Americae das fünffte Buch, vol schöner vnerhörter Historien, auss dem andern Theil Ioannis Benzonis gezogen: von der Spanier Wüten, beyd wider ... die Nigriten, vnnd auch die ... Indianer: wie die Spanier von den frantzösischen Meerräubern ... angriffen vnd geplündert worden ... wie sie erstlich das Neuwe Spanien erfunden haben ... Sampt ... Erklärung der Historien ... Auch einer Landtafel, dess Neuwen Spanien

Bry, Theodor de, 1528-1598, editor, Edwardes, Henry Hope, 1829-1900, former owner, Kempfer, Erasmus, printer, Benzoni, Girolamo, 1519-1572?, Hans and Hanni Kraus Sir Francis Drake Collection (Library of Congress), Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) · 1613 · [Franckfurt am Mayn : Gedruckt durch E. Kempffer, 1613] · 58 pictures

This is a 1613 German-language history of the Americas printed at Frankfurt am Main by Erasmus Kempffer, compiled by Theodor de Bry from Girolamo Benzoni's account for a readership interested in Spanish conquest and Indigenous peoples. The pages are text-dense letterpress with ornamental initials, decorative headpieces and a framed title block, plus a few plain woodcut-style vignettes; a designer might take from them the period typography, strapwork borders and dense justified columns of black type.

America · Early accounts to 1600 · Frankfurt am Main · Germany · History · Latin America · To 1600

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