Americae pars quarta, sive, Insignis & admiranda historia de reperta primum Occidentali India a
Image Count:
1
Subject (Geographic):
America --Discovery and exploration --Maps --Early works to 1800, America --Discovery and exploration --Spanish --Early works to 1800, America --Early accounts to 1600, and Latin America --Description and travel --Early works
Subject (Name):
Benzoni, Girolamo, b. 1519. Historia del Mondo Nuovo. Book 1. Latin, Bry, Theodor de, 1528-1598, Chauveton, Urbain, d. ca. 1616, and Feyerabend, Johann, 1550-1599
Collection Created:
Impressum Francofurti ad Moenum : Typis Ioannis Feyrabend : Impensis Theodori de Bry, anno MDLXXXXIIII [1594]
Americae tertia pars memorabile provinciae Brasiliae historiam contines, Germanico primum sermone
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
Lisbon
Subject (Geographic):
America --History --To 1810 and Brazil --Description and travel
Subject (Name):
Barre, Nicolas, Lery, Jean de, 1534-1611. Narratio profectionis, Staden, Hans, ca. 1525-ca. 1576. Americae tertia pars memorabile provinciae Brasiliae historiam contines, and Villegaignon, Nicolas Durand de, 1510-1571?
Subject (Topic):
Indians of South America --Brazil, Tupi language, and Tupinamba Indians
Collection Created:
[Francofvrti ad Moenvm, Impressum apvd I. Wechelvm, impensis T. de Bry] venales reperiutur in officina T. de Bry, 1592 [i.e. 1597?]
Autograph manuscript and print commonplace book. Collection of notes, engravings, and print cuttings concerning archery. Print items include announcements of meetings of the Robin Hood Society; playbills, reviews, and excerpts from stage adaptations of the legend of Robin Hood; announcements of equestrian archery shows and Robin Hood re-enactments. Also includes clippings of news items, short poems, an account of William Tell, an editorial on women archers and membership in the Toxopholitic Society, with a watercolor depicting a woman archer. Engravings of: the Liberty of Switzerland; the dress of royal archers (1795); men's fashion and archery costumes (in color, 1829).
Description:
Binding: Full calf, gilt borders and spine with blind-tooled flowers and gilt title: Archery Scrap Book., Bookplate: Joseph Haslewood., Inscription on front pastedown: J.W. Remington Wilson. Ent in Cat., Items dated in ink, from 1724-1829., Paper watermarks: 1799, 1813, 1818., and The book later belonged to John Matthew Gutch (1776-1861) who added to it; Gutch later used the book as the basis for an article in The Reliquary (XIX [1787-1789]: 157-160) where he wrote "Some of the following vestiges of English archery are contained in a commonplace book formerly belonging to Mr. Haslewood, collected by him as an appendix to a meditated edition of Robin Hood Ballads; others have been collected by the present writer" (The Reliquary XIX: 157); this description is copied on a tipped-in leaf in the volume. A few of the items mentioned by Gutch are no longer present in the volume.
Subject (Name):
Robin Hood Society (London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Archers--Women, Archery--Great Britain--History, and Robin Hood (Legendary character)--Drama
"Cum priuilegio Regio.", Bar scale given in "scala milliarum.", Hand colored borders., Ms. no. on recto and verso: 155. Stamp on vers, and Relief shown pictorially.
Gouwen, Gilliam van der, engraver Visscher, Nicolaes, 1649-1702, cartographer
Call Number:
36 1706
Container / Volume:
BRBL_00117
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
Maps, Atlases & Globes
Description:
Borders are hand colored; larger cites are illustrated and colored red., Decorative title cartouche., Relief shown pictorially., Shows towns, rivers, and cities., and With reference grid.
Subject (Geographic):
Rhineland-Palatinate (Germany)--Maps--Early works to 1800