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 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
- Creator
- Smith, John, 1580-1631
- Form
- books
- Date
- 1632
- Language
- English
- Subject
- Indians of North America -- Virginia
- Indians of North America
- History
- Geographic Subject
- Virginia
- Virginia -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
- Virginia -- Description and travel
- New England -- History
- New England
- Bermuda Islands -- History
- Bermuda Islands
- Collection
- STC Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
- Robert Dechert Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
- Extent
- 7 pages ., 96, 105-248 pages : 4 folded plates. ; 29 cm
- Publisher
- Printed by I.D. and I.H. for E. Blackmore
- Notes
- Engraved t.-p.
- In this copy, the plates face pages 21, 41, 169, and 203. The title is Church's 2d state.
- Signed $1, )(?, A-N? [)(1,A?,)(2], P-Z?, Aa-Ii? 4to.
- Signature "O" was not printed. See Church Cat. 402 at p.1624 supra.
- Contemporary leather over boards. Blind stamped, panel on upper cover. Spine repaired top and bottom.
- John Carter Brown (1919) II, p.245; Church Cat. 422; Sabin 82829 Sabin's 2d issue of this date).
- 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.
- Related works
- Digital facsimile for browsing (Colenda): https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3sn01r2x
- Also listed in
- Penn Libraries Catalog
- Physical Location
- Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Dechert Collection, EC6 Sm615 624g 1632
- Rights
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
- Resource Type
- Text
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