt: Matthaeus Merian, 1631.
3 parts in one volume, 2° (360 x 230mm). Collation: ):(6; A-Aa6; a-j6 (lacking Aa6 = blank?). Engraved additional title (cut-down, torn with slight loss and mounted), 3 folding views, 5 folding maps and 175 half-page engraved illustrations. (2 views torn and repaired or shaved, 3 maps torn and repaired, mounted or shaved, some leaves torn, occasionally into the text, most repaired, e1 and e6 cut down.) Modern half-calf. Provenance: D.Elwedberg (inscription dated 1703); E.Brörn (signature).
FIRST EDITION of Gottfriedt's retelling of the histories of Acosta, Oviedo, Peter Martyr, Herrera, Laet, and others; of numerous voyages to America; of the expeditions of Lemaire and Peter Heyn, the conquests of Brazil by the Dutch, and descriptions of Greenland and Spitzbergen. The maps include a version of Smith's map of Virginia (Tooley p.163, derivative 3, which originally appeared in De Bry's Dreyzehunder Theil Americae, 1628) and a re-issue of Hondius' America noviter delineata without the decorative borders (Tooley p.298, giving 1634 as the publication date). Cf. Sabin 50 (second edition).
3 parts in one volume, 2° (360 x 230mm). Collation: ):(6; A-Aa6; a-j6 (lacking Aa6 = blank?). Engraved additional title (cut-down, torn with slight loss and mounted), 3 folding views, 5 folding maps and 175 half-page engraved illustrations. (2 views torn and repaired or shaved, 3 maps torn and repaired, mounted or shaved, some leaves torn, occasionally into the text, most repaired, e1 and e6 cut down.) Modern half-calf. Provenance: D.Elwedberg (inscription dated 1703); E.Brörn (signature).
FIRST EDITION of Gottfriedt's retelling of the histories of Acosta, Oviedo, Peter Martyr, Herrera, Laet, and others; of numerous voyages to America; of the expeditions of Lemaire and Peter Heyn, the conquests of Brazil by the Dutch, and descriptions of Greenland and Spitzbergen. The maps include a version of Smith's map of Virginia (Tooley p.163, derivative 3, which originally appeared in De Bry's Dreyzehunder Theil Americae, 1628) and a re-issue of Hondius' America noviter delineata without the decorative borders (Tooley p.298, giving 1634 as the publication date). Cf. Sabin 50 (second edition).