Wunderbarliche, doch warhafftige Erklärung von der Gelegenheit vnd Sitten der Wilden in Virginia ...

Bry, Theodor de, 1528-1598 · 1590 · [Gedruckt zu Franckfort am Mäyn? : Bey Johann Wechel in Verlegung Dieterich Bry] · 12 pictures

This 1590 German edition of Theodor de Bry's account of Thomas Hariot's Virginia, printed at Frankfurt by Johann Wechel for the Bry publishing house, is a folio of copperplate-derived woodcut-style views of Algonquian life and European voyages. Its plates show native ceremonies, village fields, and ship and shoreline scenes laid out with numbered captions, offering a designer dense, labelled compositions of crowds, fires, boats and planted fields.

Hariot, Thomas, 1560-1621 · Indians of North America · Indians of North America -- North Carolina · America -- Early accounts to 1600 · North Carolina -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800 · Roanoke Colony

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