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Great Voyages, part II] 'Brevis narratio eorum quae in Florida americae provincia gallis acciderunt.auctore Iacobo le Moyne.quae est seconda pars Americae.
Frankfurt: Theodor de Bry 1591.Part II only. Folio (347 x 244 mm). 2 parts in one volume. [8], 31pp. with the rare folding engraved map "Floridae Americae Provinciae" (380 x 470 mm).; second engraved title, 42 ff. (text and printed on rectos only), [13] ff. (colophon leaf not present). Later vellum, red cloth slipcase. Condition : map and title rehinged, short closed tear to map, text toned with some intermittent spotting. Provenance: Thomas Brown Wilber (stamp to endpaper). Acquisition : purchased from William Reese Company (2000), $22,000. de bry's first latin edition part II documenting the disastrous french attempts to colonize florida. a key work on the florida indians . This, the second part of De Bry's Grand Voyages , recounts the misery of the aborted French Huguenot colonies in Florida in 1562, 1564, and 1567. The narrative is taken from those by Jean Ribault, Rene de Laudonniere and Dominque de Gourges. Laudonniere managed to found St. Augustine, and the city remains the oldest contiually occupied European settlement in United States. The artist Jacques le Moyne, who was engaged to visually record and map the second expedition escaped the Spanish massacre of the French settlers at Fort Caroline and went to London where he died. His widow sold his papers to De Bry, who subsequently first published them. The authors of the other two narratives are unknown. Le Moyne's illustrations of the Florida tribes depict a wealth of information of Indian life and customs. They remained the best such depictions until the 19th century and were widely copied. The map, here in its first appearance, records both Indian, Spanish and French place names. "…the most remarkable and important map, which has been preserved from the sixteenth century maps, of that part of the East Coast which lies between Cape Hatteras and Cape Florida … the first French map to show Florida … considered the most important map of Florida." - Johns Matthews Baxter Brunet I 1320; Burden, Mapping of North America, 79; Church 145; Cumming 14; Clark I:16; European Americana 591/39; Sabin 8784; Servies 70; Streeter II 1172.