3. Sold in the Stevens Sale (no. 2487), Boston, 1870, to a New York collector for $975. This was made perfect by despoiling another copy belonging to a public collection.
4. Harvard College Library; imperfect.
5. Grenville copy in the British Museum, bought at Frankfort for £100 in 1710 (?).
6. Bodleian Library.
7. Christie Miller’s collection, England.
8. Sir Thomas Phillipp’s collection, England; imperfect.
Rich in 1832, Catalogue, no. 71, had a copy which was made up, and which he priced at £21, but would have held it at £100 if perfect.
A photo-lithographic fac-simile edition of this English text was issued in New York from the Stevens copy in 1871-72, about 100 copies, which is worth $20. (Griswold Catalogue, no. 309.) The original may be worth $1000.
In the same year, 1590, De Bry also issued it in Latin, German, and French. Brunet gives three varieties of the original Latin issue, besides two varieties of a counterfeit one. The Carter-Brown Catalogue, i. 322, gives the collations of the five varieties slightly varying; cf. Sabin’s Dictionary, vol. iii.; Field’s Indian Bibliography, no. 653. There was a second (1600) and third edition of the German version (Carter-Brown Catalogue, pp. 354, 355; also for the French, p. 329). A German translation by Cristhopher P—— is also contained in Matthæus Dresser’s Historien von China, Halle, 1598; cf. Sabin’s Dictionary, v. 536; Carter-Brown Catalogue, i. 429.
De Bry engraved the drawings which White made at Roanoke, or rather a portion of them; for nearly three times as many as appear in De Bry, who copied only twenty-three, are now in the collection of drawings as preserved in the British Museum. What De Bry used may possibly have been copies of the originals, and in any case he gave an academic aspect to the more natural drawings as White made them. Henry Stevens secured the originals in 1865, and in a fire at Sotheby’s in June of that year they became saturated with water, so that a collection of offsets was left on the paper which was laid between them. Mr. Stevens sold the originals for £210, and the offsets for £26 5s., both to the British Museum, in 1866; and his letter offering them and telling the story is in his Bibliotheca Historica, 1870, cf. Amer. Antiq. Soc. Proc. Oct. 20, 1866. In the Sloane Collection are also near a hundred of White’s drawings; see E. E. Hale in Archæologia Americana, iv. 21. One section of Hariot’s paper, entitled “Of the nature and maners of the people,” appeared in the author’s original English in the Hakluyts of 1589 and 1600, and also in De Bry, who likewise added to his English Hariot a statement called, “The true pictures and fashions of the people in that parte of America now called Virginia,” etc. This statement is not in the printed Hakluyts, though it is said by De Bry to have been “translated out of Latin into English by Richard Hackluit.” It is there said of the pictures that they were “diligently collected and drowne by John White, who was sent thiter speciallye by Sir Walter Ralegh, 1585, also 1588, now cutt in copper, and first published by Theodore De Bry att his wone chardges.” De Bry’s engravings have often been reproduced by Montanus, Lafitau, Beverly, etc. Wyth’s, or White’s “Portraits to the Life and Manners of the Inhabitants,” following De Bry, with English text, was printed at New York in 1841.