Bry, Theodor de, 1528-1598 Hariot, Thomas, 1560-1621. Admiranda narratio White, John, fl. 1585-1593
Published / Created:
1590
Call Number:
E159 +B79 1-5
Image Count:
4
Resource Type:
Books, Journals & Pamphlets
Alternative Title:
Admiranda narratio ... de commodis ... Virginiæ and America. pars 1
Description:
First ed., 1st issue -- cf. Church. Cat. of books relating to ... America, 140; with privilege printed on t.-p.; illus. nos. 3-4, 7-8, 10-12 as in 1st ed., 2d issue (Church 141)., Illus. 1-23 have title: Vivæ imagines et ritvs incolarvm eivs proviniæ in America, qvæ Virginia appelata est ... Omnia diligenter observata, et ad viuum expressa a Joanne With ... Illus. 24-28 have title: Pictorvm, Britanniae partem olim incolentivum aliqvot icones., and With this is bound the editor's [America. pts. 2-5. Latin] Francoforti, 1590-95. Imperfect: signature D6, blank, wanting.
Publisher:
Typis I. Wecheli, svmtibvs T. de Bry, venales reperivntvr in officina S. Feierabendii,
Subject (Geographic):
Roanoke Colony (N.C.), Virginia--Description and travel, and Virginia--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America--Virginia --Pictorial works --Early works to 1800
Regnum Congo hoc est vera descriptio regni Africani : quod tam ab incolis quam Lusitanis Congus
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
Books, Journals & Pamphlets
Subject (Geographic):
Africa --Description and travel --Early works to 1800, Africa --Discovery and exploration --Early works to 1800, Kongo Kingdom --Description and travel --Early works to 1800, and Kongo Kingdom --Discovery and exploration --Early works to 1800
Blank versos not digitized., Preface by Adrianus Damman and Abraham de Bruyn, followed by a list of plates (to plate 52 only), and preceded by three poems (two by Damman, and one by George Buchanan)., Signatures: [a]1(engraved t.-p.)*-**4., The plates are numbered as follows: 1-8 (1 dated 1575), 8A-8D, 9-10, 1-E-10F, 11-16, 16G-16K, 17-18, 18L-180, 19-22, 22P-22R, 23-27, 27S-27K, 28-29, 29Y, 30, 30Z, 31-54., and The t.-p. is followed by 9 unnumbered plates, apparently inserted, viz.: (1) Neptune and Earth, with two equine heads; (2) full-page coat of arms; (3-9) armorial shields, without arms, (5) lettered "Excudebat Abraham D. Bruyn 1578".
Engraved t.-p., Map (16 x 24 cm, on sheet 27 x 27 cm, folded to 27 x 18 cm), bound in following leaf 26, with initials "F. P." in lower right-hand corner., Map: Orbis terrae compendiosa descriptio, ex ea, qùam ex Magna Vniuersali Mercatoris Rumoldus Mercator fieri curabat inhác cómodioré formá a Hieron: Porro redact. n.d. Scale not given., and World map engraved by Girolamo Porro after Gerhard Mercator.
Publisher:
s.n.,
Subject (Name):
Porro, Girolamo, 1520-1604 engraver and Quad, Matthias, 1557-1613
Subject (Topic):
Explorers--Portraits and Kings and rulers--Portraits
Imperfect: plates 4, 27 and 37 wanting; 2 maps (Nova tabula insularum Iavae, Sumatrae, Borneonis ... and Ailhae cidade de Goa ...) wanting. The other map and plate issued with this part, and 4 maps issued with part 3, are bound preceeding this part in the following order: [1] A cidade de Angra ... (40 x 55 cm. on sheet 41 x 57 cm, folded to 30 x 15); [2] Descriptio Hydrograhica accomodata ad Battavorum navagatione in Javam isulam Indiae Orientalis... (34 x 65 cm, on sheet 36 x 65 cm, folded to 29 x 18 cm); [3] Insula D. Helenae ... (22 x 28 cm, on sheet 30 x 31); [4] Munken so in den Orientalischen Indien ... (14 x 18 cm, on sheet 19 x 30 cm) bound with top of sheet at gutter; [5] Vera effigies et delineatio Insulae Ascenstio ... (15 x 22 cm, on sheet 19 x 30 cm) bound with top of sheet at gutter; [6] Insulae et arcis Mocambique ...(21 x 27 cm, on sheet 31 x 30 cm). Some text has been censored in black ink. No. 2 of 3 titles bound together.
Publisher:
Ex officina Wolfgangi Richteri,
Subject (Geographic):
Indonesia--Description and travel--Early works to 1800.
Subject (Name):
Linschoten, Jan Huygen van, 1563-1611. Navigatio in Orientem.
II. pars Indiae Orientalis : in qua Iohan. Hugonis Lintscotani nauigatio in Orientem, item regna
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
Books, Journals & Pamphlets
Subject (Geographic):
India --Description and travel --Early works to 1800 and India --Discovery and exploration --Early works to 1800
Subject (Name):
Bry, Johann Israel de, d. 1611, publisher, Bry, Johann Theodor de, 1561-1623?, publisher, Linschoten, Jan Huygen van, 1563-1611. Navigatio in Orientem, and Richter, Wolfgang, d. 1626, printer
Subject (Topic):
Voyages and travels --Early works to 1800
Collection Created:
Francfordii : Ex officina Wolfgangi Richteri, MDXCIX [1599]
Added illustrated title page., Imperfect: large stain of ink along top; small tears with no loss of text., and In ink after author's name: not then 20 years old.
Subject (Geographic):
Italy --Description and travel --Early works to 1800, Rome --Antiquities --Early works to 1800, and Venice (Italy)
Engraved title page, title within architectural border., In ink on title page at bottom left: m., In ink on title page in upper right corner: m / L., Manuscript note pinned to last leaf., On verso of title page: DK 15.15., Slip giving aphorism CXV which was omitted in text, inserted between e4 adn f1., and Supplement to Leovitius, C. Brevis et perspicva ... Londini, 1558, and bound preceding it.
Publisher:
[Excudebat Henricus Suttonus impensis Nicolai England]