[Rarebooks] FS: Americana: Robert Beverley's Histoire des Virginie (1708) (Early American settlers, Native American tribes)

[Ezra Tishman]

Ezra from Aardvark today offers this classic piece of Americana, about which Howes wrote: "After John
Smith, the. first account of this colony, the first one penned by a native and the best contemporary record of its aboriginal
tribes and of the life of its early settlers."


IN FRENCH. 12mo. Contemporary, full calf (15.08 cm. x 9.50 cm.). Tooled spine and top headband (worn). Four
raised bands/five compartments. Some scribbles and initials to front pastedown, and a small, cutout piece of laid bond tipped
onto front free endpaper, bearing the name of Daniel Grinnan, Richmond, Virginia. The first translation into French of the
1705 English edition. Previous owner's manuscript signature, place(?) and date to title page (in red and back) adjacent to large
decorative vignette to title page. Upside down stamp within oval of "Hannov. Societ. Bibliothek to verso of title page. Light
toning to pages throughout, but not to obscure. 432 pp., followed by a fold-out chart, and a complete "Table des Matieres"
The third part (of four parts) "contains a remarkable study of the domestic and institutional life of the Indians". "After John
Smith, the. first account of this colony, the first one penned by a native and the best contemporary record of its aboriginal
tribes and of the life of its early settlers. [Howes B-410]. (Sabin 5116). Very Good. Leather-bound. (#84810) $550
Robert Beverley was "the only native Virginia author before the Nineteenth-century to offer illustrations of the native
inhabitants of Virginia to European, and later American audiences. John White served as artist on Sir Walter Raleigh's first
expedition to the area in 1585, and created a series of paintings on Native Virginian life; these were European-created
images, and not based on any actual observations amongst Virginia Indians. (paraphrased from Virginia Magazine of History
& Biography, 2003, Vol. III, No. 1 [ed. Ruggles[)
Fourteen full-page engravings by John White, including frontis.
Note: There is some bibliographic controversy as to which of the two French editions (this one, published in Amsterdam, or the other,
published in Orleans) is the first French appearance. Chicken or egg, some scholars consider them interchangeable.


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