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 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. By Captaine Iohn Smith sometymes governour in those countryes & admirall of New England.
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London: printed by I[ohn]. D[awson]. and I[ohn]. H[aviland]. for Michael Sparkes, 1624.
- Publication year
- 1624-1624
- ESTC No.
- S111882
- Grub Street ID
- 131648
- Description
- [14], 96, 105-248 p., [6] plates (4 folded) : ports., maps ; 2⁰
- Note
- Largely a collected edition of his "A description of New England", "A map of Virginia", "New Englands trials", and "A true relation of such occurrences and accidents of noate as hath hapned in Virginia since the first planting of that collony, which is now resident in the south part thereof, till the last returne from thence".
The title page is engraved and signed: Grauen by Iohn Barra.
"Dawson pr[inted]. )(?, A-N?. Haviland pr[inted]. P-Ii?"--STC.
Some copies have an errata slip.