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 1624. With the Procedings of those Severall Colonies and the Accide...

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Names
Smith, John (1580-1631) (Author)
Dates / Origin
Date Issued: 1624
Place: London
Publisher: Printed by I.D. and I.H. for Michael Sparkes
Library locations
Rare Book Division
Shelf locator: *KC+ 1624 (Smith, J. Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer isles)
Topics
Virginia -- Description and travel
Indians of North America -- Virginia
New England -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
Bermuda Islands -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
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Books
Notes
Content: Engraved t.-p. by John Barra, with ports. of Elizabeth, James, and "Carolvs princeps."
Citation/reference: 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, 218-219; also Pilling, Bibl. of the Algonquian languages, 1891, p. 470-472.
Citation/reference: In regard to the probable cause of the hiatus in the paging (p. 97-104) see Edward Arber's edition of Smith's Works, 1884, p. 490.
Content: With plates of Ould Virginia and the Summer Ils in third state, map Virginia in ninth and that of New England in eighth state.
Content: Without the portraits found in some copies.
Physical Description
Extent: 7 p. l., 96, 105-248 p. 2 fold. pl., 2 fold. maps. 27 cm.
Type of Resource
Still image
Identifiers
NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b14471801
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 215c8940-c604-012f-2631-58d385a7bc34
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x 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 1624. With the Procedings 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
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