Engraved, historiated t.p. The plates, engraved by Bry, are introduced by an engraved, historiated t.p.: Indorum Floridam provinciam inhabitatium eiconis ..

First edition, first issue

Signatures: )(, a-d, A-H, I, K (K6 a blank)

Part 2 of T. de Bry's collection known as America gives an account of expeditions by French Huguenots to Florida under Jean Ribaut (1562), René de Laudonnière (1564), and Dominique de Gourgues (1567). Jacques Le Moyne is the author of the account of the Laudonnière expedition and the artist of the drawings. The authors of the other two accounts which follow the plates have not been identified. However, in America pars 3, p. 286, the translator C. Clusius (C.C.A.) suggests that N. Barré has contributed an account in pt. 2: "cuius Floridensis historia meminit", and in fact Dict. de biog. fran. confirms that Barré went on several expeditions to Florida including those of 1592 and 1594

Includes index and errata

Translation by Carolus Clusius of a French manuscript

Church, E. D. Discovery

Sabin

Brunet

Library's copy with: Amiranda narratio fida tamen , de commodis et incolarum ritibus Virginia / a Thoma Hariot, Francoforti ad Moenum, 1590, America, pt. 1, which appears as the final section as bound. Part 2 plates precede pt. 2 text as the initial item in the vol

Library's copy lacks plate 26. Sig K1 said to read K2, possibly corrected here; K2 pasted over )()(2; I4v has blank pasted over catchword Mendæ

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