TY - BOOK ED - Pierpont Morgan Library. TI - Histoire naturelle des Indes: The Drake manuscript in the Pierpont Morgan Library SN - 0393039943 U1 - 508.729 20 PY - 1996/// CY - New York PB - Norton KW - Natural history KW - Caribbean Area KW - Early works to 1800 KW - Indians KW - First contact with Europeans KW - Manuscripts, English KW - New York (State) KW - New York KW - Facsimile KW - Description and travel KW - Social life and customs KW - Pictorial works N1 - "Though this work is often called the Drake manuscript, it bears on its title page (inserted when it was bound) the name Histoire naturelle des Indes -- The natural history of the Indies. That is an accurate account of its contents, for the volume contains 199 separate images of West Indian plants, animals and Indian life with accompanying captions written in late sixteenth-century French"--Introduction ER -