ADMIRANDA NARRATIO FIDA TAMEN, DE COMMODIS ET INCOLARVM RITIBVS VIRGINIAE" - A Brief and True Report - Part 1 Grands Voyages - Thomas Harriot / Theodore De Bry

"ADMIRANDA NARRATIO FIDA TAMEN, DE COMMODIS ET INCOLARVM RITIBVS VIRGINIAE"

-1st Latin Edition of De Bry's "Admiranda Narratio" / A Brief and True report

-Thomas Harriot

- 1590

- Complete text, plates and map

-Collation: TP, Dedication, 5-34, TP to plates, register, Plate of Adam and Eve, May Plates II-XXIII, Letter press title to picts, 5 pict plates with accompanying leaves, register and colophon (Complete)

- Map with restoration to around 1/3 of right hand side

- 27 (of 27) plates (22 of the Algonquian First Nation and 5 of Picts). Some plates from other copies.  Plate 1 restored and is image only with loss to top left hand corner. Modern colour to Adam and Eve Plate with some toning. Plate 5 tightly trimmed.

-Unbound

This famous work is a cornerstone of all collections on early Americana. The expedition was funded by Walter Raleigh and aimed to found a colony in the New World, the failed colony at Roanoke. Thomas Harriot's account was written to encourage support and to fund colonisation of the New World. It give a sympathetic (sometimes exaggerated) account of the fertility of the new world and the kind and healthy First Nations living there. Famously the the engravings are based on images by John White who drew some of the most important images of the Algonquian First Nations who resided in the Outer Banks.