early images of america in european print media. christopher columbus, de insulis nuper in mari...
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EARLY IMAGES OF AMERICA
IN EUROPEAN PRINT MEDIA
Christopher
Columbus,
De insulis nuper in
mari Indico
repertis. Bound
with Carlo Verardi,
In laudem...Ferdinand
i Hispaniar
um regis... Basel: Johann
Bergmann de Olpe,
1494.
Simon Grynaeus and Johann Huttich,Novis orbis regionum ac insularum veteribus incognitarum. Basle: Johann Hervagius, 1532
[detail from map].
Jean de Léry,Histoire d'un voyage fait en la terre du Bresil,
autrement dite Amerique... Geneva: For the heirs of Eustache Vignon, 1594.
Jan van der Straet and Theodor Galle (engraving), America. Ca. 1580.
The Tears of the Indians: Being an
historical and true account of
the cruel massacres and slaughters of above twenty
millions of innocent people; committed by the
Spaniards... London: J.C. for Nath. Brooke,
1656.
Thomas Hariot,
Admiranda narratio fida tamen, de
commodis et incolarum
ritibus Virginiae. Frankfurt: Theodor de Bry, 1590.
Jacques de Le Moyne/Theodor de Bry (engraving), Narrative of Le Moyne: an artist who accompanied
the French expedition to Florida under Laudonniere, 1564.
Christian Daniel Claus,A Primer, for the Use of the Mohawk Children...
London: C. Buckton, 1786.