Author: BARBOUR, PHILIP L; Editor.
Title: The Jamestown Voyages Under the First Charter 1606-1609. Documents relating to the foundation of Jamestown and the history of the Jamestown colony up to the departure of Captain John Smith, last president of the council in Virginia under the first charter, early in October, 1609.
Description: First Edition; Two Volumes; Demy 8vo; Vol. I. pp. xxviii, 248; frontispiece, 1 illustration, 3 maps one folding; Vol. II. pp. viii, 249-524; 3 maps one folding, appendices, bibliography, index; both volumes in original blue cloth, title lettered on spines in gilt, gilt decoration on front board of each volume, dustjackets, fine set. Cambridge; Hakluyt Society; 1969. (Second Series Numbers CXXXVI & CXXXVII). In December 1606, one hundred and twenty emigrants left London in three small vessels. They landed nearly five months later in Virginia and founded a settlement which they called Jamestown. In these two volumes Mr Barbour has collected all the known documents relating to the Jamestown voyage during the life of the original charter. He has annotated them and translated those written in languages other than English. In his introduction he reviews the early sources, in particular books about the early history of the colony written by emigrants. This collection gives a graphic and fascinating contemporary picture of the first few years of the colony out of which the United States was destined to grow.
Keywords: Hakluyt American discovery exploration maritime history
Title: The Jamestown Voyages Under the First Charter 1606-1609. Documents relating to the foundation of Jamestown and the history of the Jamestown colony up to the departure of Captain John Smith, last president of the council in Virginia under the first charter, early in October, 1609.
Description: First Edition; Two Volumes; Demy 8vo; Vol. I. pp. xxviii, 248; frontispiece, 1 illustration, 3 maps one folding; Vol. II. pp. viii, 249-524; 3 maps one folding, appendices, bibliography, index; both volumes in original blue cloth, title lettered on spines in gilt, gilt decoration on front board of each volume, dustjackets, fine set. Cambridge; Hakluyt Society; 1969. (Second Series Numbers CXXXVI & CXXXVII). In December 1606, one hundred and twenty emigrants left London in three small vessels. They landed nearly five months later in Virginia and founded a settlement which they called Jamestown. In these two volumes Mr Barbour has collected all the known documents relating to the Jamestown voyage during the life of the original charter. He has annotated them and translated those written in languages other than English. In his introduction he reviews the early sources, in particular books about the early history of the colony written by emigrants. This collection gives a graphic and fascinating contemporary picture of the first few years of the colony out of which the United States was destined to grow.
Keywords: Hakluyt American discovery exploration maritime history
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- Book number: 123451
- Book number: 123451