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A map of Virginia. : With a description of the covntrey, the commodities, people, government and religion. / VVritten by Captaine Smith, sometimes Governour of the countrey. Wherevnto is annexed the proceedings of those colonies, since their first departure from England, with the discourses, orations, and relations of the salvages, and the accidents that befell them in all their ijournies and discoveries. Taken faithfvlly as they were written out of the writings of Doctor Rvssell, Tho. Stvdley, Anas Todkill, Ieffra Abot, Richard Wiefin, Will. Phettiplace, Nathaniel Povvell, Richard Pots. And the relations of divers other diligent observers there present then, and now many of them in England. By VV.S.

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.
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
Department