Title Information
Title
Admiranda narratio fida tamen, de commodis et incolarum ritibus Virginiae, nuper admodum ab Anglis, qui à Dn. Richardo Greinvile equestris ordinis viro eò in coloniam anno M.D.LXXXV
Subtitle
Deducti sunt inuentae, sumtus faciente Dn. VValtero Raleigh equestris ordinis viro fodinaru[m] stanni praefecto ex auctoritate serenissimae Reginae Angliae
Title Information: Alternative
Title
Admiranda narratio fida tamen, de commodis et incolarvm ritibvs Virginiae, nuper admodvm ab Anglis, qvi à Dn. Richardo Greinvile equestris ordinis viro eò in coloniam anno M.D.LXXXV
Title Information: uniform (nameTitleGroup="1")
Title
Briefe and true report of the new found land of Virginia. Latin
Name: Personal (usage="primary", nameTitleGroup="1")
Name Part
Harriot, Thomas
Name Part: Date
1560-1621
Name: Personal
Name Part
Clusius, Carolus
Name Part: Date
1526-1609
Name: Personal
Name Part
White, John
Name Part: Date
active 1585-1593
Name: Personal
Name Part
Bry, Theodor de
Name Part: Date
1528-1598
Type of Resource
text
Origin Information
Place
Place Term: Code (MARC Country Code)
gw
Place
Place Term: Text
Francoforti ad Moenum
Publisher
Typis Ioannis Wecheli, sumptibus vero Theodori de Bry, anno M D XC. Venales reperiuntur in officina Sigismundi Feirabendii
Date Issued
[1590, i.e. 1608]
Date Issued (encoding="marc")
1608
edition
[Second edition]
Issuance
monographic
Language
Language Term: Code (ISO639-2B)
lat
Language (objectPart="translation")
Language Term: Code (ISO639-2B)
eng
Physical Description
Form (marcform)
print
Extent
34, [36] p., [31] leaves of plates (2 double, 1 double folded) : ill., map ; 35 cm. (fol.)
Note: Statement of Responsibility (altRepGroup="00")
Anglico scripta sermone à Thoma Hariot eiusdem Walteri domestico, in eam coloniam misso vt regionis situm diligenter obseruaret. Nunc autem primum Latio donata à C.C.A.. Cum gratia et priuilegio Caes. Matis. Specli. ad quadrennium.
Note
Actual date of publication supplied by Church.
Note
First edition of part one printed in Frankfurt am Main, 1590.
Note
Constitutes the third issue of the first part of the second Latin edition of Theodor de Bry's Great voyages, printed in fourteen parts, in Latin, German, French, and English, in Frankfurt am Main, Oppenheim, and Hanau from 1590-1644, and the Elenchus, an outline of the thirteen Latin parts, published by Matthias Merian in Frankfurt am Main in 1634.
Note
This work had been identified as the first part, third issue of the second Latin edition of the Great voyages by Church.
Note
This issue there is no imprint at the foot of the engraved title page. The following plates were printed separately and laid down: 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10,11, 12, 14, 15, 16, 21, and 23. Plate 16 is not laid down. This issue is also without errata and the tail piece at the end of the index is the same as that opposite the plate of picts, No. 5. Cf. Church.
Note
The C.C.A., on the title-page, are the initials of Carolus Clusius Artebatensis, i.e. Charles de L'Écluse, the celebrated botanist. Cf. Church.
Note
Latin translation, by Charles de l'Écluse, of: A briefe and true report of the new found land of Virginia / by Thomas Harriot, first printed London, 1588.
Note
"Vivae imagines et ritvs incolarvm eivs provinciae in America, qvae Virginia appellata est ab Anglis, ivssv magnifici viri D. Waltheri Raleig, equitis & praefecti fodinarum stanni in Cornuwallia & Exonia, profectis anno M D XXCV. ad obseruandas nouas prouincias, permissu & authoritate serenissimae Reginae Angliae Elizabethae. Omnia diligenter observata, et ad viuum expressa à Joanne With, eius rei gratia in illam prouinciam annis 1585. & 1588. misso: deinde in aes incisa, & primùm in lusem euulgata a Theodoro de Bry", p. [1-4], 2nd count, has divisional title page.
Note
"Pictorvm, Britanniae partem olim incolentivm aliqvot icones", p. [19], 2nd count, has divisional title page.
Note
Signatures: a⁴ (a1 verso blank) b⁶ c⁴ d⁸ (d4 verso, d6 recto, d7 verso blank) A⁶ B-C⁸ D⁶ (D5 missigned D4) (D6 blank) E⁸ F⁶ (F6 blank)
Note
Includes index on p. [31-33], 2nd count.
Note
Fully engraved and illustrated title page; engraved head and tail pieces; initials.
Note
Contains 31 leaves of plates which are numbered I-XXIII following p. [1-4], 2nd count, one of which is a double map of Virginia with the names of the native tribes and their locations, one double and another double folded plates, the rest of which are printed on recto only with descriptive letterpress text, and which are signed [d4-d8] and A⁶ B-C⁸ D⁶ E⁸ F⁶; plates numbered I-V follow p. [19-20], 2nd count, and contain illustrations of the mysterious people known as the Picts, which are printed on recto only, and are signed E⁸ and F1-2.
Note
The plate of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, engraved by Theodor de Bry, is considered by Church to be not only leaf d6 but also plate [I] following "Vivae imagines et ritvs incolarvm eivs provinciae in America", p. [1-4], 2nd count; here it is not counted as a plate. The double map of Virginia, listed as plate I "Tabula generalis totius regionis situm ob oculos ponens", bound between leaves d7 and d8 should be listed as plate [I] in Church.
Subject
Geographic Code (MARC Geographic Area Code)
n-us-va
Geographic Code (MARC Geographic Area Code)
n-us-nc
Subject (LCSH)
Name: Personal
Name Part: Terms of Address
Sir
Name Part
Raleigh, Walter
Name Part: Date
1552?-1618
Subject (LCSH)
Topic
Indians of North America
Geographic
Virginia
Subject (LCSH)
Topic
Indians of North America
Geographic
Virginia
Genre
Pictorial works
Subject (LCSH)
Topic
Indians of North America
Geographic
North Carolina
Subject (LCSH)
Topic
Indians of North America
Geographic
North Carolina
Genre
Pictorial works
Subject (LCSH)
Topic
Picts
Genre
Pictorial works
Subject (LCSH)
Geographic
Virginia
Topic
Description and travel
Subject (LCSH)
Geographic
Virginia
Topic
History
Temporal
Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
Subject (LCSH)
Geographic
Roanoke Colony
Subject (LCSH)
Geographic
Roanoke Island (N.C.)
Subject
Topic
Imprint 1608.
Subject
hierarchicalGeographic
country
Germany
city
Frankfurt am Main
Related Item: Is Referenced By
Title Information
Title
Church, E.D. Discovery,
Part
Part Detail: Part
Part Number
144
Related Item: Is Referenced By
Title Information
Title
JCB Lib. cat., pre-1675,
Part
Part Detail: Part
Part Number
I: p. 384
Related Item: Is Referenced By
Title Information
Title
Alden, J.E. European Americana,
Part
Part Detail: Part
Part Number
608/78
Related Item: series
Title Information
Title
Great voyages ; pt. 1
Identifier: oclc
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