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

Title

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

Description

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, linguist, and experimental scientist. In the 1580s he was Sir Walter Raleigh's principal assistant in planning and attempting to establish the English colonies on Roanoke Island off the coast of what is now North Carolina. He taught Raleigh's captains how to navigate the Atlantic using sophisticated navigation methods that were unknown in England at the time. He also learned the Algonquian language from two Virginia Indians, Wanchese and Manteo. In 1585, Hariot joined the expedition to Roanoke, which failed, and returned to England the following year. While in America, Hariot helped explore what is now the Outer Banks region and further north on the Chesapeake Bay. He also collaborated with artist John White to produce several maps that were known for their accuracy at the time. Although Hariot left an extensive estate, the only work published during his lifetime was A brief and true report of the new found land of Virginia, which assessed Virginia's economic potential. The report appeared most impressively in Theodor de Bry's 1590 edition, which included etchings based on the White-Hariot maps and White's watercolors of Indian life. After a brief imprisonment in connection with the Gunpowder Plot (1605), Hariot calculated the orbit of Halley's Comet, sketched and mapped the moon, and observed sunspots. He died in 1621. Theodorus de Bry (1528-1598) Frankfurt a.M. Around 1570, Theodorus de Bry, a Protestant, fled religious persecution south to Strasbourg, along the west bank of the Rhine. In 1577, he moved to Antwerp in the Duchy of Brabant, which was part of the Spanish Netherlands or Southern Netherlands and Low Countries of that time (16th Century), where he further developed and used his skills as a copper engraver. Between 1585 and 1588 he lived in London, where he met the geographer Richard Hakluyt and began to collect stories and illustrations of various European explorations, most notably from Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues. Depiction of Spanish atrocities in the New World, as recounted by Bartolome de las Casas in Narratio Regionum indicarum per Hispanos Quosdam devastatarum verissima. In 1588, Theodorus and his family moved permanently to Frankfurt-am-Main, where he became citizen and began to plan his first publications. The most famous one is known as Les Grands Voyages, i.e., The Great Travels, or The Discovery of America. He also published the largely identical India Orientalis-series, as well as many other illustrated works on a wide range of subjects. His books were published in Latin, and were also translated into German, English and French to reach a wider reading public. ---Theodorus de Bry (1528-1598) Frankfurt a.M. Around 1570, Theodorus de Bry, a Protestant, fled religious persecution south to Strasbourg, along the west bank of the Rhine. In 1577, he moved to Antwerp in the Duchy of Brabant, which was part of the Spanish Netherlands or Southern Netherlands and Low Countries of that time (16th Century), where he further developed and used his skills as a copper engraver. Between 1585 and 1588 he lived in London, where he met the geographer Richard Hakluyt and began to collect stories and illustrations of various European explorations, most notably from Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues. Depiction of Spanish atrocities in the New World, as recounted by Bartolome de las Casas in Narratio Regionum indicarum per Hispanos Quosdam devastatarum verissima. In 1588, Theodorus and his family moved permanently to Frankfurt-am-Main, where he became citizen and began to plan his first publications. The most famous one is known as Les Grands Voyages, i.e., The Great Travels, or The Discovery of America. He also published the largely identical India Orientalis-series, as well as many other illustrated works on a wide range of subjects. His books were published in Latin, and were also translated into German, English and French to reach a wider reading public.

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.