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BRY (Theodor de, Johann Theodor de and Johann Israel de) : [THE GREAT AND SMALL VOYAGES], text in Latin, Frankfurt and Oppenheim, 1590-1624 THE GREAT VOYAGES (America), parts I-XII only bound in 2 vols., Latin editions, folio (340 x 235mm), with good margins (light browning and staining throughout not affecting maps, upper margins of first volume (parts I-VI) affected by damp) contemporary uniform blind-stamped vellum over wooden boards, covers with central panel of the Virgin and Child with elaborate blind stamped floral borders, spines in six sections, upper section lettered in ink, brass clasps (bindings rubbed, recent endpapers, clasps to the first volume detached) [cf Crawford 'Collations and Notes No 3 Grands et Petits Voyages of de Bry' pp 105-154] : the set comprising: I. [HARIOT'S VIRGINIA] Admiranda Narratio fida tamen, de commodis et incolarum ritibus Virginiae, 1590, FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, engraved title, dedicatory arms, double-page map of Virginia, Adam and Eve plate, 27 engraved plates, 2 folding, with blank leaf after plate 23 (title and a2-4 supplied from another copy, a second issue, upper corner of plate 18 neatly restored). Church 140 II. [LE MOYNE'S FLORIDA] Brevis narratio eorum quae in Florida Americae provincia Gallis acciderunt..auctore Jacobo le Moyne, 1591 [but 1609], SECOND EDITION, engraved title with a strong impression, engraved title to plates, dedicatory arms, folding map of Florida, engraved illustration to the Reader leaf, 42 engraved plates after Le Moyne. Church 146 III. [STADIUS'S BRAZIL] Americae tertia pars memorabile provinciae Brasiliae historiam contines...scriptum a Ioane Stadio, 1605, SECOND EDITION, engraved title, dedicatory arms, plate of arms with virtues, folding map of South America, 46 engraved illustrations including Adam and Eve illustration at p.144. Church 150/151 IV. [BENZONI'S HISTORY OF THE NEW WORLD] Americae pars quarta..scripta ab Hieronymo Bezono, 1594, FIRST EDITION, SECOND ISSUE, engraved title, engraved title to plates, plate of the arms with virtues, 2 illustrations of Colombus and 'Americae Retectio', double-page folding map of the West Indies, 24 plates, with blank leaves F6 and R6. Church 154 V. [BENZONI'S HISTORY CONTINUED] Americae pars quinta..secundae sectionis, 1595, FIRST EDITION, engraved title, engraved title to plates, portrait illustration of Columbus, folding map of New Spain, 22 plates, with blank leaves l3, l4 and F4. Church 156 VI. [BENZONI'S HISTORY CONCLUDED] Americae pars sexta, 1596, FIRST EDITION, engraved title, engraved title to plates without pasted label, folding map of the Americas, folding view of Cusco, 28 plates, (lacking final blank). Church 158 VII. [SCHIMIDEL'S BRAZIL AND PARAGUAY], Americae pars VII..descriptio praecipuarum quarundam Indiae regionum & insularum, 1599, FIRST EDITION, engraved title surround, engraved illustration, with blank H4 (upper margin of title shaved with slight loss). Church 161 VIII.[VOYAGES OF DRAKE, RALEIGH, HAWKINS AND CAVENDISH] Americae pars VIII continens primo, descriptionem trium itinerum, 1599, FIRST EDITION, SECOND ISSUE, title with engraved map vignette showing the route of Drake's circumnavigation, folding map of Guiana, engraved map vignettes on pp.78 and 3, 18 plates, 4 with numbers, with blank E4. Church 164 IX. [ACOSTA'S HISTORY OF THE NEW WORLD] Americae nona & postrema pars, 1602, FIRST EDITION, engraved title surround, two section title vignettes, dedicatory arms of Christian II, map of the straits of Magellan, 39 plates, plates 13 and 14 tipped in on later guards, with blank 2Y6 and 3d4 (section Relatio Historica [AA1-GG4] bound at the end of the work after the final plates) Church 168 X. [VOYAGES OF VESPUCCI, HAMOR'S VIRGINIA, SMITH'S DESCRIPTION OF NEW ENGLAND] Americae pars decima, 1619, FIRST ISSUE, title with engraved vignette, folding Mar di India chart (misplaced from part XI) bound in after the title, 12 plates, with blank leaves I4 and C4. Church 170 XI. [SC