CollectionsThe 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...
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...
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.
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