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THE GENERALL HISTORIE OF Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Ifles: with the names of the Adventurers, Planters, and Governours from their firft beginning. An.o. 1584. to this prefent 1624.

Date1624

Cartographer Captain John Smith (1580-1631)

Publisher Michael Sparkes

Engraver John Barra (ca. 1574 - 1634)

OriginEngland, London

MediumLetterpress; Line engraving; rebound leather binding.

DimensionsOH: 11 1/4" x OW: 8 3/4" x OD: 1 1/8"

Credit LineGift of Mr. and Mrs. Richard F. Barry, III, Mr. and Mrs. Macon F. Brock, Mr. and Mrs. David R. Goode, Mr. and Mrs. Conrad M. Hall, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas G. Johnson, Jr., Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Moorman, IV, and Mr. and Mrs. Richard D. Roberts.

Object number2017-199

DescriptionTitle page reads: THE GENERALL HISTORIE/ OF/ Virginia, New-England, and the Summer/ Ifles: with the names of the Adventurers,/ Planters, and Governours from their/ firft beginning. An.o. 1584. to this/ prefent 1624./ WITH THE PROCEDINGS OF THOSE SEVERALS COLONIES/ and the Accidents that befell them in all their/ Journyes and Difscoveries./ Alfo the Maps and Defcriptions of all thofe/ Countryes, their Commodities, people,/ Government, Cuftome, and Religion/ yet knowne./ DIVIDED INTO SIXE BOOKES./ By Captaine IOHN SMTH sometymes Governour/ in those Countryes & Admirall/ of NEW ENGLAND./ LONDON/ Printed by I.D. and/ I.H. for Michael/ Sparkes./ 1624.
Label TextThis book, written by John Smith, is one of the earliest accounts of English settlement in North America, and it became the main source of English knowledge about America during that period of early colonization. Compiled from Smith's firsthand experience as well as reports from various contacts, this Generall Historie contains accounts of the establishment of Jamestowne, the arrival of the Mayflower settlers, the surveying of the coasts of Virginia and New England, and the interactions between the English settlers and local indigenous peoples.

Contains the Following:
"The portraiture of the illustreous [sic] Princeße Frances Duchess of Richmond/ and Lenox daugter [sic] pf Thomas Ld. Howard of Bindon Sonne of Thomas Duke of Norfok./ whose mother was Elisabeth daughter of Edward Duke of Buckingham." (print)

"Matoaks als Rebecka daughter to the mighty Prince/ Powhatan Emperour of Attanoughkomouck als virginia/ converted and baptized in the Christian faith, and/ wife to the wor(??) Mr. Joh Rolff." (print)

(Pull out plate with 6 prints and 1 small map)
Map: "A description of part of the ad-/ventures of Cap:Smith in Virginia." "Graven and estracted out of (?) generall history of Virginia, New England, and Somer Iles, by Robert Vaughan."

"VIRGINIA" "Discovered and Discribed [sic] by Captain John Smith/ Graven by William Hole 1606."

(Pull out plate of map surrounded by detail illustrations of structures/fortifications)
Map: "The Summer Ils."

"New England." "Observed and described by Captayn [sic] John Smith. 1614."

This copy published in William C. Wooldridge, Mapping Virginia: From the Age of Exploration to the Civil War (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2012), Map 27 a-c.