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.
Author/creator |
Smith, John, 1580-1631 |
Format | Electronic and Book |
Publication Info | London : Printed by I.D. and I.H. for E. Blackmore, 1632. |
Description | 12 unnumbered pages, 248 (i.e., 241) pages, 4 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 | Engraved t.-p. |
General note | 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. |
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. 490. |
General note | Reproduction of original from Huntington Library. |
General note | Sabin no. 82829. |
Citation/References note | RLIN, CTRG00-B259 |
Reproduction note | Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thomson Gale, 2005. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements. |
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