SOTO, Hernando de (ca 1496-1542)]. Virginia richly valued, by the description of the maine land of Florida, her next neighbour: Out of the four yeeres continuall travel and discoverie, for above one thousand miles East and West, of Done Ferdinando de Soto, and sixe hundred able men in his companie . Translated by Richard Hakluyt (ca 1552-1616). London: Printed by Felix Kyngston for Mathew Lownes, 1609.
SOTO, Hernando de (ca 1496-1542)]. Virginia richly valued, by the description of the maine land of Florida, her next neighbour: Out of the four yeeres continuall travel and discoverie, for above one thousand miles East and West, of Done Ferdinando de Soto, and sixe hundred able men in his companie . Translated by Richard Hakluyt (ca 1552-1616). London: Printed by Felix Kyngston for Mathew Lownes, 1609. 4 o (170 x 126 mm). (Lower corners of first four and final four leaves renewed, a few headlines, catchwords and shoulder notes shaved.) Red morocco gilt, edges gilt, by Bedford (front free endpaper and flyleaves detached). Provenance : John Carter Brown Library (ink stamp on A2, note by L.C. Wroth on front free endpaper stating this duplicate was sold 17 Feb. 1942, typed letter signed to Boies Penrose laid-in); Boies Penrose (both bookplates; his sale part II, Sotheby's London, 9 November 1971, lot 234, illustrated). FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. This is the companion tract to Lescarbot's Nova Francia of the same year (see lot 322). The original text, Relaçlam verdadeira ..., was printed in 1557 at Evora, Portugal and gives the best account of de Soto's expedition to Florida. "It was translated by Hakluyt with a view of inducing settlers to go out to the new colony of Virginia. This translation is among the rarest of Hakluyt's works. It is usually cited in English as Narrative of the Gentleman of Elvas ; but just who the 'gentleman of Elvas' was is uncertain; by some he is thought to have been Alvaro Fernandez, by others Hernando de Soto himself" (Church). VERY RARE: according to American Book Prices Current , the last copy to appear at auction, with a soiled title-page and stained throughout, was sold at Sotheby's London, 25 June 1987, lot 417. Alden & Landis 609/131; Church 337; JCB (3) II:68; Sabin 24896; STC 22938; Vail Frontier 13.
SOTO, Hernando de (ca 1496-1542)]. Virginia richly valued, by the description of the maine land of Florida, her next neighbour: Out of the four yeeres continuall travel and discoverie, for above one thousand miles East and West, of Done Ferdinando de Soto, and sixe hundred able men in his companie . Translated by Richard Hakluyt (ca 1552-1616). London: Printed by Felix Kyngston for Mathew Lownes, 1609.
SOTO, Hernando de (ca 1496-1542)]. Virginia richly valued, by the description of the maine land of Florida, her next neighbour: Out of the four yeeres continuall travel and discoverie, for above one thousand miles East and West, of Done Ferdinando de Soto, and sixe hundred able men in his companie . Translated by Richard Hakluyt (ca 1552-1616). London: Printed by Felix Kyngston for Mathew Lownes, 1609. 4 o (170 x 126 mm). (Lower corners of first four and final four leaves renewed, a few headlines, catchwords and shoulder notes shaved.) Red morocco gilt, edges gilt, by Bedford (front free endpaper and flyleaves detached). Provenance : John Carter Brown Library (ink stamp on A2, note by L.C. Wroth on front free endpaper stating this duplicate was sold 17 Feb. 1942, typed letter signed to Boies Penrose laid-in); Boies Penrose (both bookplates; his sale part II, Sotheby's London, 9 November 1971, lot 234, illustrated). FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. This is the companion tract to Lescarbot's Nova Francia of the same year (see lot 322). The original text, Relaçlam verdadeira ..., was printed in 1557 at Evora, Portugal and gives the best account of de Soto's expedition to Florida. "It was translated by Hakluyt with a view of inducing settlers to go out to the new colony of Virginia. This translation is among the rarest of Hakluyt's works. It is usually cited in English as Narrative of the Gentleman of Elvas ; but just who the 'gentleman of Elvas' was is uncertain; by some he is thought to have been Alvaro Fernandez, by others Hernando de Soto himself" (Church). VERY RARE: according to American Book Prices Current , the last copy to appear at auction, with a soiled title-page and stained throughout, was sold at Sotheby's London, 25 June 1987, lot 417. Alden & Landis 609/131; Church 337; JCB (3) II:68; Sabin 24896; STC 22938; Vail Frontier 13.
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