This is a fascinating history of the first French and English settlements on the eastern North American seaboards from eyewitness accounts, including those of John White and Le Moyne. Heavily illustrated in black & white and color with the water colors of John White (1585), de Bry's engravings of the Virginia and Florida settlements, and excerpts from Thomas Hariot's New Found Land of Virginia (1588). 292 pages, index, bibliography. First edition, Duell, Sloan & Pearce, NY. Hardbound in beige linen with gilt title and illustration on front cover.