[VIRGINIA] Historien und Bericht von dem newlicher Zeit erfundenen Königreich China,

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wie es nach umbstenden, so zu einer rechtmessigen Beschreibung gehören, darumb beschaffen : item, von dem auch new erfundenen Lande Virginia : jetzund auffs newe ubersehen, unnd mit einem Zusatz vermehret, nemlich, wie es umb die Religion in Perser unnd Mohrenland, unter Priester Johan bewand sey. Jn Druck verfertiget / durch MATTHAEVM DRESSERVM D. der Sprachen vnd Historien Professorn. Leipzig : Frantz Schnellboltz, typis haeredum Beyeri, 1598. Quarto, quarter vellum over papered boards, gilt-lettered title label to spine; front pastedown with bookplate of The Explorer s Club, and book label of H. P. Kraus; pp. [xii], 297; main title in red and black, divisional title at p. 171, colophon on p. 297 is dated 1597; Gothic black-letter type printed on brown paper; internally clean, and excellent copy. Containing the first German edition of Hariot s Virginia . This is the second issue identical in every respect to the first issue of 1597, except for the date 1598 on the main title of the first edition of an important travelogue compiled by the humanist historian Matthaeus Dresser (1536-1607). The main part of this work is an abridged translation of the Historia de las cosas mas notables, ritos, y costumbres, del gran reyno de la China of Juan González de Mendoza (Rome, 1585). Appended to this report on China is an account of Virginia (pp. 171-231), which is a translation into German by Christophorus P. of A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia (1588), by Thom

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