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America: Von dreyen Schiffahrten, so die Frantzosen in Floridam (die gegen Nidergang gelegen) gethan: Eine vnter dem Hauptman[n] H. Laudonniere 1564. Die andere vnter H. Ribald 1565. Die dritte, vnter H. Guerguesio 1567. geschehen ; Mit Beschreibung vnd lebendiger Contrafactur, dieser Prouintz ...

Le Moyne de Morgues, Jacques, Bry, Theodor de [Hrsg.], Halen, Oseas [Übers.] · 1603 · 50 pictures

A 1603 German edition of Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues's account of three French voyages to Florida in the 1560s, engraved and published by Theodor de Bry and translated by Oseas Halen for a German-reading audience. Its pages carry captioned copperplate-style prints of Timucuan life, with German headings above dense Gothic-type text. The pictures show close, orderly groups of figures in landscape and ceremony, offering a designer clear models for crowded historical scenes, ethnographic costume, and captioned plate layouts.

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