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JOHANN THEODOR DE BRY (1561-1623) and JOHANN ISRAEL DE BRY
[Small Voyages]. Frankfurt and Oppenheim, 1600-1616. Parts 3 to 5 in 1 volume, 2° (283 x 196mm.). Titles within engraved allegorical border, engraved plates and maps. (Some discolouration, browning and spotting, some marginal repairs, some headlines shaved.) Modern vellum.
The collection comprises:
Ander Theil der Orientalischen Indien, von allen Völckern ... so von Portugal ausz, lengst dem Gestaden Aphrica, bisz in Ost Indien und zu dem Land China. Frankfurt: Eramus Kempfer, 1613. 37 (of 38) engraved plates, one double-page. (Lacking plate 4, plates 14 and 37 with long closed tear, whole in plate 16 repaired with loss.)
Dritter Theil Indiae Orientalis. Darinnen erstlich das ander Theil der Schifffahrten Johann Huygens von Lintschotten ausz Holland, so er in Orient gethan. Oppenheim: Hieronymus Galler, 1616. 8 (of 9) double-page or folding engraved maps and 2 engraved plates, 58 engraved plates with a further map of Nova Zembla on verso of plate 58. (Lacking map of the Ascension Islands, old worming and repairs to maps, one map stained, another detached.)
Vierdter Theil der Orientalischen Indien in welchen erstlich gehandelt wirt von allerley Thiern, Früchten, Obs und Bäumen ... Specereyen und Materialen, auch von Perlen und Edelgesteinen ... gennant werden. Oppenheim: Hieronymus Galler, 1617 [the title to the plates dated 1600]. 21 engraved plates. (Plate XI browned and laid down, inner gutter of last leaf strengthened.)
A collection of three of the rare 'small voyages' of the brothers Johann Theodor and Johan Israel de Bry. They were thirteen parts in total, most parts appearing in two editions over a period of 17 years (1598-1615). The whole collection was a highly ambitious project and part of the De Brys' wider interest in exploration and travel. The German edition appeared after the Latin but is considered the rarer of the two, and as the work became ever larger so production order and the distinctions between editions became somewhat blurred. Only one copy with all thirteen parts has appeared at auction in recent years, all other copies, like the present, containing only a number of the total voyages published. The three voyages offered here relate to the travels of Jan Huygen van Linschoten (1563-1611) who was noted for the travels he made in the East Indies, in particular to the Portuguese East Indies. Brunet I 1355-1357.
[Small Voyages]. Frankfurt and Oppenheim, 1600-1616. Parts 3 to 5 in 1 volume, 2° (283 x 196mm.). Titles within engraved allegorical border, engraved plates and maps. (Some discolouration, browning and spotting, some marginal repairs, some headlines shaved.) Modern vellum.
The collection comprises:
Ander Theil der Orientalischen Indien, von allen Völckern ... so von Portugal ausz, lengst dem Gestaden Aphrica, bisz in Ost Indien und zu dem Land China. Frankfurt: Eramus Kempfer, 1613. 37 (of 38) engraved plates, one double-page. (Lacking plate 4, plates 14 and 37 with long closed tear, whole in plate 16 repaired with loss.)
Dritter Theil Indiae Orientalis. Darinnen erstlich das ander Theil der Schifffahrten Johann Huygens von Lintschotten ausz Holland, so er in Orient gethan. Oppenheim: Hieronymus Galler, 1616. 8 (of 9) double-page or folding engraved maps and 2 engraved plates, 58 engraved plates with a further map of Nova Zembla on verso of plate 58. (Lacking map of the Ascension Islands, old worming and repairs to maps, one map stained, another detached.)
Vierdter Theil der Orientalischen Indien in welchen erstlich gehandelt wirt von allerley Thiern, Früchten, Obs und Bäumen ... Specereyen und Materialen, auch von Perlen und Edelgesteinen ... gennant werden. Oppenheim: Hieronymus Galler, 1617 [the title to the plates dated 1600]. 21 engraved plates. (Plate XI browned and laid down, inner gutter of last leaf strengthened.)
A collection of three of the rare 'small voyages' of the brothers Johann Theodor and Johan Israel de Bry. They were thirteen parts in total, most parts appearing in two editions over a period of 17 years (1598-1615). The whole collection was a highly ambitious project and part of the De Brys' wider interest in exploration and travel. The German edition appeared after the Latin but is considered the rarer of the two, and as the work became ever larger so production order and the distinctions between editions became somewhat blurred. Only one copy with all thirteen parts has appeared at auction in recent years, all other copies, like the present, containing only a number of the total voyages published. The three voyages offered here relate to the travels of Jan Huygen van Linschoten (1563-1611) who was noted for the travels he made in the East Indies, in particular to the Portuguese East Indies. Brunet I 1355-1357.
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