THE TRUE TRAVELS, ADVENTURES AND OBSERVATIONS OF CAPTAINE JOHN SMITH IN EUROPE, ASIA, AFRICKE, AND AMERICA: BEGINNING ABOUT THE YEERE 1593, AND CONTINUED TO THIS PRESENT 1629. In Two Volumes.
Richmond: The Franklin Press. 1819. 247 & xi,282pp., with 2 frontis portraits, 1 folding map, 3 folding plates (one trimmed to the margin), paper is toned, rebacked in new tan linen over the publishers original boards (one board has been replaced), new leather labels and endpapers, a good working set. Item #43373
The first edition printed in America. Title of Volume Two: THE GENERALL HISTORIE OF VIRGINIA, NEW-ENGLAND, AND THE SUMMER ILES, WITH THE NAMES OF THE ADVENTURERS, PLANTERS, AND GOVERNOURS FROM THEIR FIRST BEGINNING, AN. 1584. TO THIS PRESENT 1626. WITH THE PROCEEDINGS OF THOSE SEVERALL COLONIES AND THE ACCIDENTS THAT BEFELL THEM IN ALL THEIR IOURNYES AND DISCOVERIES. ALSO THE MAPS AND DESCRIPTIONS OF THOSE COUNTRIES THEIR COMMODITIES, PEOPLE, GOVERNMENT, CUSTOMES, AND RELIGION YET KNOWNE. DIVIDED INTO SIXE BOOKES
SABIN 82852. SWEM 17083. Printing in the Mind of Man 124.
Price: $750.00