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 inventae, sumtus faciente Dn. VValtero Raleigh equestris ordinis viro fodinaru[m] stanni praefecto ex auctoritate serenissimae Reginae Angliae. Anglico scripta sermone à Thoma Hariot eiusdem Walteri domestico, in eam coloniam misso ut regionis si tum diligenter observaret nunc autem primum Latio donata à C.C.A.
- Bry, Theodor de, 1528-1598.
- Date:
- Anno MDXC [1590]
- Books
About this work
Also known as
America. Pars 1. Latin
Publication/Creation
Francoforti ad Moenum : Typis Ioannis Wecheli, sumptibus vero Theodori de Bry, venales reperiuntur in officina Sigismundi Feierabendii, Anno MDXC [1590]
Physical description
34 pages, 22 unnumbered pages, 3 unnumbered pages, XXIII, V leaves of plates : illustrations, map ; folio (35 cm)
Notes
Plates I-XXIII have title: Vivae imagines et ritus incolarum eius provinciae in America, quae Virginia appelata est ... omnia diligenter observata, et ad viuum expressa a Joanne With ...; plates I-V (2nd sequence) have title: Pictorum, Britanniae partem olim incolentium aliquot icones; map on double leaf.
C.C.A = Carolo Clusio Atrebatensi, i.e. Charles de l'Ecluse.
This issue has no privilege.
Includes index.
Copy 1. Lacks plate III and description from second sequence. Binding: late 17th/18th century parchment. Title page pasted onto (third) front endpaper. Translation of title page in letterpress pasted opposite title page.
References note
Church, E.D. Discovery, 140
Church, E.D. Discovery, 141
Rosenwald 1309
Sabin, III, p. 24-27
Sowerby, E.M. Cat. of the lib. of Thomas Jefferson, 3973
Language note
Latin translation by Charles de L'Écluse of Thomas Hariot's Briefe and true report of the new found land of Virginia.
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Where to find it
Location Status Access Closed storesEPB/D/3058