(CANADA) A Letter from Captaine Edward Wynne of Avalon in

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(CANADA.) A Letter from Captaine Edward Wynne . . . of Avalon in Newfound-Land [caption title]. 15 pages, an appendix abstracted from Richard Whitbourne's 107-page "A Discourse and Discovery of New-Found-Land." 4to, disbound; minor wear and soiling, final leaf in facsimile. [London: Felix Kingston, 1622]

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A fragment from the most important early history of Newfoundland, containing the text of four letters sent from Ferryland, a small colony on Newfoundland's Avalon peninsula founded by Sir George Calvert before he moved on to Baltimore, and abandoned in 1696. These letters give "the only account of Avalon"--Church 397. Sabin 103331.