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[n]o 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 John Smith, John Smith, Samuel Purchas, and William Symonds
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History, Description and travel, Early works to 1800, Indians of North America, Navigation, Voyages and travels, Travel, Indiens d'Amérique, Découverte et exploration, Histoire, Glossaries, vocabularies, Powhatan language, Indian linguistics, Constitutional history, Sources, Utah, Constitutional law, Colonial period, Silver questionPeople
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Engraved t.p.
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, 218-219; also Pilling's Bibliography of the Algonquian languages, 1891, p. 470-472.
In regard to the probable cause of the hiatus in the paging (p. 97-104) see Edward Arber's ed. of Smith's Works, 1894, p. 490.
Signatures: pi1 )(² A-N⁴ P-2I⁴.
LC copy contains appended leaf with errata slip.
STC (2nd ed.) 22790
Thacher, II, p. 47 (Americana)
With presentation letter of William B. Franklin mounted on front endleaf.
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