Americae pars sexta, sive, Historiae ab Hieronymo Be[n]zono Mediolane[n]se scriptae, sectio tertia
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1
Subject (Geographic):
America --Early accounts to 1600, Canary Islands --Description and travel --Early works to 1800, Florida --History --Huguenot colony, 1562-1565, Peru --History --Conquest, 1522-1548, and Western Hemisphere --Maps --
Subject (Name):
Benzoni, Girolamo, b. 1519. Historia del Mondo Nuovo. Book 3. Latin and Bry, Theodor de, 1528-1598
Americae pars quarta, sive, Insignis & admiranda historia de reperta primum Occidentali India a
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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
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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?]
A coat of arms on which is a large lion. In the upper left hand corner of the shield appears to be a small sword. At the top is the head of a boar. The motto above reads the motto Vi Et Virtute.
Subject (Name):
Baird, Andrew Wood, Jr.
Subject (Topic):
Animals, Armorial, Armorial bookplates, Lion, Physicians, Physicists, and Shields
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
A shield divided into two vertical halves. To the left, this has been further quartered—the first quarter contains a lion rampant with a star above against an argent background. This is at the forefront of a field Gules with three cushions surrounding it. The second and third quarters have Or-styled fields; the second featuring a right-handed forearm grasping a crosslet fitchee, while the third features a drakkar. The fourth quarter, against a field Vert, displays a single pike. To the right, against a field Sable, are three pike. At the helm, atop a torse, is a right-handed fist grasping a crosslet fitchee. Surrounding the shield is a ribbon-esque banner featuring the motto Nec Tempore Nec Fato.