smith capt john (35 résultats)

paperback. Etat : Good. Good with wear and markings. Looks like an interesting title.

Etat : New.

Soft cover. Etat : Very Good. GGA - {Good Girl Art) Painted Cover (illustrateur). First Paperback Ed. & 1st Printing!. Inventory # D498-1 FATE (Pulp Digest Magazine); Vol. 6, No. 2, Issue 35, February 1953 True Stories on The Strange, The Unusual, The Unknown; The Gulls That Saved The Mormons - Freud on Occultism by Cornelius Tabori Published by Highland Park, IL: Clark Publishing Company, CONTENTS; ** STORIES (1) The Gulls That Saved The Mormons by Peg Miller (2) Car of Destiny by John Thompson (3) Where Was Admiral Tryon? by Don C. Trenary (4) The Incredible Voyage by Albert A. Brandt (5) Mystery at Penkaet Castle by Edmond P. Gibson (6) What Was the "Thing"? by Phyllis Duncan Brown (7) My House of Evil by Hazel E. Monte (8) Rider Haggard and His Dog by Denys Parsons, M.Sc. (9) The Unfading Roses by F. Terry Newman (10) Edgar Caye - Modern Man of Miracles by Paul M. Vesti; ** ARTICLES = (1) Mystery of the Ghost Bullets by Harold T. Wilkins (2) Fortune-Telling By Cycles by Alan Dorsey (3) The Devils Tramping Ground by John Harden (4) Story of a Closed Mind by Dr. W. E. Farbstein (5) Re-living the Dieppe Raid by Edmond P. Gibson (6) Freud on Occultism by Cornelius Tabor CONDITION; VG spine fray top and bottom; fc top right corner PRICE = $39; Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Book.

Soft cover. Etat : Very Good. First Paperback Ed. & 1st Printing!. Inventory # D500-1 FATE (Pulp Digest Magazine); Vol. 6, No. 4, Issue 37, April 1953 True Stories on The Strange, The Unusual, The Unknown Viking's Lost Colony; Magdalene Grombach; Opal Whiteley; Woman Sings in Ancient Languages; Ghost Ship, Caodaism; Mirages Published by Highland Park, IL: Clark Publishing Company, CONTENTS; ** STORIES (1) Aunt Tishy and the Witches of Ellum Street by Sigman Byrd (2) The Ghost Ship "Seabird" by Bartnet Hyams (3) The Possessions of Magdalene Grombach by John P. Bessor (4) The Visitor by Capt. E. Fairfax-Lucy (5) Karachi Assignment by Maj. Henry F. Hansen (6) Who Is Opal Whiteley? by Alson J. Smith (7) The Possessions of Maria Talarico by Edmond P. Gibson; ** ARTICLES = (1) Lost Colonies of the Vikings by Gordon Cooper (2) The Woman Who Sings in Ancient Languages by Raymond F. Piper (3) Caodaism, the Worlds Newest Religion by Harrison Forman (4) Ghosts in the Blitz by Eliiot O Donnell (5) When the Skies Rained Blood! by Harold W. Wilkins (6) How to Develop Automatic Writing by Horace Leaf (7) The Anatomy of Mirages by Virginia Stumbough (8) Prophecies I Have Heard by Jeron King Criswell; CONDITION; VG; minor spine fraying; spine creasing PRICE = $32; Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Book.

Etat : As New. First Edition. A very fine, clean and tight copy in slipcase. Stated First Printing, The Library of America-171. A very nice copy in like new and unread condition. As New.

Trade Paperback. Etat : Near Fine. Book is in excellent condition. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows very light wear only with creaseless covers and spine, tiny bit of chipping top and bottom spine, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Contents includes: Aunt Tishy and the Witches of Ellum Street, The Ghost Ship "Seabird",The Possessions of Magdalene Grombach, Karachi Assignment, Who Is Opal Whiteley? ,The Possessions of Maria Talarico , Lost Colonies of the Vikings , The Woman Who Sings in Ancient Languages, Caodaism, the Worlds Newest Religion, Ghosts in the Blitz , When the Skies Rained Blood!, How to Develop Automatic Writing ,The Anatomy of Mirages etc. 130 pages on age-toned paper with ads, b&w photos, drawings, prints. Wrapped in protective clear cover. Keywords: Haunted House, Magazine, 1950's, Metaphysics, Occult, Psychic, Phenomena, Spirits, Past Lives, Warning, Mystic, Mysticism, Ghosts, Paranormal, Raymond A. Palmer, Kenneth Arnold.

Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Near Fine. First printing. Library of America no. 171. Green cloth, gilt spine lettering, in a price clipped dust jacket. Neat ink name to the first blank, else unmarked and clean. Near fine, as new.

Soft cover. Etat : Very Good +. First Paperback Ed. & 1st Printing!. Inventory # D500-1 FATE (Pulp Digest Magazine); Vol. 6, No. 4, Issue 37, April 1953 True Stories on The Strange, The Unusual, The Unknown Viking's Lost Colony; Magdalene Grombach; Opal Whiteley; Woman Sings in Ancient Languages; Ghost Ship, Caodaism; Mirages Published by Highland Park, IL: Clark Publishing Company, CONTENTS; ** STORIES (1) Aunt Tishy and the Witches of Ellum Street by Sigman Byrd (2) The Ghost Ship "Seabird" by Bartnet Hyams (3) The Possessions of Magdalene Grombach by John P. Bessor (4) The Visitor by Capt. E. Fairfax-Lucy (5) Karachi Assignment by Maj. Henry F. Hansen (6) Who Is Opal Whiteley? by Alson J. Smith (7) The Possessions of Maria Talarico by Edmond P. Gibson; ** ARTICLES = (1) Lost Colonies of the Vikings by Gordon Cooper (2) The Woman Who Sings in Ancient Languages by Raymond F. Piper (3) Caodaism, the Worlds Newest Religion by Harrison Forman (4) Ghosts in the Blitz by Eliiot O Donnell (5) When the Skies Rained Blood! by Harold W. Wilkins (6) How to Develop Automatic Writing by Horace Leaf (7) The Anatomy of Mirages by Virginia Stumbough (8) Prophecies I Have Heard by Jeron King Criswell; CONDITION; VG+; minor spine fraying; PRICE = $39 Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Book.

HARDCOVER. 1st edition. 67pp, octavo. tight binding, clean throughout, clean boards, gilt to spine, Very Good.

hardcover. Etat : Good. Good with wear and markings. Looks like an interesting title.

Etat : New.

Soft cover. Etat : Very Good. Ten volumes. Softcovers in Good-plus to Very Good condition, 12mo. Blue stiff wrappers, stapled binding, titles and decoration in brown. Each is stamped on the title page "Specimen Copy / compliments of / Maynard, Merrill and Co". Spines are lightly worn, variable soiling, contents are unmarked but for publisher's stamp. No.1, The Discovery of America (Washington Irving), 64 pp; No.2, The Settlement of Virginia (Captain John Smith), 63 pp; No.3, History of Plymouth Plantation (Governor Bradford), 64 pp; No.4, King Philip's War, and Witchcraft in New England (Governor Hutchinson), 63 pp; No.5, The Mississippi Valley (John Gilmary Shea), 49 pp; No.6, Champlain and His Associates (Francis Parkman), 64 pp; No.7, Braddock's Defeat (Francis Parkman), 64 pp; No.8, First Battles of the Revolution (Edward Everett), 58 pp; No.9, Colonial Pioneers (James Parton), 63 pp; No.10, Heroes of the Revolution (James Parton), 63 pp. Bookseller accession no.: 17685.

Hard Cover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. First Printing. Dust jacket has some smuging on the lower front, binding straight, the Henry Spelman narrative, 12 pages, marked in pen by William Heath, author of William Wells and the Struggle for the Old Northwest, the rest clean and unmarked. 1329 pages. A very valuable collection of primarhy documents about early American history.

Hardcover in Dust Jacket. Etat : Very Good. First Edition. First Printing. As-new, in publisher's shrink-wrap.The definitive American literary series encompassing all periods and genres of American writing, published in exceedingly handsome hardcover volumes with sewn bindings and ribbon markers, printed on a premium acid-free lightweight opaque paper that exceeds the requirements for permanence set by the American National Standards Institute.

hardcover. Etat : New. .of Roanoke, Jamestown, and the First English Settlement of America (The Library of America). New, in shrink-wrap. Photos available. We ship daily. Expedited shipping available! (Heavy books & sets may require extra shipping charges.).

No Binding. Etat : Very Good. A splendid original engraved portrait. Mounted and ready to frame. This is an excellent opportunity to purchase an unusual and decorative engraving.

236 pages. 9 illustrations. a little foxing, but a good clean condition hardback in the original green cloth binding, and still retaining the dust-jacket. history of the Glasgow based shipping line, sold to Ellermans in 1901. [Please see our storefront page for shipping information].

Gebunden. Etat : New.

Gebunden. Etat : New.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. NEW! Never cracked open or read. PLEASE NOTE: This is not the black dust jacketed issuance, but rather the green cloth slipcased version housed in the publisher's original slipcase.

Hardcover. Etat : Fair - (ex-library). Etat de la jaquette : No Dust Jacket. b/w Illustrations (illustrateur). First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" The english Scholar's library No. 16. Two books bound in later grey cloth, 8vo, 980pp in two books. Ex-library with usual marks, notes and marks to text and endpapers, several fold out plates with large tears & tape repairs, toning to edges). A fair reading/reference copy of a scarce history of Capt. John Smith. sold as-is.

Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Near Fine. Limited, Numbered Reprint. 80pp.+; HB red burlap w/spine label-beveled edges; slight rub w/some sun on spine; sml.burn,bk.pastedwn.; clean,tight pgs. Slipcase tan w/ b/w label; slight rub w/wear on edges&corners. "The True Travels, Adventures, &c. of Captaine John Smith, in Europe, Asia, Africke, & America" "Three hundred and seventy-seven copies of The True Travells, &c. of Capt. John Smith have been Designed and Printed by Richard W. Ellis: The Georgian Press This is copy No. 336" Savoy Editions Issue No Three. illus.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good+. Etat de la jaquette : Slipcase Very Good. Facsimile Reprint. 242pp.+14pg.intro.; HB whte w/gilt;-ribbon ties; some rub w/covers bowed; clean,tight pgs. Intro. string-bound white w/blk.; near fine. Slipcase gray w/b/w label&white w/gilt spine label; rubbed w/corners worn; some lt.stain; spine sunned. "Captain John Smith's history of Virginia, with its stories of Pocahontas, has deeply influenced the American conception of the country's earlist days and made an indelible impression upon American folklore and popular belief, not to mention history." illus.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Not Issued. First Collected. Volumes I-IV, VII, VIII (6 volumes of an eventual 8), reprinting the papers presented to the Bucks County Historical Society. Uniformly bound in red cloth, spine panels lettered in gilt. All volumes show minor soiling to cloth and slight rubbing to extremities, with text block edges typically a bit tanned by age, mild rubbing to portions of edges. Vol. VIII is minimally ex-library, with call label on lower spine, F&M College (Gift of B. F. Fackenthal, Jr.) book plate mounted inside front cover. Vol. VIII shows minor loss (nibbling?) at top corner through most of text block, not affecting any text, this copy thus Good only, the set overall VG. Firm bindings, clean interiors. Approx. 600-750 pp. per volume. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.

Single Issue Magazine. Etat : Good. Davis, Clara O.; Clymer, John F.; Maltman, W.; Garland, George; Smith, Ralph C.; Lowthian, Louis R. (illustrateur). First Edition. 60 pages. Features: News digest includes 'a British ministry of propaganda', America's altered mood, free speech in Canada, Moscow bargaining, and from Poland to Rumania; Canada's Prison Shame - intersting article by J. Alex. Edmison includes photos of - the B.C. Penitentiary at New Westminster, youn ladies in the Borstal Institute at Aylesbury, England, Montreal Gaol (Bordeaux Gaol), and members of the Archambault Commission - R.W. Craig, J.L. KKent, Mr. Justice Archambault, J.C. McRuer, and Allan Fraser; Uncle Romeo and the White Pendennings (short story); The Missing Passenger (short story); A Letter to Anne (short story); Samaritan on Wheels - the story of the Empire's greatest philanthropist and leading industrialist William Richard Morris, now Viscount Nuffield - article with photos; Land of Wish-It-Were (verse); If I Die Before I Wake (part 4); Nice one-page ad by the Automotive Industries of Canada features the province of Alberta with map and text; Colgate ad features illustration of the Dionne Quints; Palmolive soap ad features illustration of the faces of the Dionne Quintuplets and (faux) signed photo of Gladys Cooper of 1973 Robson St. in Vancouver; Stewart-Warner radio ad features photos of the 4575, 4351 and 4511 models; When Contagious Diseases Stay Home; Movie news and photos, with brief write-up and photo of Geraldine Fitzgerald, plus additional photos of King Vidor, Alexander Hall, Howard Hawks, Frank Capra, Sam Wood, Jack Conway, Clarence Brown, Frank Borzage, Tod Browning, George Cukor, Victor Fleming and Norman Taurog; Fashion illustrations; Nice half-page two-colour ad for RCA Victor radios shows the A-2, A-1 and A-4; Scales of Fortune (short story); Half-page tourism ad for Italy (unfortunately, many young Canadians would soon be fighting there!); Beauty article; Charis foundations ad features nostalgic photo; Autumn fashion preview; Pickling Made Easier; Quotes of the World; Nice Heinz ketchup ad inside front cover includes photo of restaurant scene; Vintage colour back cover ad for Canadian-grown fruits and vegetables; and more. Unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy of this great vintage issue.

Single Issue Magazine. Etat : Very Good. Prater, E.; Hiley, F.; Wood, Stanley L.; Whitaker, W.G.; Webb, Arch; Robinson, T.H.; Abbey, S.; York, W.G.; Woodville, R. Caton; Waye, A.S. (illustrateur). First Edition. Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: The Woman of the Island - The extraordinary experience that befell E.N. McMullan in the remote interior of Brazil, showing that even the wildest savages have some concpetion of the white man's abilities and a very lively sense of gratitute; Amid the Eternal Fires - Volcanologist Professor T.A. Jaggar has lived on the brink of the Kilauea volcano for fourteen years - article with photos; The Wishing Pipe - a tragic story of peril underground by C.J. Harrell, one of the best placer- and hard-rock miners in the Western U.S.; East Beyond the East - a photo-illustrated visit to Ternate, gem of the Spice Islands, or Moluccas; A Battle With Wolves - a trapper's nighmare with black wolves in the Far North; In the Dark - Capt. Raymond Kelsall, of Toro, Uganda was dragged out of his bed at 2am by a lion!; Exploring in Central Brazil - Part II - A small expedition left England in 1921 to study the mighty Amazon forests and her wild Indian Tribes - article with photos; The Four Madmen - Frank James, Marcus Curtis, John Hawkins and John Coffey break out of Matteawan Insane Asylum in Beacon, New York; The Pelican Women of Lake Tchad - article with photos of the monstrous wooden discs inserted in their lips; The Three Angleteers - Part I - Three bored English lads set out across Europe and experience many troubles and adventures; My Turtle - Louis A. Sabine's disastrous voyage aboard the yawl Etta May promised a rich return but left him more poor than when he started; Four Years in Liberia - Trader Percy H. Newman describes some odd experiences in the little-known interior of the Black Republic of Liberia, in ports of which he was the first white man the natives had ever seen; A Navajo "Yebitchai" - an unusual nine-day festival connected with the healing of the sick - article with photos; Over the Dam - Night Watchman, Matthew Armstrong, Nanaimo, British Columbia The Woman of the Island - The extraordinary experience that befell E.N. McMullan in the remote interior of Brazil, showing that even the wildest savages have some concpetion of the white man's abilities and a very lively sense of gratitute; Amid the Eternal Fires - Volcanologist Professor T.A. Jaggar has lived on the brink of the Kilauea volcano for fourteen years - article with photos; The Wishing Pipe - a tragic story of peril underground by C.J. Harrell, one of the best placer- and hard-rock miners in the Western U.S.; East Beyond the East - a photo-illustrated visit to Ternate, gem of the Spice Islands, or Moluccas; A Battle With Wolves - a trapper's nighmare with black wolves in the Far North; In the Dark - Capt. Raymond Kelsall, of Toro, Uganda was dragged out of his bed at 2am by a lion!; Exporting in Central Brazil - Part II - A small expedition left England in 1921 to study the mighty Amazon forests and her wild Indian Tribes - article with photos; The Four Madmen - Frank James, Marcus Curtis, John Hawkins and John Coffey break out of Matteawan Insane Asylum in Beacon, New York; The Pelican Women of Lake Tchad - article with photos of the monstrous wooden discs inserted in their lips; The Three Angleteers - Part I - Three bored English lads set out across Europe and experience many troubles and adventures; My Turtle - Louis A. Sabine's disastrous voyage aboard the yawl Etta May promised a rich return but left him more poor than when he started; Four Years in Liberia - Trader Percy H. Newman describes some odd experiences in the little-known interior of the Black Republic of Liberia, in parts of which he was the first white man the natives had ever seen; A Navajo "Yebitchai" - an unusual nine-day festival connected with the healing of the sick - article with photos; Over the Dam - Night Watchman Matthew Armstrong's terrible ordeal in the woods near Nanaimo, British Columbia; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy of this excellent vintage issue.

Etat : Fine. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original Chieftain goatskins, dyed the exact shade of RAF wool-barathea wartime uniform fabric. The front cover is gold-blocked with the title and incorporates specially woven RAF wings of 1940 type by Gieves and Hawkes, No. 1 Savile Row, London, with the King's crown, the marker ribbon of blue silk bearing the emblems of the Battle of Britain Fighter Association, 22-carat gold edging. 4to. 13¼'' x 10''. The print run is strictly limited to 401 copies, No. 1 being presented to HM The Queen. This copy being number 173. Each copy bears the handwritten signatures of the twenty-five selected Battle of Britain pilots: Wg Cdr P. P. C. Barthropp; Wg Cdr R. P. Beaumont; Sqn Ldr G. H. Bennions; Air Vice-Marshal H. A. C. Bird-Wilson; Air Cdre P. M. Brothers; Air Marshal Sir Denis Crowley-Milling; Gp Capt W. D. David; Air Cdre A. C. Deere; Sqn Ldr B. H. Drobinski; Flt Lt J. H. Duart; Air Chief Marshal Sir Christopher Foxley-Norris; Gp Capt T. P. Gleave; Wg Cdr N. P. W. Hancock; Sqn Ldr C. Haw; Cdr R. C. Hay; Gp Capt C. B. F. Kingcome; Colonel Henry Gaston Lafont; Air Cdre A. R. D. MacDonell; Sqn Ldr M. J. Mansfeld; W Cdr A. G. Page; Wg Cdr P. L. Parrott; Gp Capt D. F. B. Sheen; Wg Cdr F. M. Smith; Wg Cdr J. E. Storrar; Wg Cdr G. C. Unwin. Housed in matching buckram clamshell box with blue silk lining and gilt titling. Unopened book in new condition in Fine condition box. Pocket inside the box holds original sales receipt, The Times colour supplement advertisement, typed letter from the original purchaser to Air Vice Marshall Freddie Hurrell confirming his order and enclosed cheque, he also mentions that he would wish to collect the book himself from Hartnolls in Bodmin when the book was ready. SIGNED letter from Air Vice Marshall Freddie Hurrell to the recipient on Royal Air Force Benevolent Fund letter-headed paper with details of the book. Hartnoll Delivery Note. Advertisement prospectus giving in-depth details concerning the various elements of production with a photograph of the six protagonists: Michael Pierce, John Golley, Roy Asser, Bill Gunston, Brian Masterton, and Freddie Hurrell to the front cover viewing the finished product. Remains wrapped in Hartnoll's original brown paper. Member of the P.B.F.A. BATTLE OF BRITAIN.

1st Edition. First edition, sixth and final state of the title. Engraved title and four folding engraved maps. [12], 1-96, 105-248pp. Extra-illustrated with an engraved portrait of the Duchess of Richmond and Lenox. Folio. Smith's Virginia is arguably the most important single work on the early English colonization of North America. Captain John Smith (1580-1631) was involved in the Jamestown colony in Virginia from its beginning in 1607, and his exploits during the difficult early days of the settlement, especially his dealings with the Indians of the area, are the stuff of American legend. Besides his swashbuckling persona as a man of action, Smith was a careful observer and persistent and inquiring explorer. His activities included not only Virginia and the Chesapeake, but the exploration of the New England coast as well. Both the book and its maps are of the greatest possible importance for early American history. Smith played a key role in the founding of the new settlement of Jamestown and all of his books and pamphlets were designed to encourage trade and colonization overseas. But his "masterpiece is the Generall Historie, which was the first sizeable work written in English about the newfound continent" (PMM 124). Following a survey of voyages to America to 1605, Smith describes the physical features, natural products, and Native Americans on Chesapeake Bay. His historical account of the Virginia Colony covers the period from 1606 to 1624 and includes much knowledge acquired at first hand. The Generall Historie and its maps appear in a complex variety of issues. The text of the work was printed by two printers, to each of whom Smith gave half the text. Their miscalculation of text length created a break in pagination, as issued (there are no pp. 97-104). Although there is only one printing of the text, Smith continually updated the titlepage of the work to keep it current and to reflect the death of James I and the accession of Charles I, whose portraits appear on the title. The first issue titlepage is dated 1624, the date of the printing of the text. Subsequent titles are dated 1625, 1626, 1627, 1631, and 1632 (as here). At the same time as new titles were issued, Smith continually altered the copper plates of the four maps, adding place names or changing details. According to the bibliographer Wilberforce Eames, the foremost authority on the book, only certain issues of each map are properly found with each title issue. The work, however, is often found with the incorrect states of the maps or the title supplied at later date. All the maps and plates present here are the correct states for the 1632 second issue of the title. The first map, the map of Virginia, shows the present states of Virginia and Maryland and the Chesapeake Bay. It is one of the most important cartographical works related to North America in the 17th century. There are twelve known states of the map, and it is present here in the eleventh state. The second map, Ould Virginia, has a small cartographical panel showing the Carolina Capes where the abortive Roanoake settlement had been. It is more famous for the engraved scenes of Smith's adventures in Virginia which surround it, especially the famous depiction of Pocahontas saving Smith from execution. It appears in four states, of which this is the fourth. The third map, that of New England, has been rightly called "the foundation map of New England cartography." (Burden). Smith had first published this map in 1616, and it went through nine states in all, of which the ninth is present here. The fourth map, of Bermuda, also occupies a founding position in the detailed cartography of the islands. There are three states, of which the third is present here. Two portraits are sometimes found bound into copies of the Generall Historie, though were not included in all copies and were likely separately issued and inserted: the Duchess of Richmond and Lenox, to whom the book was dedicated, and Pocahontas. The Duches of Richmond portrait is present here, being a re-engraved edition done circa 1796. See Eames's note in the lengthy entry on Smith in Sabin. "Recounting his exploits among Virginia's Algonquians, Smith boldly created his own personal history. He reinforced the words of his story with illustrations derived from de Bry, into which he inserted himself. Since the pictures were intended less to inform his readers about Algonquian life than to make his own story dramatic and believable, Smith may have used de Bry's images because his readers would have been comfortably familiar with them. They had become symbols of America that could be manipulated independently of the reality that they purported to represent. At the same time, the 'Indians' they depicted became increasingly abstract concepts whose meaning for European readers lay not in their specific culture but in their role as foils for European adventurers" (Creating America) A foundational work. ESTC S111886; European Americana 632/99; Sabin 82829; Church 422; JCB (3)II:245; Miles & Reese, America Pictured to Life 27; PMM 124. For the maps see Burden North America 164, 187, 212, 213 and Verner, "Smith's Virginia and its Derivatives" in The Mapping of America, pp. 136-160. See Sabin, XX, pp. 225-245 for a detailed discussion by Wilberforce Eames, especially the issues of the maps, the portraits, and the titlepages Period style binding using old calf, covers panelled in gilt, spine gilt with red morocco label, rear pastedown renewed. Minor repaired tears at gutters of folding maps, the engraved portrait expertly remargined at the larger margin below the imprint. Provenance: John Tremen (?) (signature on front endpaper, partially crossed out, dated February 20, 1653); Philadelphia Tremen (?) (later signature on front endpaper). Housed in a morocco backed box Engraved title and four folding engraved maps. [12], 1-96, 105-248pp. Extra-illustrated with an engraved portrait of the Duchess of Richmond and Lenox. Folio First e.

The rare Hulsius edition the earliest obtainable edition of one of the legendary early maps of Colonial America: "the foundation map of New England cartography, the one that gave [New England] its name and the first devoted to the region" (Burden 187). After a period of inactivity following his Virginia escapades, Captain John Smith was invited by four London merchants to explore the coastline north of Virginia, with instructions to return with a profitable cargo. Smith arrived off the Kennebec River with two ships in May 1614. One of his ships concentrated on catching fish and gathering other valuable commodities, while he continued down the coast to chart and explore. Smith immediately recognized the poor state of the existing cartography for the region. He noted that he had six or seven maps "of those northern parts, so unlike each to other, and most so differing from any true proportion, or resemblance of the Countrey, as they did me no more good, then so much waste paper." Returning to England in December 1615, Smith had the map published with his A Description of New England in June 1616. According to a legend on the map, much of the nomenclature was provided by Charles, Prince of Wales, the future Charles I. Several of these placenames are still in use, including Cape Anne, Charles River, and Plymouth. The decorative elements were engraved by the outstanding Dutch engraver, Simon de Passe, who worked in London from 1616 to 1621. De Passe was most famous for his portraits. Griffiths notes that de Passe's English portraits "marked an epoch not only in the British print but in the development of European portrait engraving," most importantly for his introduction of "a new type of auricular frame.It is curious that such an advanced type should first be popularized in England." The first state of the map appeared only within Smith's A Description of New England in 1616. Between 1624 and 1639, eight additional states of the map were issued within Smith's Generall Historie (states 3-8, 1624-1632), or the work Historia Mundi (state 9, 1635-1639). The early states are rarely encountered, with the final states from the Historia Mundi generally the ones available on the market. In 1617, however, German publisher Levinus Hulsius translated Smith's Description into German within the thirteenth part of his Sammlung von Sechs und Zwanzig Schiffarten. "For this map he utilized the first state of Smith's New England published the previous year in London. The most noticeable differences, however, are the lack of any imprints lower left and right and the fact that the inscriptions are in German. There was a second edition in 1628 which also contained the map" - Burden. BURDEN 190. Sheet size: 12¾ x 14 inches. Old folds. Small split along one fold just below the portrait. Tissue-backed. Framed.

Etat : Very Good. Manuscript map of Virginia, USA. The manuscript map seems to be based on the Discoveries of Transsylvanus and Capt. John Smith. It is drawn on laid paper with watermark. , Size : 151x195 (mm), 5.94x7.68 (Inches), Original Hand Coloring.