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Admiranda narratio, fida tamen, de commodis et incolarvm ritibvs Virginiae ... Anglico scripta sermone à Thoma Hariot ... / nvnc avtem primvm Latio donata à C.C.A.

Author/creator Bry, Theodor de, 1528-1598
Format Book and Print
Publication InfoFrancoforti ad Moenvm : Typis Ioannis Wecheli, svmtibvs vero Theodori de Bry ... venales reperivntvr in officina Sigismvndi Feierabendii, 1590 [i.e., 1608]
Description34 pages, 91 unnumbered pages, 28 unnumbered leaves of plates : folded map ; 34 cm
Supplemental Content Internet Archive
Subject(s)
Other author/creatorWhite, John, active 1585-1593 illustrator.
Other author/creatorWechel, Johann, 1549-1593 printer.
Other author/creatorBry, Theodor de, 1528-1598 publisher.
Other author/creatorClusius, Carolus, 1526-1609 translator.
Other author/creatorCheshire, James W., former owner.
Other author/creatorTranslation of: Harriot, Thomas, 1560-1621. Briefe and true report of the new found land of Virginia.
Uniform titleAmerica. Pars 1. Latin
Local noteJoyner- Library's copy is of mixed but primarily 2nd ed. T.p. is of 1st ed. (Church 140). Dedication page (p. 3) has line break between "regi" and "Poloniae;" p. 7 has headpiece with grotesque mask; t.p. of plates (p. [35]) has ornament with grotesque mask; no errata on verso of F5; F6 is blank as in 2nd ed., 2nd or 3rd issue (Church 143 or 144). Plates of the Picts I-V are of the 1st ed. Library's copy imperfect: lacking d5-8, A, B, C, D, which includes plates 1-23 and the folded map. F3-F6 bound before E-F3. (Leaf F3 occurs twice.) Handsewn between thick card covers with marbled paper endsheets. Illegible ms. note across top of t.p., [dated 1634?]. T.p. stamped "James W. Cheshire, Hillsboro, N.C."
General noteText consists of a Latin translation of Hariot's A briefe and true report of the new found land of Virginnia, London, 1588. Cf. Church, 135.
General noteTranslated by Carolus Clusius Atrebatensis [i.e., C.C.A]. Cf. Church, 140.
General noteDate in roman numerals.
General noteIllus. 1-23 have title: Vivæ imagines et ritvs incolarvm eivs provinciæ in America, quæ Virginia appelata est ... Omnia diligenter observata, et ad viuum expressa a Joanne With [i.e., White] ... Illus. 24-28 (numbered 1-5, 2nd series) have title: Pictorvm, Britanniae partem olim incolentivm aliqvot icones.
General noteCopy is of mixed but primarily 2nd ed. T.p. is of 1st ed. (Church 140). Dedication page (p. 3) has line break between "regi" and "Poloniae;" p. 7 has headpiece with grotesque mask; t.p. of plates (p. [35]) has ornament with grotesque mask; no errata on verso of F5; F6 is blank as in 2nd ed., 2nd or 3rd issue (Church 143 or 144). Plates of the Picts I-V are of the 1st ed.
General noteSignatures: a⁴, b⁶, c⁴, d⁸, A⁶, B-C⁸, D⁶, E⁸, F⁶ (D⁶ and F⁶ are blank).
References Church, E.D. Discovery, 140, 143, 144
Acquisitions source Joyner- Gift of Ben + Snow Roberts, 7/2012

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Joyner NC Rare - Oversize F229 .B78 1608 ✔ Available Request Material