Histoire de la Virginie with Voyage de Guillaume Dampier, avec le Voyage de Lionel Wafer

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Author: Robert Beverley Jr (c1667-1722); William Guillaume Dampier and Lionel Wafer Year: 1707-1705 Publisher: Thomas Lombrail and Marret Place: Amsterdam Description: 2 works bound as one. Histoire de la Virginie [iv]+432-folding typographical table+[ xvi index] pages with title page printed in red and black, illustrated engraved frontispiece featuring the arms of the Commonwealth, fourteen full-page engravings of Native Americans. Second edition in French (translated from the English and published in the same year as the first French-language Paris edition) with Voyage de Guillaume Dampier, avec le Voyage de Lionel Wafer 274+[xiv index] pages with title page printed in red and black, illustrated with eighteen folding engravings including maps, plants, birds, fish, and Native American Indians. Only six copies of the 1705 edition found in OCLC. Duodecimo (6" x 3 3/4") the two bound in full contemporary mottled calf with five raised spine bands in gilt-tooled spine. Histoire de la Virginie, w ritten by a native Virginian and published originally in English in 1705, Robert Beverley's work is considered the most important and reliable history of early life in the Virginia colony. He was a clerk of the council of Virginia about 1697, and his history covers all aspects of life in Virginia, including the best contemporary account of the Native American tribes and the life of its early settlers. The engraved plates are based on 16th-century drawings by John White. William Dampier (c

• Binding: Hardcover

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