The New World the First Pictures of America by Stefan Lorant First Edition 1946 Duell Sloan Pearce Publishing rare history books

This is a very good large coffee table style books with both accompanying dust jacket and slipcase as issued. 1946 First Edition Duell Sloan Pearce Publishing, New York. This copy is very good inside and out. The inside pages are very good and clean. The binding is tight and straight, bound with fine sewn binding for durability and aesthetics. Map illustrated endpapers front and back. Brown hardcover boards under jacket are also very good with only hints of shelf wear. The accompanying dust jacket is very good, only light shelf wear and remarkably there was a tissue jacket under original jacket when issued and this copy still has the tissue jacket under the original as issued. The accompanying slipcase is very good and solid but does show shelf wear corners/edges. The original paste down title/author/publisher is present on slipcase. Quarto book size, larger coffee table style, 9.5" x 12.5' with 292 pages including index.

The New World The First Pictures of America is subtitled Made by John White and Jacques Le Moyne and Engraved by Theodore De Bry with Contemporary Narratives of the Huguenot Settlement in Florida 1562-1565 And The Virginia Colonies 1585-1590. It has been edited by Stefan Lorant.
The theme of the book is the vast virgin forest of North America and the attempt by the French and English to settle there The illustrations are exquisite. There are 64 water colors reproduced in their original colors. They were drawn by John White. There are sketches of the Indians, birds, flowers, and more. 23 of the water colors were engraved by Theodore De Bry, the Flemish artist.

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