Part 2 of De Bry's Grands Voyages - Brevis Narratio - Jacques Le Moyne - De Bry Florida - Complete set of 42 plates and Title page - German 1st Edition - 1591

First Edition German plates of the most important early illustrated work on Florida

“DER ANDER THEYL/ der Newlich erfundenen Landt- schafft Americae, Von dreyen Schiffahrten/ so die Frantzosen in Floridam (die gegen Nidergang gelegen) gethan. Eine vnter dem Hauptmann H. Laudonniere, Anno 1564. Die ander vnter H. Ribald 1565. Die dritte/ vnter H. Guorguesio 1567. ges- chehen. Francofortiad Moenvm Typis Ioanis Wecheli, Stantibus vero Theodori de Bry Anno MDXCI. Venales reperiutur in officina Sigismundi Feirabedii”

-Jacques le Moyne

-Published by Theodore De Bry

-1591 (1st German Edition)

-TP to plates, Index to plates, Plates 1-42 (of 42), xxv, index

-Bound in modern quarter calf binding

-Good Condition overall but toning and old repairs to pages. Plates are trimmed sometimes affecting the title (plates 16 -20 particularly).

-Incomplete. Missing the TP, introduction and main text. Complete from plates onwards. No map.

-This celebrated work by Jacques Le Moyne, and illustrated by De Bry, is the most important early work on the History of Florida. It describes the first French settlements in Florida and is beautifully illustrated with plates of the Timucua First Nation.

This part gives an account of the early expeditions of the French to Florida under Jean Ribaut (1562), Rene de Laudoniere (1564) and Dominique de Gourgues (1567). The account of the Laudonniere expedition was written by Jacques le Moyne (de Morgues), an artist who accompanied the expedition. He escaped massacre by the Spaniards at Fort Caroline and went to England, with the drawings he had made, where he died. After his death his manuscripts and drawings were sold by his widow to De Bry who published them in this volume. It is one of the earliest descriptions of Florida and the first to be clearly illustrated and to describe the local peoples.

Although the work incomplete, this is a full set of German plates which are less common than the Latin editions

£6250

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