EUSEBIUS CAESARIENSIS (ca 260-ca 360). Chronicon , translated by St. Jerome, with additions by St. Tiro Propser Aquitanus (to 448), Matteo Palieri (to 1449) and Mattia Palmieri (to 1481). Edited by Johannes Multivallis of Tournai (with his additions to 1512). Paris: Paris: H. Estienne and Jodocus Badius Ascensius 1512. 4 o (215 x 160 mm). Title within woodcut border, woodcut initials printed in red-and-black. (Small internal repaired hole on final leaf, with several letters on colophon supplied in manuscript, some occasional spotting and light soiling, small marginal stain on title and first few leaves.) Eighteenth-century plain blue boards (text block loose in binding, rebacked preserving original spine). Provenance : William Morris (Kelmscott bookplate). Later updated edition of Eusebius's important chronicle, FIRST ESTIENNE EDITION, CONTAINING "THE FIRST ACCOUNT OF THE CANADIAN INDIAN" (Lande). Under the date of 1500 is found reference to the journey of the Venetian, Cadomosto, to America. For 1509 there is a very long entry describing the arrival of "Septem homines sylvestres ex ea insula (quf terra nova dicit)"--seven savage men from the Islands called Newfoundland--(probably Micmacs or Beothuks) brought to France by Captain Thomas Aubert, who was the pilot of Jean Angot . This is generally thought to be the first printed reference to the Canadian Indians. In the 20-line description there are numerous details about the men: they have scars (tattoos) from ear to chin, their hair is black and long, they are devoid of body and facial hair, even on their chins; they have no religion; their weapons consist of a bow, the cords of which are made from intestines or sinews, and arrows; they spear fish, they eat roasted meat and drink nothing but water; their clothes are made from the skins of bears, stags, sea cows and the like; their land us under the same meridian as France. A.G. Bailey, in Conflict of Europeans & Eastern Algonkian Cultures, 1504-1700, A Study in Canadian Civilization (1937), states that "the first authenticated French voyage to the New World occurred in 1504, and from this date onward a great many expeditions sailed from Norman and Breton parts ... The Pensée set out from Dieppe in 1507. In his voyage of 1508, Thomas Aubert brought Micmacs or Beothuks back to France, where they contributed to the models for a work in bas-relief which is still preserved at the Church of St. James in Dieppe. He is said to have ascended the St. Lawrence to a distance of eighty leagues" (p.5). Adams E-1073; Harrisse 71; Harvard/Mortimer French 217 (1518 edition); Lande S733 ("the first Paris edition of 1512, and as far as we know the first account of the Canadian Indian"); Renouard Estienne , p. 12-13, no 15; Sabin 23114; Streeter I:91.
EUSEBIUS CAESARIENSIS (ca 260-ca 360). Chronicon , translated by St. Jerome, with additions by St. Tiro Propser Aquitanus (to 448), Matteo Palieri (to 1449) and Mattia Palmieri (to 1481). Edited by Johannes Multivallis of Tournai (with his additions to 1512). Paris: Paris: H. Estienne and Jodocus Badius Ascensius 1512. 4 o (215 x 160 mm). Title within woodcut border, woodcut initials printed in red-and-black. (Small internal repaired hole on final leaf, with several letters on colophon supplied in manuscript, some occasional spotting and light soiling, small marginal stain on title and first few leaves.) Eighteenth-century plain blue boards (text block loose in binding, rebacked preserving original spine). Provenance : William Morris (Kelmscott bookplate). Later updated edition of Eusebius's important chronicle, FIRST ESTIENNE EDITION, CONTAINING "THE FIRST ACCOUNT OF THE CANADIAN INDIAN" (Lande). Under the date of 1500 is found reference to the journey of the Venetian, Cadomosto, to America. For 1509 there is a very long entry describing the arrival of "Septem homines sylvestres ex ea insula (quf terra nova dicit)"--seven savage men from the Islands called Newfoundland--(probably Micmacs or Beothuks) brought to France by Captain Thomas Aubert, who was the pilot of Jean Angot . This is generally thought to be the first printed reference to the Canadian Indians. In the 20-line description there are numerous details about the men: they have scars (tattoos) from ear to chin, their hair is black and long, they are devoid of body and facial hair, even on their chins; they have no religion; their weapons consist of a bow, the cords of which are made from intestines or sinews, and arrows; they spear fish, they eat roasted meat and drink nothing but water; their clothes are made from the skins of bears, stags, sea cows and the like; their land us under the same meridian as France. A.G. Bailey, in Conflict of Europeans & Eastern Algonkian Cultures, 1504-1700, A Study in Canadian Civilization (1937), states that "the first authenticated French voyage to the New World occurred in 1504, and from this date onward a great many expeditions sailed from Norman and Breton parts ... The Pensée set out from Dieppe in 1507. In his voyage of 1508, Thomas Aubert brought Micmacs or Beothuks back to France, where they contributed to the models for a work in bas-relief which is still preserved at the Church of St. James in Dieppe. He is said to have ascended the St. Lawrence to a distance of eighty leagues" (p.5). Adams E-1073; Harrisse 71; Harvard/Mortimer French 217 (1518 edition); Lande S733 ("the first Paris edition of 1512, and as far as we know the first account of the Canadian Indian"); Renouard Estienne , p. 12-13, no 15; Sabin 23114; Streeter I:91.
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