Hariot, Thomas, [and John White] — Theodor De Bry and Johann Theodor De Bry [HARIOT'S VIRGINIA] ADMIRANDA NARRATIO FIDA TAMEN, DE COMMODIS ET INCOLARUM RITIBUS VIRGINIAE ... FRANKFURT: TYPIS JOHANNIS WECHELI, SUMTIBUS VERO JOHANNIS-THEODORI DE BRY, '1590' [BUT CIRCA 1608] Folio (13 1/4 x 9 in.; 335 x 228 mm). Engraved allegorical title to text with overslips in Latin, letterpress title to plates, engraved arms on dedication leaf. 1 double-page engraved map of Virginia [Burden 76, state 2], 1 engraved plate of Adam and Eve (first state with inscription "Iodocus a Winghe in / / Theodore de Bry fe", 27 engraved plates after John White with blank D6 but without the final blank F6 (as in Church); various small neat expert repairs to corners, few tiny closed edge tears; three leaves misbound. Expertly bound to style in 18th-century blue/green morocco, covers with gilt roll tool border, the flat spine divided into six compartments with gilt roll tools and fillets, lettered in the second compartment, the others tooled with alternating neo-classical tools, 18th-century marbled endpapers. A lovely copy.
Hariot, Thomas, [and John White] — Theodor De Bry and Johann Theodor De Bry [HARIOT'S VIRGINIA] ADMIRANDA NARRATIO FIDA TAMEN, DE COMMODIS ET INCOLARUM RITIBUS VIRGINIAE ... FRANKFURT: TYPIS JOHANNIS WECHELI, SUMTIBUS VERO JOHANNIS-THEODORI DE BRY, '1590' [BUT CIRCA 1608] Folio (13 1/4 x 9 in.; 335 x 228 mm). Engraved allegorical title to text with overslips in Latin, letterpress title to plates, engraved arms on dedication leaf. 1 double-page engraved map of Virginia [Burden 76, state 2], 1 engraved plate of Adam and Eve (first state with inscription "Iodocus a Winghe in / / Theodore de Bry fe", 27 engraved plates after John White with blank D6 but without the final blank F6 (as in Church); various small neat expert repairs to corners, few tiny closed edge tears; three leaves misbound. Expertly bound to style in 18th-century blue/green morocco, covers with gilt roll tool border, the flat spine divided into six compartments with gilt roll tools and fillets, lettered in the second compartment, the others tooled with alternating neo-classical tools, 18th-century marbled endpapers. A lovely copy.
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