Admiranda narratio, fida tamen
Subtitle: de commodis et incolarum ritibus Virginiae nuper admodum ab Anglis, qui à Dn. Richardo Greinvile equestris ordinis viro eò in coloniam anno M.D.LXXXV. deducti sunt inventae, sumtus faciente Dn. VValtero Raleigh equestris ordinis viro fodinaru[m] stanni praefecto ex auctoritate serenissimae Reginae Angliae : Anglico scripta sermone à Thoma Hariot eiusdem Walteri domestico, in eam coloniam misso et regionis si tum diligenter observaret nunc autem primum Latio donata à C.C.A.
Contributors: Clusius, Carolus, 1526-1609.; White, John, fl. 1585-1593.; Hariot, Thomas, 1560-1621.; Church, Elihu Dwight, 1835-1908, former owner.; Jay I.  Kislak Collection (Library of Congress); Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress); Thomas Jefferson Library Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Typis Ioannis Wecheli, sumptibus vero Theodori de Bry, venales reperiuntur in officina Sigismundi Feierabendii
Published: 1590
Place of publication: Francoforti ad Moenum
Language: lat
Number of pages: 34
Subjects: Indians of North America -- Virginia -- Early works to 1800; Virginia -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800; Virginia -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- Sources; Roanoke Colony -- Early works to 1800; Roanoke Island (N.C.) -- Early works to 1800
Genres: Early works to 1800.; Sources.
Work titles: America. Pars 1
Notes: Plates I-XXIII have title: Vivae imagines et ritus incolarum eius provinciae in America, quae Virginia appelata est ... omnia diligenter observata, et ad viuum expressa a Joanne With ...; plates I-V (2nd sequence) have title: Pictorum, Britanniae partem olim incolentium aliquot icones; map on double leaf.

Includes index.

First ed., first issue. Cf. Church; with privilege printed on t.p.

Church, E.D.  Discovery, 140

Church, E.D.  Discovery, 141

Rosenwald 1309

Sabin, III, p. 24-27

Sowerby, E.M.  Cat. of the lib. of Thomas Jefferson, 3973

Latin translation by Charles de L'Écluse of Thomas Hariot's Briefe and true report of the new found land of Virginia.

LC copy has the bookplate of E.D. Church.