Viro eò in Coloniam Anno.
m.d.lxxxv. Dedvcti svnt Inventæ, Svmtvs Faciente
Dn. VValtero Raleigh Eqvestris Ordinis Viro Fodinar(
-v) Stanni Præfecto ex Avctoritate Serenissimæ
Reginæ Angliæ. Anglico scripta Sermone à Thoma Hariot, eivsdem Walteri
Domestico, in eam Coloniam Misso vt Regionis sitvm diligenter observaret Nvnc
avtem primvm Latio donata à C. C. A. Cvm Gratia et Privilegio Caes. Ma
tis Spec
li ad Qvadriennivm.
Francoforti ad Moenvm. Typis
Ioannis Wecheli, svmtibvs vero
Theodori de Bry Anno
ciɔ
iɔ
xc
. Venales Reperivntvr in Officina
Sigismvndi
Feirabendii
. [1590.]
64 leaves, italic letter, engraved title within
historiated pictorial border, engraved arms of Maximilian, King of Poland, on
the leaf of dedication, full-page plate representing Adam and Eve as
frontispiece to the plates, double-page engraved map of Virginia and 27
engraved plates.
John
Carter Brown 396.
Church 140.
Contains Thomas
Hariot’s report of the new found land of Virginia. This is the part that
Jefferson had been anxious to obtain.
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Part II
Brevis Narratio eorvm qvæ in Florida Americæ
Provīcia Gallis acciderunt, secunda in illam Nauigatione, duce Renato de
Laudōniere classis Præfecto: Anno
m
d lxiiii
. Qvæ est secvnda pars Americæ. Additæ figuræ & Incolarum
eicones ibidem ad vivīī expressæ: brevis item Declaratio Religionis, rituum,
vivendi(´q)ue ratione ipsorum Auctore Iacobo le Moÿne, cui cognomen de Morgues,
Laudōnierum in ea Navigatione sequnto. Nunc primùm Gallico sermone à Theodoro
de Bry Leodiense in lucem edita: latio verò donata a C. C. A. Cum gratia &
priuil. Caes. Maiest. ad quadriennium.
Francoforti ad Moenvm: Tÿpis
Ioānis
Wecheli
, Sumtibus vero
Theodori de Brÿ Anno
m d xci
. Venales reperiūtur
in officina
Sigismundi Feirabēdii. [1591.]
78 leaves, engraved title within an
historiated and pictorial border, engraved arms of the Duke of Saxony on the
leaf of dedication, followed by a leaf
Benevolo Lectori with a half-page plate
representing Noah sacrificing, engraved folded map of Florida, 42 plates, with
text in italic letter, versos blank.
John
Carter Brown 399.
Church 145.
Contains an account of the French Huguenot
expeditions to Florida under Jean Ribaut, René de Laudonnière, and Dominique de
Gourgues, in 1562, 1564, and 1567, respectively. The account of the expedition
under Laudonnière was written by Jacques de Moyne, an artist who accompanied
the expedition, and whose manuscripts, after his death in England, were sold by
his widow to De Bry, who published them for the first time.
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Part III
Americae Tertia Pars Memorabilē provinciæ
Brasiliæ Historiam continēs, germanico primùm sermone scriptam à Ioāne Stadio
Homburgensi Hesso, nunc autem latinitate donatam à Teucrio Annaeo Priuato
Colchanthe Po: & Med: Addita est Narratio profectionis Ioannis Lerij in
eamdem Provinciam, quā ille initio gallicè conscripsit, postea verò
Latinam
fecit. His accessit Descriptio Morum & Ferocitatis incolarum illius
Regionis atque Colloquium ipsorum idiomate con-
