Publisher's Synopsis
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.Author: John SmithPublisher: Gale, Sabin Americana Description: Based on Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500--1926 contains a collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works about the Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s. Sabin Americana is rich in original accounts of discovery and exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the U.S. Civil War and other military actions, Native Americans, slavery and abolition, religious history and more.Sabin Americana offers an up-close perspective on life in the western hemisphere, encompassing the arrival of the Europeans on the shores of North America in the late 15th century to the first decades of the 20th century. Covering a span of over 400 years in North, Central and South America as well as the Caribbean, this collection highlights the society, politics, religious beliefs, culture, contemporary opinions and momentous events of the time. It provides access to documents from an assortment of genres, sermons, political tracts, newspapers, books, pamphlets, maps, legislation, literature and more.Now for the first time, these high-quality digital scans of original works are available via print-on-demand, making them readily accessible to libraries, students, independent scholars, and readers of all ages.++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++SourceLibrary: Huntington LibraryDocumentID: SABCP03198400CollectionID: CTRG00-B213PublicationDate: 16270101SourceBibCitation: Selected Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to AmericaNotes: Title page "graven by Iohn Barra." Other engravings by William Hole, and Simon van de Pass. "There is no sheet O, pp. 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. ... That I.D. was John Dawson is proved by the fact that a device known to be his appears on the type-printed title of the 1625 issue. I.H. was undoubtedly John Haviland who printed Smith's Sea grammar, 1627, and his Advertisements, 1631 ..."--Sabin, J.Collation: [12], 248 (i.e., 241), [12], 60 p., [7] leaves of plates (some folded): ill., maps, ports.; 28 cm
