Book/Printed Material A briefe and true report of the new found land of Virginia: of the commodities and of the nature and manners of the naturall inhabitants
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Title
- A briefe and true report of the new found land of Virginia: of the commodities and of the nature and manners of the naturall inhabitants
Names
- Harriot, Thomas, 1560-1621
- Bry, Theodor de, 1528-1598, engraver
- Wechel, Johann, -1593, printer
- Sotheby, Charles William Hamilton, 1820-1871, former owner
- Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
Created / Published
- Francoforti ad Moenvm, Typis I. Wecheli, svmtibvs vero T. de Bry, 1590.
Headings
- - Roanoke Colony
- - Virginia--Description and travel--Early works to 1800
- - Virginia--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775--Sources
- - Indians of North America--Virginia--Early works to 1800
- - Germany--Frankfurt am Main
Notes
- - English edition of pt. 1 of de Bry's collection "America."
- - Also published by Richard Hakluyt as part of his Principall navigations, voiages, and discoveries of the English nation.
- - De Bry, a skillful engraver, in 1587 traveled to England, where he met Richard Hakluyt. Hakluyt gave him a copy of Hariot's Virginia, and in 1590 De Bry published the Hariot work in Latin, German, French, and English as part I of the Great Voyages. ... the succeeding parts were published only in Latin and German. Cf. Library of Congress. The Lessing J. Rosenwald collection: a catalog of the gifts of Lessing J. Rosenwald to the Library of Congress, 1943 to 1975, p. 236.
- - Plates 1-23 have title: The trve pictvres and fashions of the people in that parte of America novv called Virginia, discowred by Englishmen sent thither in the years of Our Lorde 1585 ... Translated out of Latin into English by Richard Hacklvit. Diligentlye collected and draowne by Ihon White ... now cutt in copper and first published by Theodore de Bry ... The last 5 plates have title: Som pictvre, of the Pictes which in the olde tyme dyd habite, one part of the great Bretainne ...
- - Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 723
- - Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress website.
- - LC copy has bookplate of C. W. H. Sotheby.
- - Form AACR2: vj34
- - LAC rwp 2019-05-23 no edits (2 cards)
- - LAC ddw 2022-07-12 update (1 card)
Medium
- 33 p. 28 plates, map. 33 cm.
Call Number/Physical Location
- F229 .H27 1590
Digital Id
Library of Congress Control Number
- 48032384
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- image
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Contributor
- Bry, Theodor De
- Harriot, Thomas
- Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
- Sotheby, Charles William Hamilton
- Wechel, Johann