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Brevis narratio eorum quae in Florida Americae provi[n]cia Gallis acciderunt, : secunda in illam nauigatione, duce Renato de Laudo[n]niere classis praefecto anno M D LXIIII. Quae est secunda pars Americae. Additae figurae et incolarum eicones ibidem ad vivu[m] espressae brevis item declaratio religionis, rituum, vivendique ratione ipsorum.

Le Moyne de Morgues, Jacques, 1533?-1588, Clusius, Carolus, 1526-1609, Bry, Theodor de, 1528-1598 · 1609 · Francoforti ad Moenum : Typis Ioa[n]nis Wecheli, sumtibus vero Theodori de Bry, anno M D XCI. Venales reperiu[n]tur in officina Sigismundi Feirabe[n]dii · 16 pictures

This is a 1609 Latin-language account of French Huguenot voyages to Florida in the 1560s, compiled by Theodor de Bry from the drawings of Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues and printed at Frankfurt am Main. The engravings show the Timucua people's ceremonies, hunting, and village life, and show the French expedition's forts and battles in a plain, orderly style that a designer could use as a model for sixteenth-century ethnographic scenes with dense, labelled captions.

Ribaut, Jean, approximately 1520-1565 · Laudonnière, René Goulaine de · Gourgues, Dominique de, 1530?-1593 · Huguenots · Imprint 1609

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