Bry, Theodor de, 1528-1598 Hariot, Thomas, 1560-1621. Admiranda narratio White, John, fl. 1585-1593
Published / Created:
1590
Call Number:
E159 +B79 1-5
Image Count:
4
Resource Type:
Books, Journals & Pamphlets
Alternative Title:
Admiranda narratio ... de commodis ... Virginiæ and America. pars 1
Description:
First ed., 1st issue -- cf. Church. Cat. of books relating to ... America, 140; with privilege printed on t.-p.; illus. nos. 3-4, 7-8, 10-12 as in 1st ed., 2d issue (Church 141)., Illus. 1-23 have title: Vivæ imagines et ritvs incolarvm eivs proviniæ in America, qvæ Virginia appelata est ... Omnia diligenter observata, et ad viuum expressa a Joanne With ... Illus. 24-28 have title: Pictorvm, Britanniae partem olim incolentivum aliqvot icones., and With this is bound the editor's [America. pts. 2-5. Latin] Francoforti, 1590-95. Imperfect: signature D6, blank, wanting.
Publisher:
Typis I. Wecheli, svmtibvs T. de Bry, venales reperivntvr in officina S. Feierabendii,
Subject (Geographic):
Roanoke Colony (N.C.), Virginia--Description and travel, and Virginia--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America--Virginia --Pictorial works --Early works to 1800
Extract from a diary of the second mate on a Spanish voyage to explore the northern coast of California.
Description:
Juan Pantoja y Arriaga, second mate of the frigate la Princesa, one of two ships (the other, la Favorita)on a voyage headed by Ignacio Arteaga to discover a Northwest passage north of San Francisco in 1779. La Princesa was commanded by Juan Francis de la Bodega y Cuadra., Purchased from F. Perez de Velasco by Hiram Bingham in October 1922. Given to the library by Hiram Bingham., and Second work bound in a volume titled Tomo regio para el concilio provincial. For a full description of the volume, search by call number: WA MSS S-216.
Subject (Geographic):
Northwest Passage--Discovery and exploration
Subject (Name):
Arteaga y Bazán, Ignacio, Favorita (frigate), Pantoja y Arriaga, Juan, and Princesa (Ship)
"The following passages, taken from Norman Douglas's Old Calabria, chapter 36 (Memories of Gissing), were probably based on the writer's visit to that region in 1911 11, some eight years after Gissing's death. [signed by] A.A."--Prelim., "This opuscule, designed to accompany the Tragara Press edition of By the Ionian Sea, is limited to thirty copies hand-set in Perpetua type and printed on paper made by Amatruda of Amalfi"--Colophon., and Cover title.
Publisher:
Tragara Press
Subject (Geographic):
Calabria (Italy)--Description and travel
Subject (Name):
Douglas, Norman, 1868-1952. Old Calabria, Gissing, George, 1857-1903--By the Ionian Sea, Gissing, George, 1857-1903--Homes and haunts--Italy, and Tragara Press
