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The Representations of the Overseas World in the De Bry Collection of Voyages, 1590-1634 (Library of the Written Word, the Handpress World)

By Michiel van Groesen

Book information

Publisher
Brill Academic Pub
Year
2008
ISBN
9004164499, 9789004164499
ISSN
1874-4834
LCC
Z6014.B9 G76 2008
Google Books ID
vhO6HgAACAAJ
Open Library ID
OL12799435M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
9 MB (8962333 bytes)
Series
Library of the Written Word / The Handpress World volume 2 / 2
Pages
580\580
Orientation
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2012-02-14 18:00:00

Description

This book deals with the "De Bry Collection of Voyages", one of the most monumental publications of Early Modern Europe. It analyzes the textual and iconographic changes the De Bry publishing family made to travel accounts describing Asia, Africa and the New World. It discusses this editorial strategy in the context of the publishing industry around 1600, investigating the biography of the De Brys, the publications of the Frankfurt firm, and the making of the collection, as well as its reception by Iberian inquisitors and seventeenth-century readers across the Old World. The book draws on a wide variety of primary sources, and is hence important for historians, book historians, and art historians interested in the development of Europe's overseas empires.

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