(AMERICAN INDIANS PRINTS) Scrapbook of cropped plates from

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(AMERICAN INDIANS--PRINTS.) Scrapbook of cropped plates from various early editions of de Bry and elsewhere. 44 plates, each spot-mounted or laid down in a 4to buckram scrapbook; inscription of David McNeely Stauffer (author of American Engravers upon Copper and Steel) of Yonkers, NY on front free endpaper. Frankfurt, 1591-1623 and undated

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The first 2 plates include partial German text; the next 8 images are cropped with only the headers in Latin and the plate numbers; and the next 22 are cropped without any text at all. Also included are illustrated title pages for de Bry's Americae Pars Quarta (Frankfurt, 1594), Brevis Narratio Eorum Quae in Florida (Frankfurt, 1591), and Additamentum, oder anhang des neundten Theils Americae (Frankfurt, 1602), followed by a somewhat random assortment of 9 later plates of Niagara Falls and other subjects.