This sheet featuring engravings on recto and verso was published in Johann Ludwig Gottfried's Newe Welt und Americanische Historien, a collection of voyages. Also known as Historia Antipodum, Gottfried's work is an abridgement of de Bry's voyages to America that incorporates much new material. Matthaus Merian, de Bry's son-in-law and publisher for Historia Antipodum, was granted access to de Bry's copper-engraved plates. The stunning engraving on verso does not appear in de Bry's Grands Voyages; it appears to be engraved from a description of Sir Walter Raleigh's expedition to find El Dorado, as detailed in The Discovery of Guiana (1595). The engraving shows Raleigh and his crew traveling down the Orinoco, where they witness a man overboard eaten by a lagarto (alligator), here styled as a serpent. On verso is an engraving that originally appeared as Plate 14 in Part VIII of de Bry's Grands Voyages. It shows the tree and cliff dwellings of the Indigenous people who live along the Orinoco, as well as the way that the Capuri and Macuri peoples honor their dead leaders by hanging their remains in their homes. On a sheet of German text measuring 8.8 x 14.1".

References: Van Groesen (De Bry's America) p. 322-23.

Condition: A

Nice impressions on a sheet with marginal toning.