Andre Thevet's North America : A Sixteenth-Century View

Kingston and Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1986. Brand New in a Brand New dust jacket. PERFECT CONDITION. NO chips. NO tears. NO creases. NO fading. Bright, shiny, clean, square, and tight. Sharp corners. NO owner's name or bookplate. NOT a remainder. Fresh and crisp -- obviously never read. Subtitle: "An edition-translation, with notes and introduction by Roger Schlesinger and Arthur P. Stabler." Illustrated with 16 old prints and 18 maps. Frontispiece in full color. Footnotes. Bibliography. Index. Bound in the original black cloth, stamped in bright white on the spine. From the dust jacket: "Andre Thevet was one of the most widely travelled Frenchmen of the sixteenth century, visiting almost all of the main countries and regions of western Europe, the Near East, and Brazil. He served four consecutive French kings, beginning with Henry II, as Royal Cosmographer and 'garde des singularitez.' As cosmographer, he wrote three major books dealing with the discovery and subsequent exploration of the New World… Although the portions of these works devoted to South America have received considerable attention from scholars. Thevet's work on North America has remained inaccessible to students of the Age of Discovery. Professors Schlesinger and Stabler have now added Thevet to the list of enjoyable books by early European explorers of North America. Although credulous, egotistical, and something of a liar, Thevet provides a fascinating record of the period and an invaluable perspective on the events and opinions of his time. As the editors point out, much of his information may have come from conversations with Jacques Cartier, Sebastian Cabot, and the Sieur de Roberval. Much of Thevet's work on North America, including Mexico, is translated here into English for the first time… 'Le Grand Insulaire et pilotage d'André Thevet angoumoisin' is published in this volume both in the original French and in translation.". First Edition. Hardcover. New/New. 8vo. xli, 292pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.