Die New Welt, der Landschaften und Insulen [...]

Bookseller Notes

The first German translation (first published in Latin in 1532) of this early collection of travel narratives, many of which relate to the New World. It contains the accounts which appear in the first edition, adding Peter Martyr's Decades and De Legatione Babylonica. Amongst others, the volume includes the first three voyages of Columbus, as well as accounts of Cabral, Marco Polo, and Vespucci, amongst others.Translated from the Latin and expanded by Michael Herr, from the 1532 Basel production entitled Novus Orbis. Sabin notes that this 1534 edition 'is less well known and much rarer than the original. The version is somewhat broad, and is distinguished by a certain originality in expression. Although it has no map, it has, on the other hand, the merit of being augmented in the text. It contains a full translation of Peter Martyr's Decades, folios 174-229, and also his three books De Legatione Babylonica, folios 235-248, both wanting in all the different Latin editions. Besides, it contains all the pieces of the first Latin edition of 1532, except Munster's Introductio in tabulam geograph, to which the map belongs, and would, therefore, have been superfluous in this edition.' 'An invaluable collection, which reflects credit upon John Huttich, who alone compiled it' (Harrisse).