A briefe and true report of the new found land of Virginia
The 1590 Theodor de Bry Latin Edition
Limited Facsimile edition
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Word Count
52,000 words, Guess
Page Count
208 pages
Physical Format
Hardcover
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL11351988M
- ISBN-139780813926049
- ISBN-100813926041
- OCLC Control Number71004061
- Library of Congress Control Number2006025467
and 2 more
- Goodreads1986047
- LibraryThing2855563
Classifications
- LCCF229.H27 2007
Description
"For more than four hundred years, scholars from an array of disciplines have recognized Theodor de Bry's 1590 edition of Thomas Hariot's A briefe and true report of the new found land of Virginia as a book whose influence shaped contemporary European perceptions of North America as well as subsequent research on that period for centuries to come." "The book upon which the present volume is based is from the collections of the Library at the Mariners' Museum. It is extremely rare, containing hand-colored illustrations from the period, and is one of only three recorded copies with colored plates. This complete facsimile edition presents de Bry's exceptional engravings, based on John White's sixteenth-century water-colors, in their original hand-colored form." "As the first volume in de Bry's celebrated Grand Voyages, a series of publications chronicling many of the earliest expeditions to the Americas, this book, which incorporates a 1588 text by Thomas Hariot, was illustrated and published in four languages. It became for many Europeans their first glimpse of the American continent. Accompanying the Latin facsimile is an English text. The first section is modernized from earlier versions of the English, and the second part, which accompanies the plates, is newly translated from the original Latin. The book includes illuminating essays by Karen Ordahl Kupperman and Peter Stallybrass." "This facsimile edition will appeal to students and scholars in several fields of study, from American history and ethnography to fine arts and the history of the book, and will provide the reader with the best illustration of the New World as it was first presented to the Old."--BOOK JACKET.
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