_Elenchus: Historia Americæ sive Novus orbis_, 1634 (three issues). This is a table of the Contents to the edition which Merian was selling in 1634 under a collective title. The foregoing enumeration makes no recognition of the almost innumerable varieties caused by combination, which sometimes pass for new editions. Some of the editions of the same date are usually called “counterfeits;” and there are doubts, even, if some of those here named really deserve recognition as distinct editions.[202] While there is distinctive merit in De Bry’s collection, which caused it to have a due effect in its day on the progress of geographical knowledge,[203] it must be confessed that a certain meretricious reputation has become attached to the work as the test of a collector’s assiduity, and of his supply of money, quite disproportioned to the relative use of the collection in these days to a student. This artificial appreciation has no doubt been largely due to the engravings, which form so attractive a feature in the series, and which, while they in many cases are the honest rendering of genuine sketches, are certainly in not a few the merest fancy of some designer.[204] There are several publications of the De Brys sometimes found grouped with the _Voyages_ as a part, though not properly so, of the series. Such are Las Casas’ _Narratio regionum Indicarum_; the voyages of the “Silberne Welt,” by Arthus von Dantzig, and of Olivier van Noort;[205] the _Rerum et urbis Amstelodamensium historia_ of Pontanus, with its Dutch voyages to the north; and the _Navigations aux Indes par les Hollandois_.[206] Another of De Bry’s editors, Gasper Ens, published in 1680 his _West-unnd-Ost Indischer Lustgart_, which is a summary of the sources of American history.[207] There are various abridgments of De Bry. The earliest is Ziegler’s _America_, Frankfort, 1614,[208] which is made up from the first nine parts of the German _Grands Voyages_. The _Historia antipodum, oder Newe Welt_ (1631), is the first twelve parts condensed by Johann Ludwig Gottfried, otherwise known as Johann Phillippe Abelin, who was, in Merian’s day, a co-laborer on the _Voyages_. He uses a large number of the plates from the larger work.[209] The chief rival collection of De Bry is that of Hulsius, which is described elsewhere.[210] Collections now became numerous. Conrad Löw’s _Meer oder Seehanen Buch_ was published at Cologne in 1598.[211] The Dutch Collection of Voyages, issued by Cornelius Claesz, appeared in uniform style between 1598 and 1603, but it never had a collective title. It gives the voyages of Cavendish and Drake.[212]