Admiranda narratio fida tamen, de commodis et incolarum ritibus Virginiae : nuper admodum ab Anglis, qui à Dn. Richardo Greinvile equestris ordinis viro eò in coloniam anno M.D.LXXXV. deducti sunt inuentae, sumtus faciente Dn. VValtero Raleigh equestris ordinis viro fodinaru[m] stanni praefecto ex auctoritate serenissimae reginae Angliae

Contributor:

Wechel, Johann, 1549-1593 (printer)

Name:

Harriot, Thomas, 1560-1621; Bry, Theodor de, 1528-1598; White, John, active 1585-1593; Clusius, Carolus, 1526-1609

Timespan:

Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775

Date:

1590

Language:

Latin

Provenance:

Dechert, Robert (donor)

Publisher:

Typis Ioannis Wecheli, sumtibus vero Theodor de Bry :Venales reperiuntur in officina Sigismundi Feirabendi

Subject:

Indians of North America -- Virginia; Indians of North America; History

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

books

Physical Description:

34 pages, 49 leaves (some folded) : illustrations, map; 34 cm (folio)

Geographic Subject:

Roanoke Colony; Virginia; Virginia -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- Sources; Virginia -- Description and travel

Related Place:

Germany -- Frankfurt am Main.

Rights:

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

The first part of a collection of voyages known also as de Bry's America, or Great and Small Voyages. The collection was published successively by Theodor de Bry and his sons Johann Theodor and Johann Israel, in two series: India Occidentalis and India Orientalis, consisting of 13 and 12 parts respectively. Each part with special t.p., pagination and register.; First edition, first issue.; Signatures : a⁴ b⁶ c⁴ d⁸(d7+chi²) A⁶ B-C⁸ D⁶ E⁸ F⁶ (D6 blank).; Engraved, historiated t.p.; Includes index.; Separate title page, sig. d4r: Viuae imagines et ritus incolarum eius prouinciae in America, quae Virginia appellata est ab Anglis ... omnia diligenter obseruata, et ad viuum expressa a Joanne With ... deinde in aes incisa, & primùm in lucem euulgata a Theodoro de Bry. Most of the plates which follow have been engraved by Bry and G. Veen, each numbered in arabic on the plates and in roman with the printed captions, nine of which face plates in a separate leaf.; Woodcut ornaments and initials.; In the first sequence, plates x, xi, xii are Church's 1st ed., 2d issue.; Translation into Latin by Carolus Clusius of: A brief and true report of the new found land of Virginia.; Related Work: Bry, Theodor de, 1528-1598. America. Pars 1.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Dechert Collection, Folio F229 .H27 1590

Collection:

English Renaissance in Context Collection (University of Pennsylvania)