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Illustrated by more than six hundred plates and comprising twentyseven volumes published over a span of nearly half a century by Theodor de Bry and his two sons, the Collectiones peregrinatiorum in Indiam orientalem et Indiam occidentalem (1590 – 1634) is a collection of European travels to the rest of the world that has offered a goldmine to scholars seeking visual material for the study of Europe’s attitudes toward foreign others. Only quite recently, however, has any study been devoted to the compilations’ complicated history as a book in and of itself. Michiel van Groesen’s 2008 volume, The Representations of the Overseas World in the De Bry Collection of Voyages, 1590 – 1634, is the first in English to undertake a discussion of the entire collection, focusing not only on the betterknown representations of travel to the Americas, but also on the voyages to the worlds of Africa, India, and the Far East.1 Usually De Bry’s work has been used to illustrate various specific points in individual scholar’s arguments about European understandings of the Native American other. In 1981, for example, Bernadette Bucher wrote a provocative structuralist argument about gender and cannibalism, Icon and Conquest: A Structural Analysis of the Illustrations of de Bry’s Great Voyages.” 2 One thinks of a number of studies which appeared around the quincentennial of Columbus’s “discovery” of America in 1992, such as Anthony Pagden’s The Fall of Natural Man (1982) or Stephen Greenblatt’s Marvelous Possessions (1991), both of which feature plates from De Bry’s America series for their covers. In editing this volume, I may well be making up for my own borrowing of De Bry plates for an essay on Edmund Spenser’s understanding of New World slavery.3 Unlike such appropriations of specific plates from the De Bry collection, this specialtopic issue of JMEMS explores two fundamental questions about the impact of the entire collection, which was divided into a series on voyages to the West, commonly refered to as America or India Occidentalis, and a series on voyages to the East commonly refered to as India Orientalis.4

Theodor De Bry's Voyages to the New and Old Worlds