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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 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.

Author/creator Smith, John, 1580-1631
Format Electronic and Book
Publication InfoLondon : Printed by I.D. and I.H. for Michael Sparkes, 1624.
Description12 unnumbered pages, 248 (i.e., 241) pages, 5 unnumbered leaves of plates (some folded) : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 30 cm
Supplemental Content Gale, Sabin Americana: History of the Americas, 1500-1926
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General note"The engraved title of 1624 is followed by the type-printed of 1625 ..."--Sabin, J. Bibliotheca Americana, no. 82825.
General note"... [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. 409.
General noteErrata slip attached to p. 248.
General noteReproduction of original from Huntington Library.
General noteSabin no. 82825.
Citation/References note RLIN, CTRG00-B252
Reproduction noteElectronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thomson Gale, 2005. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.

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