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Painter, Illustrator, b. 1550 - d. 1593

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      • White Woodcuts of Native Americans
        Apr. 22, 2023

        White Woodcuts of Native Americans

        Est: $1,200 - $1,800

        WHITE, John (c. 1539 - c. 1593). [Pair of Figures from Virginia, Tabs, 3 & 4] Woodcuts. Frankfurt: De Bry, 1590. 13 1/4" x 9 5/8" sheet & 12 3/8" x 9 3/8" sheet. In 1585 White had been commissioned to "draw to life" the inhabitants of the New World and their surroundings. During White's time at Roanoke Island, he completed numerous watercolor drawings of the surrounding landscape and native peoples. These works are significant as they are the most informative illustrations of a Native American society of the Eastern seaboard, and predate the first body of "discovery voyage art" created in the late 18th century by the artists who sailed with Captain James Cook. They represent the sole-surviving visual record of the native inhabitants of America encountered by England's first settlers.

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      • John White Map Americae pars nunc Virginia
        Oct. 28, 2017

        John White Map Americae pars nunc Virginia

        Est: $12,000 - $15,000

        Americae pars nunc Virginia. John White (c.1540-c.1593). [Frankfurt am Main, 1590 or later]. Engraved map by Theodor de Bry. (State 3). 12 3/4 x 17 1/2 inches sheet. "One of the most significant cartographical milestones in colornial North American history...The most accurate map drawn in the sixteenth century of any part of that continent."(Burden) This map was included in part I of de Bry's Great Voyages to illustrate his edition of the text of Thomas Hariot's account of Virginia, following Raleigh's voyage in 1585. John White, the author of the map, accompanied Raleigh's expedition and served as governor of the ill-fated settlement at Roanoke. His series of drawings of native inhabitants is now at the British Library. White was the grandfather of Virginia Dare, the first child born to English colonists in America. The map shows the Chesapeake Bay to Cape Lookout, the Chowan, Roanoke and Neuse Rivers and the Outer Banks of North Carolina. Burden 76; Church 140; Cumming Southeast p.3.

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      • Stunning landmark map of Virginia by John White
        Sep. 17, 2016

        Stunning landmark map of Virginia by John White

        Est: $12,000 - $15,000

        Virginia. John White (1540-1593), engraved by Theodore De Bry. Engraved map. London, 1585. 12 3/4 x 17 1/2 inches. Published in Frankfurt in 1590, the map depicts the area from Chesapeake Bay to Cape Lookout. It contains the first printed use of the name Chesapeake, “Chesepiooc Sinus,” depicts the positions of the Indian villages in the area, and is adorned with the Royal Arms of England.

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      • Ellery Stream, Jackson Bay Jonathan White
        Dec. 09, 2010

        Ellery Stream, Jackson Bay Jonathan White

        Est: -

        Ellery Stream, Jackson Bay Jonathan White

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      • [WHITE, John (fl. 1585-1593), founder of the Dorchester Adventurers]. The Planters Plea. Or
        Jun. 21, 2005

        [WHITE, John (fl. 1585-1593), founder of the Dorchester Adventurers]. The Planters Plea. Or

        Est: $25,000 - $35,000

        [WHITE, John (fl. 1585-1593), founder of the Dorchester Adventurers]. The Planters Plea. Or the Grounds of Plantations Examined, And usuall Objections answered. Together with a manifestation of the causes mooving such as have lately undertaken a Plantation in New-England. London: William Jones, 1630. 4 o (169 x 125 mm). (Closely trimmed, cropping title at head, some page numbers and shoulder notes, lower corner of I2 torn away touching a few letters.) Modern brown half morocco. FIRST EDITION. "Of the author of this work, who projected the colony of Massachusetts, and was known as the 'Patriarch of Dorchester' (England), Edward Everett says: 'Like Robinson in reference to Plymouth, John White never set foot on the soil of Massachusetts, but he was the most efficient promoter of the undertaking, which resulted in the settlement not merely of our ancient town, but of the colony" (Church). In 1623, White obtained a patent from the New England Council for a new settlement at Cape Ann. While this did not succeed, Roger Conant led the remaining inhabitants of the settlement back to Massachusetts in 1626, founding the Bay Colony at Salem. The Massachusetts Bay Company obtained its own Charter in 1628, giving it independence from the New England Company. By 1630, the year White's book was published, migration peaked, with 14 ships and a thousand settlers arriving. Alexander Young reprinted White's book in his Chronicles of the First Planters of the Colonies of Massachusetts Bay (1846), stating that it is "an original contemporaneous history of the highest value, as it contains facts relating to the earliest attempts at settlement in Massachusetts Bay, which can be found nowhere else, and these facts furnished by persons who were themselves engaged as adventurers in these attempts" (quoted in Church). White approaches the colonization of the new world as a providential warrant, so that men man may "replenish the earth, and to subdue it" (p. 1). England is the proper nation "able and fit to send out Colonies" due to its "overflowing multitudes," many of whom are unemployed and therefore idle (p. 17ff), and White notes that the abundance of natural resources in New England make it the most fit location for a colony. SCARCE: this is the only copy to appear in American Book Prices Current for at least thirty years. Alden & Landis 630/216; Church 418; JCP II, p. 235; Kress S.241; Sabin 103396; STC 25399; Vail 80.

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