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Representations of the Overseas World in the de Bry Collection of Voyages (1590-1634). (Record no. 83007)

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International Standard Book Number	9789047432630
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Cancelled/invalid ISBN	9789004164499
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System control number	(OCoLC)714884750
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Original cataloging agency	MiAaPQ
Language of cataloging	eng
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Transcribing agency	MiAaPQ
Modifying agency	MiAaPQ
050 #4 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER
Classification number	Z6014.B9 -- G76 2008eb
082 0# - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number	910.4
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name	van Groesen, Michiel.
245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title	Representations of the Overseas World in the de Bry Collection of Voyages (1590-1634).
250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT
Edition statement	1st ed.
264 #1 - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication, distribution, etc	Leiden :
Name of publisher, distributor, etc	BRILL,
Date of publication, distribution, etc	2008.
264 #4 - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Date of publication, distribution, etc	©2008.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent	1 online resource (584 pages)
336 ## - CONTENT TYPE
Content type term	text
Content type code	txt
Source	rdacontent
337 ## - MEDIA TYPE
Media type term	computer
Media type code	c
Source	rdamedia
338 ## - CARRIER TYPE
Carrier type term	online resource
Carrier type code	cr
Source	rdacarrier
490 1# - SERIES STATEMENT
Series statement	Library of the Written Word - the Handpress World Ser. ;
Volume number/sequential designation	v.2
505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note	Intro -- Acknowledgements -- List of illustrations -- Introduction -- The collection's historiography -- Trends and methods: distributing representations -- A new look at the collection -- Chapter One Opening up new worlds: sixteenth-century travel literature and collections of voyages -- 1.1 Europe's overseas expansion -- 1.2 Cosmographic literature -- 1.3 The fi rst collections of voyages -- 1.4 Ramusio's Navigationi et Viaggi -- 1.5 Hakluyt's Principall Navigations -- 1.6 The De Bry collection and its place within the genre -- Chapter Two From goldsmiths to publishers: The transformation of the De Bry family -- 2.1 The early years: Liège and Strasbourg (1528-1577) -- 2.2 From goldsmiths to engravers: Antwerp and London (1578-1588) -- 2.3 From engravers to publishers: The De Bry fi rm in Frankfurt ( 1588-1609) -- 2.4 Publishers among humanists -- Chapter Three A prosperous publishing house: The De Brys as booksellers in Frankfurt and Oppenheim -- 3.1 The commercial fortunes of the fi rm -- 3.2 Under the Elector's wings: The De Bry fi rm in Oppenheim ( 1609-1620) -- 3.3 The fi nal years (1621-1626) -- 3.4 Re-interpreting the De Brys: booksellers and Calvinists -- Chapter Four The making of the collection of voyages -- 4.1 The magnum opus of the offi cina -- 4.2 The collection conceived -- 4.3 The collection produced -- Chapter Five Plants and animals: The natural world in the De Bry collection -- 5.1 The representation of herbs, plants, and trees -- 5.2 The representation of animals -- 5.3 The wild species of the overseas world -- 5.4 Attempts at domestication -- 5.5 The case of the elephant -- 5.6 One step too far: man and animal intertwined -- Chapter Six Native inhabitants: physical appearances and identities -- 6.1 Eating and drinking in the overseas world -- 6.2 Cannibalism -- 6.3 Respecting the human body: mutilation and self-mutilation.
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Formatted contents note	6.4 Natives undressed: nakedness -- 6.5 Natives dressed up: New World feathers -- 6.6 Body language -- 6.7 Rites of passage -- Chapter Seven From gods to idols: The expansion of heathendom -- 7.1 Paganism in focus -- 7.2 Paganism compared -- 7.3 Paganism enhanced -- 7.4 The omnipresent devil -- 7.5 Targeting readerships -- Chapter Eight Different representations for different readerships: Christianity refl ected -- 8.1 Anti-Spanish tendencies: the Benzoni volumes -- 8.2 Christianity compared -- 8.3 Custom-made differences -- 8.4 The case of Jean de Léry's Histoire -- 8.5 Different accounts for different readerships -- 8.6 Christians versus non-Christians -- Chapter Nine The impact of censorship: the Index Librorum Expurgatorum and other indices -- 9.1 Catholic censorship in early modern Europe -- 9.2 The Iberian indices: prohibitions and expurgations -- 9.3 The collection censored -- 9.4 The offensive sections -- 9.5 Spanish versus Portuguese corrections -- 9.6 The impact of censorship: the case of De Léry -- 9.7 Enforcing the expurgations in Spain and Portugal -- Chapter Ten Selling, purchasing, and borrowing: towards an understanding of readership -- 10.1 From the presses to the bookstores: pricing the volumes -- 10.2 From bookstore to customer: the Offi cina Plantiniana -- 10.3 The De Bry collection in perspective -- 10.4 In private libraries across Europe I: men of letters -- 10.5 To possess or not to possess the voyages -- 10.6 In private libraries across Europe II: the nobility -- 10.7 An early modern coffee-table book? -- 10.8 In the collections of public libraries -- Chapter Eleven The impact of the De Bry collection: Travel literature and travel compendia in the seventeenth century -- 11.1 The collection abridged -- 11.2 The De Brys and Hulsius: from folio to quarto.
505 8# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note	11.3 Representations in reverse: the De Bry modifi cations in the Dutch Republic -- 11.4 The scope of the De Bry engravings in early modern Europe -- 11.5 Collections of voyages in the seventeenth century -- 11.6 Epilogue: an eighteenth-century revival -- Conclusion -- Appendices -- 1. Publications of the De Bry fi rm -- 2. The travel accounts used for the De Bry collection -- 3. The origins of the engravings in the De Bry collection -- Bibliography -- Index.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc	This volume 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 America.
588 ## - SOURCE OF DESCRIPTION NOTE
Source of description note	Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
590 ## - LOCAL NOTE (RLIN)
Local note	Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element	Bry, Theodor de, -- 1528-1598. -- Collection of voyages.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element	Publishers and publishing -- Netherlands -- History.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element	Travelers' writings, European.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element	Voyages and travels.
655 #4 - INDEX TERM--GENRE/FORM
Genre/form data or focus term	Electronic books.
700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name	Van Groesen, Michiel.
776 08 - ADDITIONAL PHYSICAL FORM ENTRY
Display text	Print version:
Main entry heading	van Groesen, Michiel
Title	Representations of the Overseas World in the de Bry Collection of Voyages (1590-1634)
Place, publisher, and date of publication	Leiden : BRILL,c2008
International Standard Book Number	9789004164499
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Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element	ProQuest (Firm)
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Uniform title	Library of the Written Word - the Handpress World Ser.
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