Theodore de Bry Part VI

With 28 engraved plates, double-page view of Cusco, and double-page map of America

Theodore de Bry / Girolamo Benzoni
America Pars Sexta Sive Historiae Ab Hieronymo Benzono...

Quarto. pp.1-107 including engraved titlepage, double-page map of America, and double-page plan of Cusco. Engraved titlepage, pp.[i], ff.1-28 (blank versos) each with engraved plate illustration. Modern vellum binding, new endpapers. Repair to worm hole in margins, some strengthening of margins.

$ 22,000.

Part six of de Bry's "Grand Voyages" formed the third volume of the voyages of Benzoni, who was in the New world between 1541 and 1556. The text records the exploits of Francisco Pizarro and Atabaliba in Peru, among others. 

The volume's important map of America is derived principally from Petrus Plancius' world map of the same year (1596). Virginia and the South-East are shown quite accurately for the time, following the then- state of the art maps of White and Le Moyne. Full-length portraits of Columbus, Vespucci, Magellan, and Pizarro flank the corners.