Newe Welt vnd americanische Historien : inhaltende warhafftige vnd volkommene Beschreibungen aller west-indianischen Landschafften, Insulen, Königreichen und Provintzien, Seecusten ... in diesem halben Theil des Erdkreyses ; dessgleichen gründlicher Bericht von der Innwohner Beschaffenheit, Sitten ... vnd Gebräuchen. ... / alles auss verscheidenen west-indianischen Historien-Schreibern und mancherley Sprachen ... zusammen getragen, extrahiert, in ein richtig Ordnung der Materien und Zeit, und in diese käuffliche Form gebracht durch Johann Ludwig Gottfriedt. ; mit zugehörigen Landtafeln, Contrafacturen und ... Kupfferstücken ... geziert und verlegt, durch Mattheum Merian.

Author/creator Gottfried, Johann Ludwig
Other author Abelin, Johann Philipp.
Other author Bry, Johann Theodor de, 1561-1623?
Format Electronic
Publication InfoFrankfurt : Bey denen Merianischen Erben, 1655.
Description661 pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 6 unnumbered leaves of plates (5 folded) : illustrations, 4 maps, 2 plans ; 35 cm
Supplemental ContentGale, Sabin Americana: History of the Americas, 1500-1926
Subjects

Portion of title Neue Welt und americanische Historien
Local noteLibrary's copy imperfect: p. 355-358 repeated and p. 359-360 misnumbered; stain on p. 313 obscures text.
General noteAdded, engr. t. p.: Historia Antipodum oder Newe Welt.
General noteOriginally published: Frankfurt, 1631.
General noteAbridgement of pts. 1-12 of Johann Theodor de Bry's German edition of the "Great voyages" as well as a reissue of pt. 14 of that work.
General noteThere is another issue with p. [3-6], 1st count, from a different setting of type. That issue has "Flecken vnd Wohnplätzen" in title, and "vnerhörter" (instead of "unerhörter") in line 17 of title.
General noteAuthorship has been erroneously ascribed to Johann Philipp Abelin (cf. Der königlich schwedische in Teutschland geführte Krieg / F. Gallati. Zurich, 1902).
General note"Jean-Philippe Abelin published this work under the assumed name of Jean-Louis Gottfriedt. It contains a resumé of the histories of Acosta, Oviedo, Peter Martyr, Herrera, Laet &c. An account of 33 voyages to America, from Columbus to Spilbergen and Schouten; notices of the expeditions of Lemaire and Peter Heyn, the conquests of Brazil by the Dutch, and descriptions of Greenland and Spitzbergen."--Cf. Sabin.
General noteReproduction of original from Huntington Library.
General noteSabin no. 50.
Citation/References note RLIN, CTRG01-B3237
Reproduction noteElectronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thomson Gale, 2005. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.
Other titleHistoria Antipodum.
Other titleNewe Welt.