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BRY, Johann Theodor de (1561-1623), publisher. -- HARIOT, Thomas (1560-1621). Admiranda narration fida tamen, de commodis et incolarum ritibus Virginiae, nuper admodum ab Anglis . Frankfurt: de Bry, 1590 [but circa 1608].
BRY, Johann Theodor de (1561-1623), publisher. -- HARIOT, Thomas (1560-1621). Admiranda narration fida tamen, de commodis et incolarum ritibus Virginiae, nuper admodum ab Anglis . Frankfurt: de Bry, 1590 [but circa 1608]. 2 o (341 x 236 mm). Title with overslips pasted on. Engraved title, arms, double-page map of Virginia & 28 plates. (Old repair on title verso, some occasional pale browning and spotting, some light fraying to fore-margins of several leaves). Second edition in Latin of part I of the "Great Voyages," second issue, with no errata at end and tailpieces as described in Church. Alden & Landis 608/78; Church 143. See Sabin 8784. [ With :] BENZONI, Girolamo. Americae pars quarta, sive Insignis & Admiranda Historia de reperta primum Occidentali India à Christophoro Columbo . Frankfurt: de Bry, 1594. Two volumes, 2 o (340 x 237 mm). Engraved title, dedication, half-page portrait of Columbus, half-page vignette above the Epigram, map "Occidentalis Americae partis" and 24 plates; additional map "Hispaniae novae sive magnae" from part V (see below). Second edition of part IV of the "Great Voyages." Church 155. See Alden & Landis 594/11; Sabin 4799 and 8784. [ With: ] BENZONI. Americae pars quinta. Frankfurt: de Bry, 1595 [but Oppenheim?: H. Galler?, circa 1617]. 2 o (341 x 230 mm). Engraved title and 22 plates. (Without the map, which is bound with part IV above.) Second edition of part V of the "Great Voyages." Alden & Landis 617/17; Church 157. Together 4 volumes, 2 o . Uniformly bound in contemporary German blind-tooled calf, each cover with large central arabesque stamped in blind (rubbing to board edges). Provenance : inscription in German on pastedowns recording the purchase date of 29 April 1740. A fine set of the first, fourth and fifth of de Bry's celebrated "Great Voyages" in Latin. The first consists of a translation of Thomas Hariot's A brief and true report of the new found land of Virginia (London, 1588). The map of Virginia is "ONE OF THE MOST SIGNIFICANT CARTOGRAPHICAL MILESTONES IN COLONIAL NORTH AMERICAN HISTORY" (Burden 76). "It was the most accurate map drawn in the sixteenth century of any part of that continent. It became the prototype of the area until long after James Moxon's map in 1671... This is the first map to focus on Virginia (now largely North Carolina), and records the first English attempts at colonisation in the New World" (ibid). It is here present in the second state. The fourth part contains the beginning of Girolamo Benzoni's Historia del mondo Nuovo (Venice, 1565), which is continued in the fifth part. It was translated into Latin by Urbain Chauverton, who also gave an account of the French expedition to Florida. De Bry has followed Chauverton's translation which was first published in Geneva in 1578, and has added to it a Latin translation of some of the notes which appeared in the French edition. The map of Florida and the West Indies is "beautifully engraved" and shows "the disproportionately sized islands of West Indies. The Florida peninsula is derived from that of le Moyne, 1591" (Burden 83).