A briefe and true report of the new found land of Virginia : of the commodities and of the nature and manners of the naturall inhabitants. Discouered by the English colony there seated by Sir Richard Greinuile Knight in the yeere 1585. Which remained vnder the gouernement of twelue monethes; at the speciall charge and direction of the Honourable Sir Walter Raleigh Knight lord Warden of the stanneries who therein hath beene fauoured and authorised by her Maiestie and her letters patents

1590 Pamphlet written by Thomas Hariot (servant to Sir Walter Raleigh) entitled "A briefe and true report of the new found land of Virginia." Included was information regarding the commodities, and the nature and manners of the "natural inhabitants." There are numerous illustrat...

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OCLC:183273195
Main Author: Harriot, Thomas, 1560-1621
Other Authors: Hakluyt, Richard, 1552?-1616, Bry, Theodor de, 1528-1598
Language:English
Latin
Published: Francoforti ad Moenvm : Typis Ioannis Wecheli, svmtibvs vero Theodori de Bry, [1590]
Subjects:
1600-1775
Indians of North America > Virginia > Early works to 1800.
Indians of North America > Virginia > Pictorial works.
Indians of North America.
Travel.
Roanoke Colony > Early works to 1800.
Virginia > Description and travel > Early works to 1800.
Virginia > History > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 > Sources.
Virginia > History > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 > Early works to 1800.
United States > Roanoke Colony.
Virginia.
Electronic books.
Online Resource:LLMC Digital
Related Items:Print version: Briefe and true report of the new found land of Virginia.
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Summary:1590 Pamphlet written by Thomas Hariot (servant to Sir Walter Raleigh) entitled "A briefe and true report of the new found land of Virginia." Included was information regarding the commodities, and the nature and manners of the "natural inhabitants." There are numerous illustrations, with a separate table of contents, as well as another table of contents regarding the various topics and subjects in the pamphlet. Printed at Franckfort in 1590.
Item Description:Dedication "to the right worthy and honovrable, Sir VValter Ralegh," signed and dated: from Franckfort the first of Apprill 1590 ... Theodorvs de Bry.
Plates 1-23 have title: The trve pictvres and fashions of the people in that parte of America novv called Virginia, discowred by Englismen sent thither in the years of our Lorde 1585 ... Translated out of Latin into English by Richard Hacklvit. Diligentlye collected and draowne by Ihon White ... now cutt in copper and first published by Theodore de Bry att his wone chardges.
The last 5 plates have title: Som pictvre, of the Pictes which in the olde tyme dyd habite one part of the great Bretainne.
Colophon on final page: At Franckfort, inprinted by Iohn Wechel, at Theodore de Bry, owne coast and chardges. M D XC.
De Bry, a skillful engraver, in 1587 traveled to England, where he met Richard Hakluyt. Hakluyt gave him a copy of Hariot's Virginia, and in 1590 De Bry published the Hariot work in Latin, German, French, and English as part I of the Great Voyages. ... the succeeding parts were published only in Latin and German. See Library of Congress. The Lessing J. Rosenwald collection: a catalog of the gifts of Lessing J. Rosenwald to the Library of Congress, 1943 to 1975, page 236.
English edition of pt. 1 of de Bry's collection "America."
Also published by Richard Hakluyt as part of his Principall navigations, voiages, and discoveries of the English nation.
Includes index.
Physical Description:1 online resource (33 pages, 49 unnumbered leaves) : illustrations, map, 28 plates.

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