Histoire naturelle des Indes
Subtitle: the Drake manuscript in the Pierpont Morgan Library
By: preface by Charles E. Pierce, Jr. ; foreword by Patrick O'Brian ; introduction by Verlyn Klinkenborg ; translations by Ruth S. Kraemer.
Contributors: Pierpont Morgan Library.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Norton
Published: 1996
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
Subjects: Natural history -- Caribbean Area -- Early works to 1800.; Indians -- First contact with Europeans.; Manuscripts, English -- New York (State) -- New York -- Facsimile.; Caribbean Area -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800.; Caribbean Area -- Social life and customs -- Early works to 1800.; Caribbean Area -- Pictorial works.
Notes: "Though this work is often called the Drake manuscript, it bears on its title page (inserted when it was bound) the name Histoire naturelle des Indes -- The natural history of the Indies. That is an accurate account of its contents, for the volume contains 199 separate images of West Indian plants, animals and Indian life with accompanying captions written in late sixteenth-century French"--Introduction.