SMITH, John (1580-1631). A Map of Virginia. With a description of the Country, the Commodities, People, Government and Religion … Whereunto is Annexed the proceedings of those Colonies, since their first departure from England. Oxford: printed by Joseph Barnes, 1612.
SMITH, John (1580-1631). A Map of Virginia. With a description of the Country, the Commodities, People, Government and Religion … Whereunto is Annexed the proceedings of those Colonies, since their first departure from England. Oxford: printed by Joseph Barnes, 1612.] “Long hath the world longed, but to be truly satisfied what Virginia is….” (preface). A great American rarity: the first edition of the highly important second published account of John Smith’s experiences in Virginia. The last copy sold at auction was the Boies Penrose copy, offered in 1971. Smith’s expedition, under the sponsorship of the Virginia Company, reached the coast of Virginia in late April, 1607 and quickly established the colony at Jamestown. The text of this volume chronicles the 16 months he spent exploring the region, traveling along the bays and rivers of the mid-Atlantic. He described local waterways and their navigability, the woodland and wildlife, resident Indians and their customs, mentions the fateful tobacco leaf, etc. The second part of this work (here bound first) is William Symonds’ The Proceedings of the English Colonie in Virginia which collects his own experiences and those of other settlers. Symonds includes a roster of all the settlers and details of conflicts and other encounters with the native Indians. Smith’s Virginia was published in Oxford rather than London likely due to the suppressing influence of the Virginia Company over the Stationers’ Company of London. The Virginia Company would not have wanted these details published but thankfully Smith found supporters at Oxford. These arranged for Joseph Barnes to print Smith's work on the single hand-press typically used for theological and scholarly tracts. Arents 3275; Church 359; European-Americana 612/119; Pilling Algonquian p.470; Sabin 82832; Vail 33. 2 parts in 1 volume, quarto (166 x 120mm). Part 2 with separate title and pagination (lacking the map; the first 3 leaves in Smith’s Part 1, and D3 and P1 in Part 2 are supplied in facsimile; part 2 title laid down and re-hinged; some headlines, shoulder-notes, catch-words and signature marks trimmed). Modern calf in period style, stamped in blind, red morocco spine label.
SMITH, John (1580-1631). A Map of Virginia. With a description of the Country, the Commodities, People, Government and Religion … Whereunto is Annexed the proceedings of those Colonies, since their first departure from England. Oxford: printed by Joseph Barnes, 1612.
SMITH, John (1580-1631). A Map of Virginia. With a description of the Country, the Commodities, People, Government and Religion … Whereunto is Annexed the proceedings of those Colonies, since their first departure from England. Oxford: printed by Joseph Barnes, 1612.] “Long hath the world longed, but to be truly satisfied what Virginia is….” (preface). A great American rarity: the first edition of the highly important second published account of John Smith’s experiences in Virginia. The last copy sold at auction was the Boies Penrose copy, offered in 1971. Smith’s expedition, under the sponsorship of the Virginia Company, reached the coast of Virginia in late April, 1607 and quickly established the colony at Jamestown. The text of this volume chronicles the 16 months he spent exploring the region, traveling along the bays and rivers of the mid-Atlantic. He described local waterways and their navigability, the woodland and wildlife, resident Indians and their customs, mentions the fateful tobacco leaf, etc. The second part of this work (here bound first) is William Symonds’ The Proceedings of the English Colonie in Virginia which collects his own experiences and those of other settlers. Symonds includes a roster of all the settlers and details of conflicts and other encounters with the native Indians. Smith’s Virginia was published in Oxford rather than London likely due to the suppressing influence of the Virginia Company over the Stationers’ Company of London. The Virginia Company would not have wanted these details published but thankfully Smith found supporters at Oxford. These arranged for Joseph Barnes to print Smith's work on the single hand-press typically used for theological and scholarly tracts. Arents 3275; Church 359; European-Americana 612/119; Pilling Algonquian p.470; Sabin 82832; Vail 33. 2 parts in 1 volume, quarto (166 x 120mm). Part 2 with separate title and pagination (lacking the map; the first 3 leaves in Smith’s Part 1, and D3 and P1 in Part 2 are supplied in facsimile; part 2 title laid down and re-hinged; some headlines, shoulder-notes, catch-words and signature marks trimmed). Modern calf in period style, stamped in blind, red morocco spine label.
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