01657cam a2200325 a 45000010006000000050017000060080041000230350003000640350012000670100014000790200015000930400018001080410016001260430021001420500027001630820014001901300041002042450227002452500012004722600032004843000040005165000412005566510065009686500058010336500043010916510066011346500065012006510037012657100029013022958420230410103630.0960620s1996    nyua          000 0 eng      a3998694  a96028780   a0233990097  aDLCcDLCdDLC1 aengfrehfre  acc-----an-us-ny14a200 F 2171bD762d 199600a917.290420 aDrake manuscript.lFrench & English.14aThe 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.  a1st ed.  aNew York :bNorton,cc1996.  axxii, 272 p. :bcol. ill. ;c31 cm.  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. 0aCaribbean AreaxDescription and travelxEarly works to 1800. 0aNatural historyzCaribbean AreaxEarly works to 1800. 0aIndiansxFirst contact with Europeans. 0aCaribbean AreaxSocial life and customsxEarly works to 1800. 0aManuscripts, EnglishzNew York (State)zNew YorkxFacsimile. 0aCaribbean AreaxPictorial works.2 aPierpont Morgan Library.