Admiranda narratio fida tamen, 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
Subtitle: Deducti sunt inuentae, sumtus faciente Dn. VValtero Raleigh equestris ordinis viro fodinaru[m] stanni praefecto ex auctoritate serenissimae Reginae Angliae
By: Anglico scripta sermone à Thoma Hariot eiusdem Walteri domestico, in eam coloniam misso vt regionis situm diligenter obseruaret. Nunc autem primum Latio donata à C.C.A.. Cum gratia et priuilegio Caes. Matis. Specli. ad quadrennium
Contributors: Clusius, Carolus, 1526-1609; White, John, active 1585-1593; Bry, Theodor de, 1528-1598
Edition: Second edition
Series: Great voyages -- pt. 1.; Great voyages -- pt. 1.
Publisher: Typis Ioannis Wecheli, sumptibus vero Theodori de Bry, anno M D XC. Venales reperiuntur in officina Sigismundi Feirabendii
Published: 1608
Place of publication: Francoforti ad Moenum
Language: lat
Number of pages: 36
Subjects: Indians of North America; Pictorial works; Picts; Description and travel; History
Other titles: Admiranda narratio fida tamen, de commodis et incolarvm ritibvs Virginiae, nuper admodvm ab Anglis, qvi à Dn. Richardo Greinvile equestris ordinis viro eò in coloniam anno M.D.LXXXV.
Work titles: Briefe and true report of the new found land of Virginia
Notes: Actual date of publication supplied by Church.

First edition of part one printed in Frankfurt am Main, 1590.

Constitutes the third issue of the first part of the second Latin edition of Theodor de Bry's Great voyages, printed in fourteen parts, in Latin, German, French, and English, in Frankfurt am Main, Oppenheim, and Hanau from 1590-1644, and the Elenchus, an outline of the thirteen Latin parts, published by Matthias Merian in Frankfurt am Main in 1634.

This work had been identified as the first part, third issue of the second Latin edition of the Great voyages by Church.

This issue there is no imprint at the foot of the engraved title page. The following plates were printed separately and laid down: 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10,11, 12, 14, 15, 16, 21, and 23. Plate 16 is not laid down. This issue is also without errata and the tail piece at the end of the index is the same as that opposite the plate of picts, No. 5. Cf. Church.

The C.C.A., on the title-page, are the initials of Carolus Clusius Artebatensis, i.e. Charles de L'Écluse, the celebrated botanist. Cf. Church.

Latin translation, by Charles de l'Écluse, of: A briefe and true report of the new found land of Virginia / by Thomas Harriot, first printed London, 1588.

"Vivae imagines et ritvs incolarvm eivs provinciae in America, qvae Virginia appellata est ab Anglis, ivssv magnifici viri D. Waltheri Raleig, equitis & praefecti fodinarum stanni in Cornuwallia & Exonia, profectis anno M D XXCV. ad obseruandas nouas prouincias, permissu & authoritate serenissimae Reginae Angliae Elizabethae. Omnia diligenter observata, et ad viuum expressa à Joanne With, eius rei gratia in illam prouinciam annis 1585. & 1588. misso: deinde in aes incisa, & primùm in lusem euulgata a Theodoro de Bry", p. [1-4], 2nd count, has divisional title page.

"Pictorvm, Britanniae partem olim incolentivm aliqvot icones", p. [19], 2nd count, has divisional title page.

Signatures: a⁴ (a1 verso blank) b⁶ c⁴ d⁸ (d4 verso, d6 recto, d7 verso blank) A⁶ B-C⁸ D⁶ (D5 missigned D4) (D6 blank) E⁸ F⁶ (F6 blank)

Includes index on p. [31-33], 2nd count.

Fully engraved and illustrated title page; engraved head and tail pieces; initials.

Contains 31 leaves of plates which are numbered I-XXIII following p. [1-4], 2nd count, one of which is a double map of Virginia with the names of the native tribes and their locations, one double and another double folded plates, the rest of which are printed on recto only with descriptive letterpress text, and which are signed [d4-d8] and A⁶ B-C⁸ D⁶ E⁸ F⁶; plates numbered I-V follow p. [19-20], 2nd count, and contain illustrations of the mysterious people known as the Picts, which are printed on recto only, and are signed E⁸ and F1-2.

The plate of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, engraved by Theodor de Bry, is considered by Church to be not only leaf d6 but also plate [I] following "Vivae imagines et ritvs incolarvm eivs provinciae in America", p. [1-4], 2nd count; here it is not counted as a plate. The double map of Virginia, listed as plate I "Tabula generalis totius regionis situm ob oculos ponens", bound between leaves d7 and d8 should be listed as plate [I] in Church.

Church, E.D.  Discovery, 144.

JCB Lib. cat., pre-1675, I: p. 384.

Alden, J.E. European Americana, 608/78.