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

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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 originally published by Theofore De Bry, 1590 No more published Checklist Amer. imprints
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