Accession number
PML 15911.1-2
Creator
Smith, John, 1580-1631.
Published
At Oxford, : Printed by Joseph Barnes, 1612.
Credit line
Purchased with the Irwin collection, 1900.
Notes
Indian vocabulary: 3d and 4th prelim. leaves (sig. *3-[*4]).
The map in this copy is in the "third state" as distinguished by Mr. Wilberforce Eames in identifying eight varieties known to him--Cf. Church catologue (Americana, v. 2, no. 359, p. 829).
The second part has also special t.-p.: The proceedings of the English colonie in Virginia since their first beginning from England in the yeare ... 1606 till ... 1612 ... By W.S. [i.e. William Symonds] Oxford, 1612.
Part 1, "To the hand", signed: T.A. [i.e. T. Abbay]; pt. 2, "To the reader", signed: T. Abbay.
Morgan copy map (PML 15911.2) shelved separately.
Watermark: Shield with crown, divided into quadrants, 3 lions and one empty quarter. Watermark (beta radiograph): Shield, crown, lions.
The map in this copy is in the "third state" as distinguished by Mr. Wilberforce Eames in identifying eight varieties known to him--Cf. Church catologue (Americana, v. 2, no. 359, p. 829).
The second part has also special t.-p.: The proceedings of the English colonie in Virginia since their first beginning from England in the yeare ... 1606 till ... 1612 ... By W.S. [i.e. William Symonds] Oxford, 1612.
Part 1, "To the hand", signed: T.A. [i.e. T. Abbay]; pt. 2, "To the reader", signed: T. Abbay.
Morgan copy map (PML 15911.2) shelved separately.
Watermark: Shield with crown, divided into quadrants, 3 lions and one empty quarter. Watermark (beta radiograph): Shield, crown, lions.
Description
[4] p. ., 39 p., 1 ., [2], 110 p. : fold. map. ; 19 x 14 cm
Provenance
Theodore Irwin, purchased from Bernard Quaritch, May 1890; Pierpont Morgan, purchased with the Irwin collection, 1900.
Binding
Red morocco by Francis Bedford.
Classification
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