Admiranda Narratio fida tamen, de Commodis et incolaum Ritibus Virginiae nuper admodum ab Anglis….Waltero Raleigh……Thoma Hariot, ejusdem Walteri…

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Admiranda Narratio fida tamen, de Commodis et incolaum Ritibus Virginiae nuper admodum ab Anglis….Waltero Raleigh……Thoma Hariot, ejusdem Walteri…

Magnificently coloured travel book by Theodor de Bry. Part 1-6, of the Latin "Great Travels" in 1 volume. Frankfurt, J. Wechel for T. de Bry, 1590-1605. With 8 titles and intertitles, 4 coats of arms, 1. portrait, 6 folded maps with America and its explorers, South Amerika with the Caribean, America with the4 explorers , Florida,Virginia, tolal Caribean, Mexico. 1 folded bird's-eye view, Adam and Eve and 164 engravings. 17th century binding with gilt title. The first five parts and the first section of the sixth part of one of the most important travel collections of the early modern period. Parts 1-5 in second, part 6 in first Latin edition.- Part 1, 1590. T. Hariot. Admiranda narratio fida tamen, de commodis et incolarum ritibus Virginiae. - Part 2, 1591 J. LeMoyne. Brevis narratio eorum quae in Florida Americae provincia Gallis acciderunt quae est secunda pars Americae… - Part 3, 1592 Kolophon 1605. J. Staden. Americae tertia pars, memorabilen provinciae Brasiliae continens. - Part 4, 1594. G. Benzoni. Americae pars quarta. Sive, insignis & admiranda historia de reperta primum Occidentali India à Christophoro Columbo anno M.CCCCXCII. -Part 5, 1595 G. Benzoni. Americae pars quinta. Nobilis & admiratione plena Hieronymi Bezoni secundae sectionis Hispanorum. - Part 6, 1596. G. Benzoni. Americae pars sexta. Sive historiae ab Hieronymo Bezono Mediolanese scriptae, sectio tertia.

ca. 1590

Artist

Bry, de - Thomas Hariot (1528-1598)

Thomas Hariot (1560–1621) was an English mathematician, astronomer, and linguist. In the 1580s, he assisted Sir Walter Raleigh in planning the failed Roanoke colonies in North America. Hariot taught navigation techniques and learned the Algonquian language from two Native Americans. Together with artist John White, he mapped the Outer Banks and Chesapeake Bay regions. His only work published during his lifetime assessed Virginia’s economic potential. After a brief imprisonment related to the Gunpowder Plot, he calculated Halley’s comet orbit and observed sunspots. Theodor de Bry (1528–1598) founded a copper engraving and publishing business in Frankfurt am Main. Between 1586 and 1588, he worked in London with geographers, collecting reports and illustrations from exploration voyages. From 1590 to 1634, supported by his sons Johann Theodor and Johann Israel, he published important travel collections about the West and East Indies in Frankfurt.

Historical Description

Under the discovery of Americans, we understand the first sighting of the continent by seafarers from the global civilization. Around 1000, the Vikings established a short-lived settlement in Newfoundland, now known as L'Anse aux Meadows. Speculations exist about other Old World discoveries of the New World, but none of these are generally or completely accepted by most scholars. Spain sponsored a major exploration led by Italian explorer Christopher Columbus in 1492; it quickly led to extensive European colonization of the Americas. The Europeans brought Old World diseases which are thought to have caused catastrophic epidemics and a huge decrease of the native population. Columbus came at a time in which many technical developments in sailing techniques and communication made it possible to report his voyages easily and to spread word of them throughout Europe. It was also a time of growing religious, imperial and economic rivalries that led to a competition for the establishment of colonies. The formation of sovereign states in the New World began with the United States Declaration of Independence of 1776. The American Revolutionary War lasted through the period of the Siege of Yorktown — its last major campaign — in the early autumn of 1781, with peace being achieved in 1783. The Spanish colonies won their independence in the first quarter of the 19th century, in the Spanish American wars of independence. Simón Bolívar and José de San Martín, among others, led their independence struggle. Although Bolivar attempted to keep the Spanish-speaking parts of Latin America politically allied, they rapidly became independent of one another as well, and several further wars were fought, such as the Paraguayan War and the War of the Pacific. (See Latin American integration.) In the Portuguese colony Dom Pedro I (also Pedro IV of Portugal), son of the Portuguese king Dom João VI, proclaimed the country's independence in 1822 and became Brazil's first Emperor. This was peacefully accepted by the crown in Portugal, upon compensation.