The generall historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles: with the names of the adventurers, planters, and governours from their first beginning. an[n]o 1584. to this present 1626. : With the procedings 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.
John Smith's 1632 folio history of Virginia, New England and the Summer Isles, printed in London for the bookseller Edward Blackmore, recounting English colonial ventures from 1584 to 1626. The pictures are woodcut decorative ornaments: a strapwork panel with a central figure, a repeating lozenge-and-scroll band, and a historiated initial B showing a seated figure with a bird and foliage, useful for period borders, initials and ornamental bands.
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