"Wunderbarliche, doch warhafftige Erklärung, vonder Gelegenheit vnd Sitten der Wilden in Virginia"

-2nd German Edition of De Bry's "Admiranda Narratio" / A Brief and True report

-Thomas Harriot

- 1600

- Complete text but missing 2 plates, the map, and the image of Adam and Eve

- Collation: TP, Dedication, 7-31, Letterpress TP to plates, register, Plates II-XXII, Letter press title to picts, 4 pict plates with accompanying leaves, register and colophon

• Missing the map
• 25 (of 28) plates. Present are 21 (of 22) plates of the Algonquian First Nation (missing plate 1), 4 (of 5) of the Picts. Lacking the Plate of Adam and Eve.
• Plate 7 in German 1st edition (and numbered 8)

-Unbound

-Good condition but pages different sizes, some stains and tears. Would benefit from restoration and rebinding.

This famous work is a cornerstone of all collections on early Americana. The expedition was funded by Walter Raleigh and aimed to found a colony in the New World, the failed colony at Roanoke. Thomas Harriot's account was written to encourage support and to fund colonisation of the New World. It give a sympathetic (sometimes exaggerated) account of the fertility of the new world and the kind and healthy First Nations living there. Famously the the engravings are based on images by John White who drew some of the most important images of the Algonquian First Nations who resided in the Outer Banks.

Click here for other parts of De Bry's Grands Voyages