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082 0 0 _a917.29042
130 0 _aDrake manuscript.
_lFrench & English.
245 1 4 _aThe Drake manuscript in the Pierpont Morgan Library :
_bHistoire naturelle des Indes /
_cpreface by Charles E. Pierce, Jr. ; foreword by Patrick O'Brian ; introduction by Verlyn Klinkenborg ; translations by Ruth S. Kraemer.
250 _a1st ed.
260 _aNew York :
_bNorton,
_cc1996.
300 _axxii, 272 p. :
_bcol. ill. ;
_c31 cm.
500 _a"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.
651 0 _aCaribbean Area
_xDescription and travel
_xEarly works to 1800.
650 0 _aNatural history
_zCaribbean Area
_xEarly works to 1800.
650 0 _aIndians
_xFirst contact with Europeans.
651 0 _aCaribbean Area
_xSocial life and customs
_xEarly works to 1800.
650 0 _aManuscripts, English
_zNew York (State)
_zNew York
_xFacsimile.
651 0 _aCaribbean Area
_xPictorial works.
710 2 _aPierpont Morgan Library.
920 _a**LC HAS REQ'D # OF SHELF COPIES**
999 _c22825
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