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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

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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

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[7] leaves, 96, 195-248 pages : 2 folded plates, 2 folded maps, 2 portraits ; 29 cm

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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 / by Captaine Iohn Smith sometymes governour in those countryes & admirall of New England. London : Printed by I. D. and L. H. for Edward Blackmore, Anno 1692.

Engraved title page.

This is the later of the two editions issued in 1632, as it has the re-engraved portrait of Charles I on the title page.

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 and p. 218-219, also Pilling's Bibliography of the Algonquian languages, 1891, p. 470-472.

For a statement of the probable cause ofthe hiatus in the paging (p. 97-104) see Edward Arber's edition of Smith's Works, 1884, p. 490.

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Smith, John, 1580-1631, “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,” Special Collections, John D. Rockefeller Jr. Library, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, accessed December 14, 2025, https://cwfjdrlsc.omeka.net/items/show/4156.