TY  - BOOK
ED  - Pierpont Morgan Library.
TI  - The Drake manuscript in the Pierpont Morgan Library: Histoire naturelle des Indes 
SN  - 0233990097
AV  - 200 F 2171 D762d 1996
U1  - 917.29042 
PY  - 1996///
CY  - New York
PB  - Norton
KW  - Natural history
KW  - Caribbean Area
KW  - Early works to 1800
KW  - Indians
KW  - First contact with Europeans
KW  - Manuscripts, English
KW  - New York (State)
KW  - New York
KW  - Facsimile
KW  - Description and travel
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - Pictorial works
N1  - "Though this work is often called the Drake manuscript, it bears on its title page (inserted when it was bound) the name Histoire naturelle des Indes -- The natural history of the Indies. That is an accurate account of its contents, for the volume contains 199 separate images of West Indian plants, animals and Indian life with accompanying captions written in late sixteenth-century French"--Introduction
ER  -