The generall historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles : with the names of the adventurers, planters, and governours from their first beginning ano 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.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Smith, John, 1580-1631.

Series:

Sabin Americana : History of the Americas, 1500-1926.

Sabin Americana : History of the Americas, 1500-1926

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians of North America--Virginia--Early works to 1800.

Indians of North America.

Virginia--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775--Early works to 1800.

Virginia.

Virginia--Description and travel--Early works to 1800.

New England--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775--Early works to 1800.

New England.

New England--Description and travel--Early works to 1800.

Bermuda Islands--History--Early works to 1800.

Bermuda Islands.

Bermuda Islands--Description and travel--Early works to 1800.

America--Discovery and exploration--British--Early works to 1800.

America.

Physical Description:

1 online resource ([12], 248 (i.e., 241) p., [4] leaves of plates (some folded) ) ill., maps, ports. ;

Other Title:

Generall historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles

Place of Publication:

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

Notes:

Engraved t.-p.

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.

"... [P]p. 97-104, the gap being the result of dividing the manuscript between two printers , I.D. and I.H., in order to hasten the work."--Sabin, J. Bibliotheca Americana, no. 82824. Also, for a statement of the probable cause of the hiatus in the paging (p. 97-104) see Edward Arber's edition of Smith's Works, 1884, p. 490.

Reproduction of original from Huntington Library.

Sabin no. 82829.

Cited in:

RLIN, CTRG00-B259

OCLC:

367776588