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Admiranda narratio fida tamen, de commodis et incolarvm ritibvs Virginiæ : nvper admodvm ab Anglis, qvi à Dn. Richardo Greinvile equestris ordinis viro eò in coloniam anno M.D. LXXXV. dedvcti svnt inventæ, svmtus faciente Dn. VValtero Raleigh equestris ordinis viro fodinarṽ stanni præfecto ex avctoritate serenissimæ reginæ Angliæ / anglico scripta sermone à Thoma Hariot ... ; nvnc avtem primvm latio donata à C.C.A. ...
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks *Am 1590 Har Aa599 F 61a V.I
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Harriot, Thomas, 1560-1621 1740
- Standardized Title:
- Briefe and true report of the new found land of Virginia. Latin
- Language:
- Latin
- Subjects (All):
- Indians of North America--Virginia--83603.
- Indians of North America.
- Roanoke Colony--43941.
- Roanoke Colony.
- Virginia--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775--Sources.
- Virginia.
- Virginia--Description and travel--82280.
- Physical Description:
- 34, [21] p., [1], 23, 5 leaves of plates (3 folded) : ill. (engravings), map ; 34 cm. (fol.)
- Place of Publication:
- Francoforti ad Moenum : Typis Ioannis Wecheli, svmtibvs vero Theodori de Bry, ; venales reperivntur in officina Sigismvndi Feirabendii, MDXC [1590]
- Notes:
- Engraved, historiated t.p.
- The collection begun by T. de Bry with this title is known as: America, or as: Great voyages.
- First edition, first issue.
- Translation by Carolus Clusius of: A brief and true report of the new found land of Virginia.
- Includes index.
- Separate title page, sig. d4r: Vivae imagines et ritvs incolarvm eivs provinciae in America, qvae Virginia appellata est ab Anglis ... omnia diligenter observata, et ad viuum expressa a Joanne With ... deinde in æs incisa, & primùm in lucem euulgata a Theodoro de Bry. Most of the plates which follow have been engraved by Bry and G. Veen, each numbered in arabic on the plates and in roman with the printed captions, nine of which face plates on a separate leaf.
- Woodcut ornaments and initials.
- Signatures: a[superscript 4]b[superscript 6]c-d[superscript 4](n[superscript 4])A[superscript 6]B[superscript 8]D[superscript 6](D6 blank)E[superscript 8](F)[superscript 6].
- Local Notes:
- (Ed. 1, plates, except XI and XII, 2nd impression).
- (Double-page map).
- 27 pl.
- Retrospective conversion record: RLIN.
- HSP in LCP.
- Recon note: signature note : use?
- Cited in:
- Church, E. D. Discovery, 140.
- Sabin III,p. 24-27.
- Brunet I, columns 1315-1318.
- Sabin, 8784
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