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BRY, THEODOR DE and JOHANN THEODOR DE. [Great Voyages, in Latin]. Americae Pars VIII Americae Nona & postrema Pars. Frankfurt am Main: Matthaeus Becker 1599-1602. Parts 8-9 only (of 13), 2 vols., folio, non-uniform modern vellum . FIRST LATIN EDITIONS. Part VIII: [Voyages of Drake, Hawkins, Cavendish and Raleigh]. 332 x 227 mm. (13 1/16 x 9 in.), title map and map VI (Drake at Cape Verde) shaved at fore-edges, hole to b4 catching 5 letters, lacking final blank . Third issue, with signature AA2 correctly printed, plates VI, VII, VIII and IX with no engraved numbers, and plates XIII and XIV printed on the correct leaves, 2 parts plus plate section, separate signatures and pagination (plates numbered), this copy without the small maps on pp. 78 of the first pagination and p. 3 of the second pagination, title with engraved map of the world after Jodocus Hondius's broadside map of c. 1595 (Shirley 219), folding engraved map of Guiana, 18 half-page engraved plates, woodcut initials and head-pieces. Alden 599/21; Church 165; Sabin 8784, pp. 40-41. Part IX: [Acosta's History of the New World, Voyages of Sebalt de Weert and Olivier van Noort]. 339 x 235 mm. (13 3/8 x 9¼ in.), first three leaves with lower margins renewed, creasing to corners of first few leaves, title-leaf with small repairs at fore-edge, lacking blank leaf Yy6, browning to title and to text throughout, the map less severely browned, some foxing to plates mainly confined to captions . Three parts, plus two series of plates, separate signatures and pagination (plates separately numbered), separate title-pages, general title within engraved allegorical border, engraved coat-of-arms on dedication leaf, 2 titles with engraved vignettes including portrait of Van Noort incorporating a world map (Shirley 229), engraved map of the Straits of Magellan (on a guard), 39 half-page engravings numbered I-XXV and I-XIV, woodcut initials, blank leaf ddd4 present. Alden 602/1 and 602/72; Church 168; Sabin 8784, pp. 42-43. (2)