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“America Funfter Thiel"

Benzoni's account of the Americas including a description of Havana and Crocodiles!

- Part 5 of De Bry's Grands Voyages

- Benzoni's description of the Americas

- German 1st Edition - Theodore De Bry - 1595

- Large Quarto - 32x22cm - Disbound

- TP, 5-115, 21 (of 22) plates (missing plate 8)

- Missing plate 8, the portrait of Columbus (pp3-4) and the Map

-Text is rare 1st edition German

-Good condition overall - foxing and tears to some plates. Disbound.

The work describes Benzoni's 15 years on the isthmus of America, in Panama and Nicaragua. Benzoni, an Italian, acted as a mediator between different nations. The work describes life of the first nations of Central America. 

Benzoni wrote at a time when the Spanish treatment of the Indians was a concern, and described the cruelty of the Spanish towards the Indians and African slaves - the famous "Black legend".

The work is beautifully illustrated with engravings of the Native Americans and Spanish conquistadors. It including images of Nicaraguans dancing, how they held their markets, and made war, and of slaves being harshly treated.

Engravings depict France’s failed efforts to colonise the Southern Americas.

A landmark in the history of ethnographic literature and colonial illustration, this is the first German edition of Girolamo Benzoni’s famous account of his fifteen years in the New World, as masterfully adapted and profusely illustrated by Theodor de Bry. This edition presents a rare early European perspective sympathetic to Indigenous peoples — a striking counter-narrative to Spanish imperial triumphalism.

	•	Benzoni, an Italian traveller, journeyed through the Isthmus of Panama, Nicaragua, and Central America between c. 1541 and 1556.
	•	Unlike official chroniclers, Benzoni had no allegiance to the Spanish Crown, enabling him to offer sharp critiques of Spanish colonial violence — including the enslavement, torture, and execution of both Indigenous peoples and Africans.

His observations cover:
	•	Indigenous religion, warfare, social structures, and rituals,
	•	Encounters with Spanish soldiers, French colonists, and African slaves,
	•	His own near-death encounter with a crocodile 
	•	Early accounts of European inter-imperial tensions in the Americas.


A highlight of the text is Benzoni’s account of being attacked by a crocodile (or caiman) while near a riverbank in Nicaragua. He describes the beast lunging from the water, jaws open, with only quick thinking and the intervention of locals saving his life.

This edition is essential for collections in:

	•	One of the earliest ethnographic accounts of Central America written by a European,
	•	A foundational document of the De Bry publishing enterprise,
	•	Richly illustrated, readable, and politically resonant — the perfect nexus of travel, propaganda, and art.








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