The New World: The First Pictures of America

4to. Complete Title: The New World: The First Pictures of America. Made by John White and Jacques Le Moyne, w/ contemporary narratives of The Huguenot Settlement in Florida 1562-1565 and the Virginia Colony 1585-1590: 292 (1) pp, acknowledgments, notes on this book, list of b&w plates, The Text; bibliography, index. Edited and Annotated by Stefan Lorant: First Edition, 1946. Beige textured-cloth with dark reddish-brown title plates and gilt lettering to front board and spine, and illustrated endpapers. ``Most fascinating are the illustrations of the New World. There are 64 water colors---all reproduced in their original colors. They were drawn by the govenor of Raleigh's second colony on Roanoke Island, John White. His pictues made in 1585 are the earliest authentic representations of aboriginal life in North America. 23 of White's water colors were ingraved by Theodore De Bry, the Flemish artist, when he published a book on the English Colony in 1590. 43 additional pictures of his depict the life of the first Huguenot Colony on the shores of St. Johns' River, and were make after the paintings of Jacques Le Moyne, who came to the Florida Colony with Jean Ribaut. Thus this book offers five different books in one: White's water colors (Virginia); De Bry's engravings of Florida and Virginia; Hariot's report (Virginia); and Le Moyne eyewitness accounts."