(VIRGINIA) Smith John Captain The Generall Historie of Virgi

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(VIRGINIA.) Smith, John, Captain. The Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles. 4to, full red morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe; lacking illustrated title page and all 4 maps, provided in tasteful facsimile. London: Michael Sparkes, 1624

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first edition, issue unknown in absence of original title page and plates. "The first book which can claim specifically to be a history of English territory in the New World"--Downs, Famous American Books 2. Church 402; European Americana 624/152; Sabin 82824; Vail 68. Provenance: Offered by dealer J.E. Scopes of Albany, NY in 1917 (description bound in); Swann sale, 31 March 1966, lot 177, to the consignor.