Histoire Naturelle des Indes: The Drake Manuscript in the Pierpont Morgan Library by Drake, Sir Francis - 1996

Andre Deutsch. Unknown Binding. Very Good. . Light shelfwear. Pages clean and intact.

André Deutsch Ltd., London [1996]. Preface by Charles E. Pierce, Jr. Foreword by Patrick O'Brian. Introduction by Verlyn Klinkenborg. Translations by Ruth S. Kraemer. Drake was "known to have had French Huguenots on board, and from the hand of one or more of them came the watercolours and accompanying texts of an astonishingly beautiful manuscript, known as the Histoire naturelle des Indes and now held in the Pierpont Morgan Library in New York. This extraordinary manuscript, here presented in full-colour facsimile with English translations, is a haunting contemporary record of early European encounters with the Americas. This was not the virgin land Drake expected to find but one already shaped and overlaid by two sophisticated cultures, one European (Spanish), the other the now virtually extinct indigenous 'Indians'. Nearly two hundred paintings document plants, animals, fish and birds, as well as daily life and work among the inhabitants...' Hard Cover. xxii, 272 pages. Dust jacket; fine. stock#21469/h.

London: Andre Deutsch, (1996). First edition. Hardcover. Fine in fine jacket. xxii, [1], 272 pp.; quarto, original green cloth with gilt spine title, pictorial jacket. Introductory text is followed by the complete facsimile with circa 200 full color reproductions of the extraordinary late-sixteeenth-century Drake manuscript.

New York: W.W. Norton, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. Plate illustrations. Stated first edition of the first publication of Drake's manuscript of his explorations of the Indies, including Cuba and Puerto Rico. Foreword by Patrick O'Brian. Translations by Ruth S. Kraemer and preliminary words by Charles E. Pierce, Jr. and Verlyn Klinkenborg. A pristine copy, clean and unmarked.