LE MOYNE, Jacques (1533-1588) - De BRY, Theodore (1528-1598]. Brevis narratio eorum quae in Florida Americae Provi(n)cia Gallis acciderunt. Anno M.D. LXIII. quae est secunda pars Americae. Frankfurt: Johannes Wechel for Theodore de Bry, 1591. Small folio ( 325 x 235 mm). [5], [1 blank], 30 pp., 42 leaves, [17] pp., including final errata leaf. Two engraved titles, large folding engraved map of Florida, 42 fine half-page engravings after Jacques Le Moyne, each with letterpress captions (engraved title to text mounted and with a few restored tears, engraved title to engravings cropped at foot, some mostly marginal dampstaining and softening of paper, fol. xxiii creased, lap of seated queen on plate 37 scribbled over by a modest reader). Later blind-stamped calf to a 16th-century style. First edition, and an excellent copy of Part II of the de Bry Grands Voyages, containing Jacques Le Moyne's narrative of the second French colonial attempt in North America, the ill-fated expedition to Florida under Jean Ribault and René Goulaine de Laudonnière. First published in 1588 (de Laudonnière's own account had appeared in 1586), this is the first illustrated edition. Despite the small alterations that de Bry certainly made to backgrounds and a few details, these engravings constitute an invaluable record of native American life at the time of the earliest encounters with Europeans. In spite of its inaccuracies (the northern coastline is notably shown too far east), the map of Florida exercised considerable influence on cartographers during the following century. Much of the information on the map is derived from Indian sources, and many of the names were changed after the arrival of the English. "Several lakes are shown including what is thought to be a representation of the sea of Verrazzano, an apocryphal route through to Asia. However, with the nearby presence of a large waterfall, many believing it to represent Indian tales of Niagara Falls, it could in fact be the Great Lakes" (Burden). Church 145; Burden 79.