Research Catalog

Title

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 sometymes governour in those countryes & admirall of New England.

Author

Smith, John, 1580-1631.

Publication

London, Printed by I.D. and I.H. for E. Blackmore, 1632.

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Details

Description

7 p. l., 96, 105-248 p. 2 fold. pl., 2 port., 2 fold. maps.; 27.5 cm.

Donor/Sponsor

• Lawrence H. Slaughter Collection ; 3055.
• National Endowment for the Humanities Grant for Access to Early Maps of the Middle Atlantic Seaboard.

Subjects

• New England > History > Colonial period
• Bermuda Islands > History
• Virginia > History > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
• Indians of North America > Virginia
• Virginia > Description and travel

Note

• Engraved t.-p., by John Barra, with ports. of Elizabeth, James, and "Carolvs rex", and map of the coast from Me. to N.C.
• The portraits of the Duchess of Richmond and of Matoaka are 18th century copies (cf. Sabin, v. 20, p. 232-233) of those engraved by Willem and Simon van de Passe.

Call Number

*KC+ 1632 (Smith, J. Generall historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer isles)

LCCN

04007998

OCLC

5877497

Author

Smith, John, 1580-1631.

Title

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 sometymes governour in those countryes & admirall of New England.

Imprint

London, Printed by I.D. and I.H. for E. Blackmore, 1632.

Local Note

Copy 1: With plate of Ould Virginia in fourth and of the Summer Ils in third state, with map of Virginia in tenth and of New England in eighth state.

Copy 1: Imperfect: t.-p. mutilated and repaired. Another copy of the t.-p., with different mutilations, laid in.

Copy 1: Bound in three-fourths brown morocco, with marbled paper sides.

Copy 2: Engraved t.-p. has the head of "Carolvs rex" re-engraved, with a long, wavy moustache.

Copy 2: With plate of the Duchess of Richmond engraved by Willem, that of Matoaka by Simon, van de Passe. With the 18th century copies of the portraits bound in.

Copy 2: Imperfect: portraits inlaid.

Copy 2: With bookplate of Sir Thomas Thynne, first viscount Weymouth.

Copy 2: Bound in dark blue morocco.

Copy 3: With the re-engraved head of "Carolvs rex" on t.-p.

Copy 3: With plate of Ould Virginia in fourth and of the Summer Ils in Third state, with map of Virginia in tenth and of New England in eighth state.

Copy 3: Both portraits are the 18th century copies.

Copy 3: Bound in black straight-grained morocco, gilt.

Copy 4: With the re-engraved head of "Carolvs rex" on t.-p.

Copy 4: With plate of Ould Virginia in third and of the Summer Ils in first state, with map of Virginia in ninth and of New England in fourth state, all presumably supplied from earlier editions.

Copy 4: With the 18th century copy of the portrait of the Duchess of Richmond. Without portrait of Matoaka.

Copy 4: Bound in tan calf; rebacked.

Map Div. copy: Imperfect: 1 p. l., 2 fold. pl., 2 port., 2 fold. maps, and p. 247-248 lacking.

Map Div. copy: Autographs in ink on t.p.: John [?] [and] [?] Walpole, 1725.

Map Div. copy: Lawrence H. Slaughter Collection.

Map Div. copy: National Endowment for the Humanities Grant for Access to Early Maps of the Middle Atlantic Seaboard.

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Research Call Number

*KC+ 1632 (Smith, J. Generall historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer isles)

Map Div. 97-6335 [LHS 3055; atlas cases]