Engraved, historiated t.p.

The collection begun by T. de Bry with this title is known as: America, or as: Great voyages.

First edition, first issue.

Signatures : a⁴, b⁶, c⁴, d⁸, A⁶, B-C⁸, D⁶, E⁸, F⁶ (D6 blank).

Translation by Carolus Clusius of: A brief and true report of the new found land of Virginia.

Includes index.

Separate title page, sig. d4r: Vivae imagines et ritvs incolarvm eivs provinciae in America, qvae Virginia appellata est ab Anglis ... omnia diligenter observata, et ad viuum expressa a Joanne With ... deinde in æs incisa, & primùm in lucem euulgata a Theodoro de Bry. Most of the plates which follow have been engraved by Bry and G. Veen, each numbered in arabic on the plates and in roman with the printed captions, nine of which face plates on a separate leaf.

Woodcut ornaments and initials.

Church, E. D. Discovery, 140

Sabin III,p. 24-27

Brunet I, columns 1315-1318

Library's copy with: Brevis narratio eorum quae in Florida America provincia ... secunda pars Americae / auctore Iacobo le Moyne ... de Morgues, Francoforti ad Moenum, 1591. The plates of the 2nd part are bound in first with the t.p. reading: Indorum Floridam provinciam inhabitatium eicones ..., followed by the text, and finally by the present 1st part.