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 Captaine Iohn Smith, sometymes governour in those countryes & admirall of New England.
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TextPublication details: London : Printed by I. D[awson] and I. [Haviland] for Michael Sparkes, 1624.Description: [14], 96, 105-248 p., [6] leaves of plates (4 folded) : ill., maps, ports. ; 30 cm. (fol.)Subject(s): LOC classification: - F229 .S61
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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.
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STC (2nd ed.) 22790
Thacher, II, p. 47 (Americana)
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