Americae pars sexta, sive, Historiae ab Hieronymo Be[n]zono Mediolane[n]se scriptae, sectio tertia, res no[n] minus nobiles & admiratione plenas continens, quàm praecedentes duae : in hac enim reperies, qua ratione Hispani opule[n]tissimas illas Peruäni regni provincias occuparint, capto Rege Atabaliba, dei[n]de orta inter ipsos Hispanos in eo regno civilia bella : additus est brevis de Fortunatis insulis co[m]mentariolus in duo capita distinctus : item additiones ad singula capita historiam illustrantes : accessit Peruäni regni chorographica tabula

Bry, Theodor de, 1528-1598, Chauveton, Urbain, -approximately 1616, Benzoni, Girolamo, 1519-1572?, Hans and Hanni Kraus Sir Francis Drake Collection (Library of Congress), Jay I. Kislak Collection (Library of Congress), John Boyd Thacher Collection (Library of Congress), Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress), Jefferson Exhibit Collection (Library of Congress) · 1596 · [Frankfurt am Main : s.n.], 1596. · 41 pictures

This 1596 Frankfurt book is a Latin history of the Spanish conquest of Peru, compiled by Theodor de Bry from Girolamo Benzoni's account and Urbain Chauveton's notes for a European readership. Its engravings show dense crowds, armoured Spanish soldiers, and processions set against architecture and landscape, with plain line hatching that a designer could borrow for dense crowd compositions and tonal shading.

America · Canary islands · Conquest · Description and travel · Early accounts to 1600 · Early works to 1800 · Florida · Frankfurt am Main · Germany · History · Huguenot colony · Peru

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