A briefe and true report of the new found land of Virginia
Subtitle: of the commodities and of the nature and manners of the naturall inhabitants : discouered by the English Colony there seated by Sir Richard Greinuile Knight in the yeere 1585 : which remained vnder the gouerenment of twelue monethes, at the speciall charge and direction of the Honourable Sir Walter Raleigh Knight Lord Warden of the stanneries who therein hath beene fauoured and authorised by her Maiestie and her letters patents
By: this fore booke is made in English by Thomas Hariot seruant to the aboue-named Sir Walter, a member of the Colony, and there imployed in discouering ; cvm gratia et privilegio Caes. Matis Speciali. Francoforti ad Moenvm, typis Ioannis Wecheli, svmtibvs vero Theodori de Bry anno CIC IC XC. Venales reperivntvr in officina Sigismvndi Feirabendii
Contributors: White, John, active 1585-1593; Hakluyt, Richard, 1552?-1616; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project); University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library
Edition: Electronic ed.
Publisher: Academic Affairs Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Chapel Hill, N.C.]
Language: eng
Translated from: lat
Subjects: Discovery and exploration; Description and travel; Early works to 1800; Indians of North America; History
Other titles: Brief and true report of the new found land of Virginia; The North Carolina experience, beginnings to 1940.
Notes: Title from electronic title page (viewed June 24, 2003)

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Transcribed from: A briefe and true report of the new found land of Virginia ... [New York : Reprinted by J. Sabin & Sons, 1871] 33 p., 47 l. of plates : ill., map ; 37 x 29 cm. Includes 28 plates by T. de Bry from drawings by J. White, with special t.p.: The true pictures and fashions of the people in that parte of America now called Virginia. Photo-lithographic facsimile of the English edition (1590) of p. 1 of de Bry's "America." Translated out of Latin into English by Richard Hacklvit. Diligentlye collected and draowne by Ihon White ...; followed by the 5 plates of the Picts, with title: Som pictvre, of the Pictes ...

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