De nieuwe en onbekende weereld: of Beschryving van America en 't Zuid-land, vervaetende d'Oorsprong der Americaenen en Zuid-landers, gedenkwaerdige togten derwaerds [...] verciert met Af-beeldsels na 't leven in America gemaekt, en beschreeven.

Folio: [6]-585-[27] pp.

Contemp. blindst. and blindruled vellum, spine with 5 raised bands, closing ties (corners bumped, front joint splitting). Very good copy.

First edition of this classic work on America by the Dutch theologian and historian who never set foot in the New World A. Montanus (1625-1683). Ill. with early strong impressions: an allegorical front. representing America, an engr. vign. on title, 7 full-page engr. portraits (the last Inca Emperor Athabaliba, F. Magellan, A. Vespucci, John Maurice of Nassau, Motecuhzoma II, Fr. Pizarro and Chr. Colombus), 1 engr. headpiece, 16 engr. fold. maps (Virginia, Florida, Bermuda, Central America, Acapulco, Yucatan, Peru, Brazil, Guyana, Venezuela, Chile, the Strait of Magellan), 32 engr. double-page views or plans (Mexico, Puerto Rico, a Spanish fort in Florida, Havana, Haiti, a Mexican idol, Lima, Cuzco, Olinda in Brazil, San Salvador de Bahia, the Amazon, Boavista, Suriname, etc.) and 69 engravings in-text incl. one of the first views of New York "Novum Amsterodamum" (p. 124) - founded by a group of Protestant Walloon families -, but depicting also the fauna and flora from the different regions (llamas, walruses, monkeys, armadillos, or ... the fight between an eagle and a unicorn), the native Indians and their customs, festivals, occupations, religious rites, ceremonies, sacrifices, games, cannibalism and battles. Printed in two col. Title in red & black.
Ref. Sabin 50086. - Tiele 763. - STCN.
Prov. Libr. stamp.