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Book/Printed Material Merveillevx et estrange rapport, tovtesfois fidele, des commoditez qvi trovvent en Virginia, des facons des natvrels habitans d'icelle, laqvelle a esté novvellement descovverte par les Anglis qve ... Richard Greinvile ... u mena en colonie lan 1585 ... Merveilleux et estrange rapport, toutesfois fidele, des commoditez qui trouvent en Virginia

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  • Merveillevx et estrange rapport, tovtesfois fidele, des commoditez qvi trovvent en Virginia, des facons des natvrels habitans d'icelle, laqvelle a esté novvellement descovverte par les Anglis qve ... Richard Greinvile ... u mena en colonie lan 1585 ...

Other Title

  • Merveilleux et estrange rapport, toutesfois fidele, des commoditez qui trouvent en Virginia

Names

  • Harriot, Thomas, 1560-1621.
  • White, John, active 1585-1593.
  • Bry, Theodor de, 1528-1598, engraver.
  • Wechel, Johann, -1593, printer.
  • Feyerabend, Sigmund, 1528-1590, publisher.
  • Bry, Theodor de, 1528-1598.
  • Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • Francoforti ad Moenum, Typis I. Wecheli, svmtibvs vero T. de Bry, venales reperivntvr in officina S. Feirabendii, 1590.

Headings

  • -  Roanoke Colony--Early works to 1800
  • -  Roanoke Island (N.C.)--Early works to 1800
  • -  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

  • -  French edition of pt. 1 of de Bry's collection "America" (also known as "Great Voyages").
  • -  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: Les vrays povtraicts, et facons de vivre dv pevple d'vne partie de l'Ameriqve novvellement appellee Virginia ... Recveillis ... et tirez sur le naturel, par Jan With ... puis taillez en cuiure & nouuellement mis en lumiere par Theodore de Bry ...
  • -  The last five plates have half title: Avcvuns povrtraicts des Pictes anciennement habitans vne partie de la grand Bretaigne.
  • -  Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 724
  • -  LC copy has label on t.p.: Auec grace & priuil. de la Maiest. Imper. pour quatre ans. Duplicate of t.p., without label, bound in. Bookplate of Huth Collection.
  • -  LAC rwp 2019-05-23 no edits (2 cards)

Medium

  • 33 p., 28 plates : fold. map. ; 34 cm.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • F229 .H2733

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Library of Congress Control Number

  • 50042611

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  • pdf
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Chicago citation style:

Harriot, Thomas, John White, Theodor De Bry, Johann Wechel, Sigmund Feyerabend, Theodor De Bry, and Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection. Merveillevx et estrange rapport, tovtesfois fidele, des commoditez qvi trovvent en Virginia, des facons des natvrels habitans d'icelle, laqvelle a esté novvellement descovverte par les Anglis qve ... Richard Greinvile ... u mena en colonie lan. Francoforti ad Moenum, Typis I. Wecheli, svmtibvs vero T. de Bry, venales reperivntvr in officina S. Feirabendii, 1590. Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/50042611/.

APA citation style:

Harriot, T., White, J., Bry, T. D., Wechel, J., Feyerabend, S., Bry, T. D. & Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection. (1590) Merveillevx et estrange rapport, tovtesfois fidele, des commoditez qvi trovvent en Virginia, des facons des natvrels habitans d'icelle, laqvelle a esté novvellement descovverte par les Anglis qve ... Richard Greinvile ... u mena en colonie lan. Francoforti ad Moenum, Typis I. Wecheli, svmtibvs vero T. de Bry, venales reperivntvr in officina S. Feirabendii. [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/50042611/.

MLA citation style:

Harriot, Thomas, et al. Merveillevx et estrange rapport, tovtesfois fidele, des commoditez qvi trovvent en Virginia, des facons des natvrels habitans d'icelle, laqvelle a esté novvellement descovverte par les Anglis qve ... Richard Greinvile ... u mena en colonie lan. Francoforti ad Moenum, Typis I. Wecheli, svmtibvs vero T. de Bry, venales reperivntvr in officina S. Feirabendii, 1590. Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/50042611/>.