This engraving is Plate IV from the second German edition of Part II of de Bry's Grands Voyages (Brevis Narratio Eorum quae in Florida Americae Provincia Gallis Acciderunt). It is based on Le Moyne's famous drawings of the French colonial attempts in southeastern Florida in the 1560s. It depicts the expedition of Captain Jean Ribault and his men discovering six rivers off the coast of present-day Georgia. The rivers are identified as Charenta (Sapelo Sound), Garumna (St. Catherines Sound), Gironda (Ossabaw Sound), Bellum (Wassaw Sound), and Magnum (Tybee Roads); the sixth river, Loire (Altahama Sound) is not named in the engraved image. The engraving is embellished with a sea monster at bottom right. On a sheet of German text measuring 9.7 x 12.4".

References: Church #180; Van Groesen (De Bry's America) p. 101.

Condition: B+

A nice impression on a sheet that has been professionally remargined at right, with negligible loss of image.