Graphic sketches from old and authentic works, illustrating the costume, habits and character of the aborigines of America : together with rare and curious fragments relating to the discovery and settlement of the country.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bry, Theodor de, 1528-1598.

Series:

Sabin Americana : History of the Americas, 1500-1926.

Sabin Americana : History of the Americas, 1500-1926

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians of North America--Virginia.

Indians of North America.

Indians of North America--Pictorial works.

Indians of North America--Social life and customs.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (15 p., [23] leaves, 24 leaves of plates ) chiefly ill. ;

Other Title:

Graphic sketches from old and authentic works, illustrating the costume, habits and character of the aborigines of America

Place of Publication:

New York : J. and H.G. Langley, 1841.

Notes:

Plates accompanied by leaves with descriptive letterpress.

The plates are figures in outline from de Bry's engravings, reduced.

Added t.p. (leaf following p. 15): Portraits to the life and manners of the inhabitants, of that province in America, called Virginia, in charge of the honourable gentleman, Sir Walter Raleigh, knight and steward of the stannaries in Cornwall and Exeter, by licence and authority granted in the year 1585, for the government of the new provinces, by the Most Serene Queen of England Elizabeth, the whole carefully executed and drawn to the life, by John Wyth, sent forth to that province in the years 1585 to 1588, afterwards engraved on copper, and first published by Theofore De Bry, 1590.

No more published.

Reproduction of original from The American Antiquarian Society.

Sabin no. 103394.

Contains:

White, John, fl. 1585-1593. Portraits to the life and manners of the inhabitants, of that province in America, called Virginia.

OCLC:

11