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Frankfurt: Typis Johannis Wecheli, Sumtibus vero Johannis-Theodori de Bry, 1608. Folio. (13 1/4 x 9 inches). Collation: a4, b6, c4, d6, *2, A6, B-C8, D6, E8, F5. Title page to text with two pasted on paper panels bearing the title and publishing details in Latin, all within an engraved surround (as issued), letterpress title to plates, engraved arms on dedication leaf, blank D6. 1 double-page engraved map of Virginia [Burden 76, state 2], 1 engraved plate of Adam and Eve (first state with inscription "Iodocus a Winghe in / / Theodore de Bry fe", 27 engraved plates after John White (including 5 plates of Picts), with blank D6 but without the final blank F6 (as in Church), various small neat expert repairs, three leaves misbound. Expertly bound to style in 18th-century blue/green morocco, covers with gilt roll tool border, the flat spine divided into six compartments with gilt roll tools and fillets, lettered in the second compartment, the others tooled with alternating neo-classical tools,…
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[Hariot's Virginia] Admiranda narratio fida tamen, de commodis et incolarum ritibus Virginiae ... Anglico scripta sermone, a Thoma Hariot
by HARIOT, Thomas, [and John WHITE]. - Theodor DE BRY and Johann Theodor DE BRY
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ADMIRANDA NARRATIO FIDA TAMEN, DE COMMODIS ET INCOLARVM RITIBVS VIRGINIÆ...
by Hariot, Thomas, [and John White]: De Bry, Theodor and Johann Theodor
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Frankfurt: Johannes Wechel for Theodor De Bry, 1590.. 34,[6]pp., one plate and one double-page map followed by twenty-two plates (two of them folding, five of them with accompanying text leaves), [3]pp., five plates with accompanying text leaves, [7]pp. Folio. Engraved titlepage. Antique-style paneled dark brown calf, boards tooled in blind, front board gilt, raised bands. Minor worming at upper right center of text block with no loss of text, plate 12 trimmed close at top edge, repair to right edge of plate 13 with some loss of image, a few spots of foxing, and some mild tanning throughout. Ink inscription in a 17th-century hand on front blank, ink inscription in a contemporary hand on titlepage. Very good. A foundation work on the early exploration and delineation of America, describing and illustrating the first British colony to be established there. This volume is the first issued by the publisher, Theodor De Bry, in his extraordinary series, GRAND VOYAGES, describing the exploration of the New…
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