Opening up new worlds : sixteenth-century travel literature and collections of voyages -- From goldsmiths to publishers : the transformation of the De Bry family -- A prosperous publishing house : the De Brys as booksellers in Frankfurt and Oppenheim -- The making of the collection of voyages -- Plants and animals : the natural world in the De Bry collection -- Native inhabitants : physical appearances and identities -- From gods to idols : the expansion of heathendom -- Different representations for different readerships : Christianity reflected -- The impact of censorship : the Index Librorum Expurgatorum and other indices -- Selling, purchasing, and borrowing : towards an understanding of readership -- The impact of the De Bry collection : travel literature and travel compendia in the seventeenth century
This volume deals with the De Bru collection of voyages. It analyses the textual and iconographic changes the De Bry publishing family made to travel accounts describing Asia, Africa and the New World. Also, it discusses this editorial strategy in the context of the publishing industry around 1600
