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bibliographie
Beck, Lauren, “Illustrating the Conquest in the
Long Eighteenth Century: Theodore de Bry
and His Legacy,” in
Book Illustration in the
Long Eighteenth Century: Reconfiguring the
Visual Periphery of the Text,
Ed. Christina
Ionescu. Newcastle upon Tyne, 2011, pp.
501-40. – Bouyer M. et Duviols J.-P.,
Le
Théâtre du Nouveau Monde: Les Grands
Voyages de Théodore de Bry.
, Paris, 1992.
– [Exposition]
Les «de Bry», Une famille de
joailliers-graveurs
, Musée de la vie wallonne,
Liège, 1986.
Arents 37, 39, 44. - Church 141, 145, 151, 154,
156, 158, 161, 164, 168. - European Americana
590/31, 591/39, 605/118, 594/11, 595/8, 596/9,
599/80, 599/21, 602/. - JCB (3) I: 383-84, 387-
88, 390-92, 393-94, 395-94, 395, 396-97, 399,
400-402, 406-8. - Sabin 8784.
BRY THÉODORE DE
(1528-1598).
Alsatian and Belgian engraver.
Admiranda Narratio, fida tamen,
de commodis et incolarum ritibus
Virginiae, nuper admodum ab
Anglis, qui a Dn. Richardo Greinville
equestris ordinis viro eo in coloniam
anno M D LXXXV deducti sunt,
inventae, sumtus faciente Dn.
Waltero Raleigh equestris ordinis
viro fodinarum stanni praefecto ex
auctoritate serenissimae reginae
angliae. Anglico scripta sermone
a Thoma Hariot eiusdem Walteri
domestic in eam coloniam miss out
regionis si tum diligenter observant.
Nunc autem primum latio donata a
C. C. A.
[Carolo Clusio Atrebatensi =
Charles de l’Ecluse]
Francoforti ad Moenum, typis Ioannis
Wecheli, sumtibus vero Theodor de
Bry anno M D XC. Venales reperiuntur
in oficina Sigismundi Feirabendi
Successive title-pages and colophons
[Francfurt, 1590-1602].
50 000 / 60 000 €
In-folio, 2 volumes, a few errors in pagination
and some leaves bound out of sequences (full
collation available upon request), 12 engraved
title-pages and 1 title-page with engraving
(pars VIII), 17 full page illustrations with 2
folding plates, 9 double page engravings, with
7 folding plates ; 258 half-page engravings.
Bound in a 17th century binding, full red
morocco, frame on boards composed
of a triple gilt filet, back sewn on 6 raised
bands, gilt, marbled pastedowns, gilt edges.
Boards rubbed, some stains to boards, hinges
rubbed, foxing to paper. Dimensions of
volumes: 355 x 250 mm.
First edition of the first nine parts of De Bry’s
Great Voyages
(with the exception of part III
here in second edition, published in 1605,
but with date on title-page “1592”).
Amongst the texts found in the nine parts
gathered in this copy, there is the Latin
translation of Thomas Hariot (1560-1621),
A
Briefe and True Report of the New Found
Land of Virginia
, first published in 1588 which
is the foundation work on the early exploration
and delineation of America and an important
first hand account of the abortive Roanoke
colony, the first settlement attempt by the
British in the New World. Hariot, like the
artist, John White (c. 1540-c. 1593) was part
of the Roanoke expedition and wrote his
account from actual observation. It is the
first description of the Virginia and Carolina
country. The map which accompanies the
volume is the first considerably accurate
map of the Virginia coast and Carolina
capes, showing the coast from the mouth
of the Chesapeake to Wilmington, North
Carolina. John White’s illustrations are
among the most famous of early American
images. White was the lieutenant-governor of
the colony, and a skilled artist. His carefully
executed watercolors were gleaned from
close observation and remarkably accurate
renderings of the Carolina Indians and their
customs, costumes, rituals, hunting. They
represent the sole-surviving visual record of
the native inhabitants of America encountered
by England’s first settlers. White’s watercolors
would soon become a sensation in Europe;
it was not long before the watercolors
were engraved by the Flemish master
engraver Theodore de Bry in this publication.
provenance
Thomas Weld-Blundell (1808-1887), his
heraldic ex-libris, engraved and pasted on the
upper pastedown. An ink inscription on the
first flyleaf indicating placement in a library
(that of Weld-Blundell ?): « Bill[iard] Room.
Cupboard ». Shelfmarks “1490” and “1491.”
For bibliographical references see French
entry.
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