On Wednesday, November 29, at 7 P.M., The Mariners’ Museum’s Friends of the Library will host a presentation in the Museum’s Huntington Room featuring two representatives from the Virginia Council on Indians and three internationally renowned scholars who will discuss different aspects of Theodor de Bry’s “A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia.” Published in 1590, this book is the earliest illustrated history of Virginia. The Mariners’ Museum Library holds an original, hand-colored copy of De Bry’s rare book that was recently preserved by the Northeast Document Conservation Center. A facsimile edition of this work will be co-published by the Museum and the University of Virginia Press in the Spring of 2007. The presentation is free for Friends of the Library, $10 for Museum members and $20 for non-members. Visit the site for more information.

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