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THE TRVE TRAVELS, ADVENTVRES AND OBSERVATIONS OF CAPTAINE IOHN SMITH, IN Europe, Asia, Africke, and America: BEGINNING ABOUT THE YEERE 1596, AND CONTINUED TO THIS PRESENT 1629.
Book 2017-202

THE TRVE TRAVELS, ADVENTVRES AND OBSERVATIONS OF CAPTAINE IOHN SMITH, IN Europe, Asia, Africke, and America: BEGINNING ABOUT THE YEERE 1596, AND CONTINUED TO THIS PRESENT 1629.

Date1819
Compiler John Holt Rice (1777 - 1831)
Publisher William W. Gray
Maker Anonymous
After work by John Smith (1580-1631)
OriginAmerica, Virginia, Richmond
MediumBlack and white line engraving
DimensionsOH: 8 5/8" x OW: 5 1/2" x OD: 1 3/4"
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 number2017-202
DescriptionOn title page:THE/ TRVE TRAVELS,/ ADVENTVRES/ AND/ OBSERVATIONS/ OF CAPTAINE IOHN SMITH,/ IN/ Europe, Asia, Africke, and America:/ BEGINNING/ ABOUT THE YEERE 1596, AND CONTINUED TO THIS PRESENT 1629./ VOL. I./ FROM THE LONDON EDITION OF 1629./ RICHMOND:/ Republished at the Franklin Press./ William W. Grey, Printer./ 1819.
Label TextThis is the 1819 reprint of John Smith's Travels compiled by Presbyterian clergyman and historian John Holt Rice of "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" It contains a print of the map: Virginia Discovered and Described by Captayn John Smith.

This copy is published in William C. Wooldridge, "Mapping Virginia: From the Age of Exploration to the Civil War" (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2012), Map 47.