The Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles: with the names of the Adventurers, Planters, and Governours from their first beginning an?: 1584. to this present 1626. With the Proceedings of those Severall Colonies and the Accidents that befell them in all their Journyes and Discoveries: Also the Maps and Descriptions of all those Countryes, their Commodities, people, Government, Customes, and Religion yet knowne. Divided into sixe Bookes. / By Captaine Iohn Smith sometymes Governour in those Countryes & Admirall of New England.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Smith, John, 1580-1631.

Contributor:

STC Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Robert Dechert Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians of North America--Virginia.

Indians of North America.

Virginia.

Virginia--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.

History.

Virginia--Description and travel.

New England--History.

New England.

Bermuda Islands--History.

Bermuda Islands.

Physical Description:

7 pages ., 96, 105-248 pages : 4 folded plates. ; 29 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Printed by I.D. and I.H. for E. Blackmore, 1632.

Notes:

Engraved t.-p.

In this copy, the plates face pages 21, 41, 169, and 203. The title is Church's 2d state.

Signed $1, )(?, A-N? [)(1,A?,)(2], P-Z?, Aa-Ii? 4to.

Signature "O" was not printed. See Church Cat. 402 at p.1624 supra.

Contemporary leather over boards. Blind stamped, panel on upper cover. Spine repaired top and bottom.

John Carter Brown (1919) II, p.245; Church Cat. 422; Sabin 82829 Sabin's 2d issue of this date).

For an account of the variations in the editions of the "Generall historie" see Norton's Literary gazette, new ser., v. 1, p. 134-135 and p. 218-219, also Pilling's Bibliography of the Algonquian languages, 1891, p. 470-472.

Cited in:

STC (2nd ed.) 22790d.

ESTC S111886

OCLC:

5877497