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Book/Printed Material Wunderbarliche, doch warhafftige Erklärung, von der Gelegenheit vnd Sitten der Wilden in Virginia ... Wahrhafftige Contrafacturen vnd Gebräuch der Innwohnern der jenigen Landtschafft in America / Etliche Contrafeyt der Völcker, genannt Picten, die vorzeiten einen Kreyss in Engelland ingehabt haben

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Title

  • Wunderbarliche, doch warhafftige Erklärung, von der Gelegenheit vnd Sitten der Wilden in Virginia ...

Other Title

  • Wahrhafftige Contrafacturen vnd Gebräuch der Innwohnern der jenigen Landtschafft in America
  • Etliche Contrafeyt der Völcker, genannt Picten, die vorzeiten einen Kreyss in Engelland ingehabt haben

Names

  • Bry, Theodor de, 1528-1598, editor.
  • White, John, active 1585-1593.
  • P., Christoph, active 1600, translator.
  • Galler, Hieronymus, printer.
  • Harriot, Thomas, 1560-1621.
  • Edwardes, Henry Hope, 1829-1900, former owner.
  • Hans and Hanni Kraus Sir Francis Drake Collection (Library of Congress)
  • Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • Oppenheim : Gedruckt bey H. Gallern, in Vorlegung J. T. de Bry, 1620.

Headings

  • -  North Carolina--Description and travel--Early works to 1800
  • -  Virginia--Description and travel--Early works to 1800
  • -  Indians of North America--North Carolina
  • -  Roanoke Colony--Early works to 1800
  • -  Harriot, Thomas,--1560-1621
  • -  Germany--Oppenheim

Notes

  • -  Illustrations 1-23 have title: Wahrhafftige Contrafacturen vnd Gebräuch der Innwohnern der jenigen Landtschafft in America, welche Virginia genennet worden ... Alles auff das allerfleissigst erkündigt, vnd ... abcontrafeyt von Johann With ... Illus. 24-28 have title: Etliche Contrafeyt der Völcker, genannt Picten, die vorzeiten einen Kreyss in Engelland ingehabt haben.
  • -  Third edition. Cf. Church.
  • -  Church, E.D. Catalogue of books relating to the discovery and early history of North and South America, 178
  • -  Kraus, H.P. Sir Francis Drake, no. 32
  • -  Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 1309, Part I, note
  • -  National union catalog, pre-1956 imprints, NB 0901309 (vol. 81, p. 298)
  • -  Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
  • -  LC copy: With illustration of Adam and Eve from 2d ed. (Church, 177) and all the illustrations, except one, numbered on the copper.
  • -  LC copy has bookplate of Sir Henry Hope Edwardes.
  • -  LAC ecr 2019-07-03 update (4 cards)
  • -  LAC ddw 2022-09-14 update (1 card)
  • -  NUC pre-1956 includes copy and imprint information for this title as dashed on entry on LCCN 2-25208rev. LAC ddw 2022-09-14
  • -  Check general shelflist for location of all copies. Check each volume for bound with content titles. Make or correct linking of titles for each volume in online catalog as necessary. LAC ddw 2022-09-14

Medium

  • 31, [67] p. : 28 illus., fold. map. ; 35 cm.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • G159 .B8 pt. 1b E141
  • G159 .B8 pt. 1b Copy 2 35. cm. Rosenwald collection. With illustration of Adam and Eve and illustrations numbered xi and xiii from 2nd edition, and all the illustrations, except one, numbered on the copper. Bookplate of John Jay Paul. With the editor's [America. pt. 2. German. Franckfort 1603]; [America. pt. 3. German. Frankfurt] 1593 [i.e. ca. 1610]; [America. pt. 4. German. Franckfurt, 1613]; and [America. pt. 5. German. Frankckfurt, 1613] Bound together subsequent to publication.
  • G159 .B8 pt. 1b Copy 3 35 cm. With all illustrations, except one, numbered on the copper. Illustrations numbered III and V are interchanged; illustration numb. XX is mounted on blank space; illustrations numbered XI and XIII as in copy 1; illustration of Adam and Eve as described in Church, 178.
  • G159 .B8 pt. 1b Copy 4 37 cm. With illustration of Adam and Eve and illustrations numbered xi and xiii from 2nd edition, and all the illustrations, except one, numbered on the copper. 2 additional plates from 1st Latin edition, 1590, inserted. Gift of Hans P. and Hanni Kraus. With the editor's [America. pt. 2. German. Franckfort, 1603]; [America. pt. 3. German. Frankfurt] 1593 [i.e. ca. 1610]; [America. pt. 4. German. Franckfurt, 1613]; [America. pt. 5. German. Franckfurt, 1613]; [America. pt. 6. German. Oppenheim] 1619. Bound together subsequent to publication.

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Library of Congress Control Number

  • 81452495

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Chicago citation style:

White, John, Active, Hieronymus Galler, Thomas Harriot, Henry Hope Edwardes, Hans And Hanni Kraus Sir Francis Drake Collection, and Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection. Wunderbarliche, doch warhafftige Erklärung, von der Gelegenheit vnd Sitten der Wilden in Virginia. editeds by Bry, Theodor De, Itor, translateds by P., Christoph, Active 1600Lator Oppenheim: Gedruckt bey H. Gallern, in Vorlegung J. T. de Bry, 1620. Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/81452495/.

APA citation style:

White, J., Galler, H., Harriot, T., Edwardes, H. H., Hans And Hanni Kraus Sir Francis Drake Collection & Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, Bry, T. D., ed. (1620) Wunderbarliche, doch warhafftige Erklärung, von der Gelegenheit vnd Sitten der Wilden in Virginia. P, C., trans Oppenheim: Gedruckt bey H. Gallern, in Vorlegung J. T. de Bry. [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/81452495/.

MLA citation style:

White, John, Active, et al. Wunderbarliche, doch warhafftige Erklärung, von der Gelegenheit vnd Sitten der Wilden in Virginia. ed by Bry, Theodor De, Itor, trans by P., Christoph, Active 1600Lator Oppenheim: Gedruckt bey H. Gallern, in Vorlegung J. T. de Bry, 1620. Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/81452495/>.