Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Virginia richly valued, by the description of the maine land of Florida, her next neighbour : out of the foure yeeres continuall trauell and discouerie, for aboue one thousand miles east and west, of Don Ferdinando de Soto, and sixe hundred able men in his companie : wherin are truly obserued the riches and fertilitie of those parts, abounding with things necessarie, pleasant, and profitable for the life: with the natures and dispositions of the inhabitants / written by a Portugall gentleman of Eluas, emploied in all the action, and translated out of Portuguese by Richard Haklvyt.

Accession number
PML 15595
Published
At London : Printed by Felix Kyngston for Matthew Lownes, and are to be sold at the signe of the Bishops head in Pauls Churchyard, 1609.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1907.
Notes
Attributed to Alvaro Fernandez or Hernando de Soto.
Headband on p. 1 with "I" and "R" at sides.
Headbands; woodcut, factotum, and criblé initials.
Translation of: Relaçam verdadeira dos trabalhos que ho governador dom Fernando de Souto ... / per hũ fidalgo Delvas.
Description
[8], 180 p. ; 18 cm
Binding
Modern linen over boards; previously in red morocco by Francis Bedford.
Classification
Department