Graphic sketches from old and authentic works, illustrating the costume, habits, and character, of the aborigines of America : together with rare and curious fragments relating to the discovery and settlement of the country.

Graphic sketches from old and authentic works, illustrating the costume, habits, and character, of the aborigines of America : together with rare and curious fragments relating to the discovery and settlement of the country. Bry, Theodor de, 1528-1598. White, John, active 1585-1593. Portraits to the life and manners of the inhabitants, of that province in America, called Virginia. Jay I. Kislak Collection (Library of Congress) DLC text Illustrated works. lcgft https://id.loc.gov/authorities/genreForms/gf2014026111 New York : J. and H.G. Langley, 1841. eng Plates accompanied by leaves with descriptive letterpress. The plates are figures in outline from de Bry's engravings, reduced. Half-title (p. [5]): Graphic sketches. Part I, The natives of Virginia, by John Wyth. 1585-1588. Added t.p. (leaf following p. 15): Portraits to the life and manners of the inhabitants, of that province in America, called Virginia, in charge of the honourable gentleman, Sir Walter Raleigh, knight and steward of the stannaries in Cornwall and Exeter, by licence and authority granted in the year 1585, for the government of the new provinces, by the Most Serene Queen of England Elizabeth, the whole carefully executed and drawn to the life, by John Wyth, sent forth to that province in the years 1585 to 1588, afterwards engraved on copper, and first published by Theofore De Bry, 1590. No more published. Checklist Amer. imprints, Indians of North America--Virginia. Indians of North America--Pictorial works. Indians of North America--Social life and customs. United States New York. Also available in digital form. https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/01016532 https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.rbc/Kislak.01016532