The true travels, adventures, and observations of Captaine Iohn Smith, in Europe, Asia, Affrica, and America, from anno Domini 1593. to 1629. : His accidents and sea-fights in the straights; his service and stratagems of warre in Hungaria, Transilvania, Wallachia, and Moldavia, against the Turks, and Tartars ... After how he was taken prisoner by the Turks, sold for a slave ... and escaped ... Together with a continuation of his generall History of Virginia, Summer-Iles, New England, and their proceedings, since 1624. to this present 1629; as also of the new plantations of the great river of the Amazons, the iles of St. Christopher, Mevis, and Barbados in the West Indies. All written by actuall authours, whose names you shall finde along the history.
The true travels, adventures, and observations of Captaine Iohn Smith, in Europe, Asia, Affrica, and America, from anno Domini 1593. to 1629. : His accidents and sea-fights in the straights; his service and stratagems of warre in Hungaria, Transilvania, Wallachia, and Moldavia, against the Turks, and Tartars ... After how he was taken prisoner by the Turks, sold for a slave ... and escaped ... Together with a continuation of his generall History of Virginia, Summer-Iles, New England, and their proceedings, since 1624. to this present 1629; as also of the new plantations of the great river of the Amazons, the iles of St. Christopher, Mevis, and Barbados in the West Indies. All written by actuall authours, whose names you shall finde along the history.
Created/published
London : Printed by I[ohn]. H[aviland]. for Thomas Slater, and are to bee sold [by Michael Sparke] at the Blew Bible in Greene Arbour, 1630.
Printer's and publisher's names from STC. With a coat of arms on title page verso signed "T Cecill scul". Variant: with this illustration printed on a separate leaf. The plate has imprint: London printed by Iames Reeue. Stationers' register: Entered 29 August 1629. Signatures: A⁶ B-G⁴ H⁶.
ESTC staff note
Signatures from DFo.
Exhibited
Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 2004. Voices for Tolerance in an Age of Persecution (catalog entry 53)
Cited/described in
Pollard, A.W. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English books printed abroad, 1475-1640 (2nd ed.) (STC), 22796 Sabin, 82871 English short title catalogue (ESTC), S111906
HH193/6. With the plate in the 1st state. Ports. of John Smith and Pocahontas cut around and pasted to front free endpaper and back paste-down. Bound in full goatskin gilt. Provenance: armorial bookplate of Captain William Henry Smyth (motto: Vincere est vivere); Harmsworth copy
Call number
STC 22796 Copy 2 Bd.w. STC 22790c.2
Folger-specific note
HH193/4.2. With the plate in the second state. Bound with: Smith, John. The generall historie of Virginia, ... London, 1631 (shelf-mark STC 22790c.2); for binding and provenance see note for that copy
