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Thomas Hariot & John White's Usos y costumbres de los salvajes de Virginia, in a new edition by Sorbonne researcher prof. Jean-Paul Duviols.

Usos y costumbres de los salvajes de Virginia (Uses and Customs of the Savages of Virginia) is the first edition in Spanish of a fundamental work, published more than 4 Centuries ago, in Latin, German, French and English.
It is the oldest chronicle written by a pioneering traveller and illustrated by a painter also travelling with him, about the first territory of the future British Colonies in North America.
The mathematician Thomas Hariot, author of «A Brief and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia: of the Commodities and of the Nature and Manners of the Natural Inhabitants» was a member of the first British expedition commanded by Walter Raleigh, that settled in the island of Roanoke (1585).
The report, addressed to Queen Elizabeth, describes and highlights the natural qualities of the land to become the future colony of Virginia.
It also provides ethnographical data of extraordinary value about the Powathans (Iroquois) with whom Hariot lived for several months.
In this extraordinary edition published by Theodore de Bry appear the engravings that complement the text and whose author, John White, was also a member of the first colonial expedition.

These ethnographic documents were based on the original watercolors preserved at the London British Library. This edition, along «La colonia francesa de Florida (1562-1565)» (ISBN 978-1-934768-58-7) and «Verdadera Historia y Descripcion de un País» (ISBN 978-1-934768-69-3) completes the first three volumes of the «Great Voyages» series, published in Frankfurt by Theodore de Bry between 1590 and 1593..

Usos y Costumbres de los Salvajes de Virginia
Thomas Hariot & John White — Jean-Paul Duviols (ed.)
ISBN 978-1-934768-77-8 – SEPTEMBER 2014
Library of Congress Control Number: 2014950526
110 Pages - In Spanish - Full color
Printed edition: $76.00.-
Evaluation copy: $49.40.-

$ 171.00.- nett (plus shipping)