In "THE WEST INDIES AND THE SPANISH MAIN BY JAMES RODWAY" (1896), there are multiple illustrations attributed to "from Gottfried's "Reisen," with no other information given. Who is Gottfried and where can I find more and better quality images of this?

by historyisaweapon
dauthie

Thought it would be easy to search for with Google Books, but no...

If I had seen an illustration, it would have been more or less obvious that Gottfried never traveled to the West Indies and that the book wouldn't be called "Reisen." And it's not. It's called, "Newe Welt Vnd Americanische Historien," from 1631 by Johann Ludwig Gottfried.

I only matched one illustration to the Rodway book, but I'm pretty sure this is it.

This site gives various download and web-viewing options: http://www.deutschestextarchiv.de/book/show/gottfried_historia_1631

Here is a PDF from the Toronto Public Library--have no idea if it is better or worse: http://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?Entt=RDMDC-37131055374813D&R=DC-37131055374813D