Digitized Volumes of DeBry's Grand Voyages
The Library of Congress holds nearly 100 copies of de Bry's Grands Voyages; America. They vary in arrangement, volumes and in some cases language of the edition. For the ease of searching, we are presenting digitized editions of the various works compiled by de Bry from the Kraus collection in a single numbered volume sequence. Copy numbers are used to identify a particular title when the Library of Congress' holdings vary from copy to copy.
The German edition of Grands Voyages is bound in two volumes with numerous engraved maps and plates. Contemporary marginalia in German exists throughout the volumes. The bindings are of blind-tooled pigskin over boards, with the date 1659 and the initials, 'H.V.G.' stamped on the front covers. It should be noted that copies in contemporary binding, as this one, invariably are of differing states and edition, and are plus and/or minus various leaves. The present copy is in an unusually well preserved binding; the impressions of the plates are generally clear and dark.
The Latin edition of Grands Voyages is bound in one volume with numerous engraved maps and plates. Blank lower margin of title cut off. Folio. Contemporary vellum, black line borders, fleurons. Stamped ex libris on titles and last page.
Volume | Constituent work | Author | Language | Item access | Detail |
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America, part 1 | Wunderbarliche, doch warhafftige Erklärung, von der Gelegenheit vnd Sitten der Wilden in Virginia... | Hariot, Thomas | German | View item | 3rd edition. Complete with engraved title; double folio map of Virginia; Adam and Eve plate; and 22 (numbered engraved plates (2 of them from the 2nd German edition). 2 additional plates from the first edition in Latin, 1590. |
America, part 2 | Der ander Theil, der newlich erfundenen Landschafft Americae, von dreyen Schiffahrten, so die Frantzosen in Floridam ... | Laudonniere, Rene Goulene De. | German | View item | 2nd edition. Complete with engraved title; letterpress title to plates; engraved double folio map of Florida; engraving of Noah's sacrigice; and 43 (numbered) engravings in the text. |
America, part 3 | Dritte Buch Americae, darinn Brasilia durch Johann Staden auss eigener Erfahrung in teutsch beschrieben. | Staden, Johann and Jean De Lery | German | View item | 2nd edition. With engraved title and 30 engravings in the texxt (several repeats, as indicated in Church Catalogue). (Engraved map of South America and signatures A-D, preliminary to "Schiffahrt in Brasilien," including 2nd engraved titel, not present). |
America, part 4 | Das vierdte Buch von der Neuwen Welt. Oder Neuwe vnd gründtliche Historien, von dem Nidergängischen Indien, so von Christophoro Columbo im Jar 1492 erstlich erfunden. Durch Hieronymum Bentzo ... | Benzoni, Girolamo | German | View item | 2nd edition. With engraved title of the 2nd edition in Latin. (should have title in German); 2nd engraved title (variant state); engraving "America Retectio"; and 24 (numbered) engraved plates (nos. I-XV from the first Germanedition; XVI-XXIV from the 2nd German edition). Engraved map of the West Indies; and signature "A" (4 leaves) of Benzoni's history not present (replaced by 3 leaves with repeats of plates I-III). |
America, part 5 | Americae das fünffte Buch, vol schöner vnerhörter Historien, auss dem andern Theil Ioannis Benzonis gezogen: von der Spanier Wüten, beyd wider ... | Benzoni, Girolamo | German | View item | 2nd edition. With engraved title of the 2nd edition in Latin (should have title in German); letterpress title to plates, dated 1613; engraved double folio map of Mexico and 22 (numbered) engraved plates (nos. XVI and XIX from 1st German edition; plates VIII-XI not present and replaced by plates VIII-XI from Part IV). |
America, part 6 | Das sechste Theil Americae oder Der Historien Hieron. Benzo das dritte Buch. Darinnen erzehlet wirt, wie die Spanier die ... | Benzoni, Girolamo | German | View item | Complete with engraved title; letterpress title to plates, dated 1618; engraved double folio map of the western hemisphere; double folio plan of Cuzco; coat-of-arms of Maurice of Hesse; and 28 (numbered) engraved plates. |
Americae pars sexta. Sive, Historiae ab Hieronymo Be[n]zono scriptae, sectio tertia ... | Latin | View item | 84 leaves, the last blank. With a folding map of the western hemisphere; double-page view of Cuzco; and 28 engravings. | ||
America, part 7 | Das VII Theil America. Warhafftige vnd liebliche Beschreibung etlicher fürnemmen indianischen Landschafften vnd Insulen, die ... | Schmidl, Ulrich. (Ulricus Faber) | German | View item | 2nd edition. here called 3rd. Complete with engraved title |
Americae pars VII. Verissima et ivcvndissima descriptio praecipvarvm qvarvndam Indiae regionum & insularum, quae ... | Latin | View item | 32 leaves, last blank. With one engraving. | ||
America, part 8 | Americae achter Theil, in welchem erstlich beschrieben wirt das ... | (Drake, Sir Franics).-Sir Walter Ralegh, and Frank Pretty. | German | View item | 1st edition. Complete with 3 titles with titel vignettes, dated 1599 amd 1600; letterpress title to plates; engraved double folio map of Guiana; and 21 engraved plates (numbered I-VI; I-XI). |
Americae pars VIII. Continens primo, descriptionem trivm itinervm Francisci Draken, qvi peragrato primvm vniverso terrarvm orbe, postea cum ... | Latin | View item | 110 leaves, the last blank. With a map on the title; folding map of northestern South America, and 18 engravings. | ||
America, part 8; appendix | Additamentvm; das ist, Zuthuung zweyer fürnemmer Reysen ... | German | View item | ||
America, part 9 | Neundter vnd letzter Theil Americae, darin[n] gehandelt wird, von Gelegenheit der Elementen, Natur ... | Acosta, Joseph De, S. J. | German | View item | 1st edition. With engraved title and 2 printed titles with title engravings, dated 1601 and 1602; letterpress title to plates; and 39 engraved plates (numbered I-XXV; I-XIV). Engraved map of the Strait of Magellan and folio "(?)" (dedication to the Landgrave of Hesse) not present. |
Americae nona & postrema pars. Qva de ratione elementorvm: de Novi Orbis natvra: de hvivs incolarvm svperstitiosis cultibus: déq; forma politiae ac reipubl. ipsorum ... | Latin | View item | 306 leaves including two blanks. With an engraved map of the Strait of Magellan, and 39 engravings. This part includes Acosta's Historia...de las Indias, and the de Weert and van Noort voyages to the East Indies. | ||
America, part 9; appendix | Additamentum, oder Anhang dess neundten Theils Americae, welches ist ein warhafftige vnnd eygentliche Beschreibung der langwirigen ... | German | View item | ||
America, part 10 | Zehender Theil Americae darinnen zubefinden: Erstlich, Zwo Schiffarten Herrn Americi Vesputii vnter König Ferninando in Castilien vollbracht. Zum andern: Ein gründlicher Bericht von dem jetzigen Zustand der Landschafft Virginien ... | Vespucci, Amerigo and John Smith | German | View item | Complete with title engraving of two ships under full sail; letterpress title to plates; and 12 (numbered) engraved plates. Blank leaf "C" present, as in Crawford copy. Additional engraved map of the two hemispheres (not called for in either Church or Crawford copies), bound in before letterpress title to plates. |
America, part 11 | Historische Beschreibung, der wunderbarlichen Reyse, welche von einem Holländer, Willhelm Schouten ... | Schouten, Willem.-J. Le Marie,-J. Van Spilberghen. | German | View item | Complete with 2 titles with large engraved vignettes (the first repeated in plate I); letterpress title to plates; 3 engraved maps (2 of them double folio); and 29 engraved plages. Blank leaf "E" present, as in Crawford copy. |
America, part 11; appendix | Appendix dess eilfften Theils Americae, das ist: Warhafftige Beschreibung der wunderbahren Schifffahrt, so Georgius von Spielbergen ... | German | View item | ||
America, part 12 | Zwölffter Theil der Newen Welt, das ist: Gründliche volkommene Entdeckung aller der west indianischen Landschafften, Insuln vnd Königreichen ... | Herrera, Antonio De. | German | View item | Sole edition. With engraved title, and 14 engraved maps (misbound with Part VII). Engraved double folio map of western hemisphere and plan of Cuzco (repeats from Part VI) not present here. |