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The Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles: with the names of the Adventurers, Planters, and Governours from their first beginning An°: 1584 to this present 1626 by Smith, Capt. John

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Title: The Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles: with the names of the Adventurers, Planters, and Governours from their first beginning An°: 1584 to this present 1626
Author: Smith, Capt. John
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller (United States)
Condition: Period style binding using old calf, covers panelled in gilt, spine gilt with red morocco label, rear pastedown renewed. Minor r
Description: London: Printed by I.D. and I.H. for Edward Blackmore, 1632. 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. 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. 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

True and Affecting History of Henrietta de Bellgrave by DE BELLGRAVE Henrietta

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Title: True and Affecting History of Henrietta de Bellgrave
Author: DE BELLGRAVE Henrietta
Seller: Bauman Rare Books (United States)
Description: 1823. First Edition. ANONYMOUS. The True and Affecting History of Henrietta de Bellgrave. New York: W. Borradaile, 1823. Slim octavo, later half black sheep; pp. 40. $1800.First American edition of this popular chapbook extracted from an 18th-century British novel narrating the misadventures of an aristocratic young French woman who survives a shipwreck on the way to Bombay, ends up in a forced marriage to pagan Indian man, and uses that story to try to bring her daughter to Christianity.This compelling story was first published as part of a novel entitled The Lady's Drawing Room, first printed in London in 1743. The original novel comprised a collection of drawing room stories ostensibly told by a group of aristocratic men and women who were attempting to depict conditions in the larger world. The True and Affecting History of Henrietta de Bellgrave was a standout from the work, both for its sensationalism and its Christian resolution, and so began to be published as a separate chapbook in Britain beginning in 1750. The story, written as a letter, chronicles the misadventures of Henrietta de Bellgrave. Born to the daughter of a baron and the son of a count, Henrietta begins her life as a bright spot in a disfavored marriage that eventually drives her father to accept an India governorship to escape his father-in-law's disapproval. The trip to Bombay proves fateful as Henrietta's mother dies of illness and her father is lost in a shipwreck caused by a pirate attack. The victim of an attempted rape and witness to an associated murder, Henrietta is seized by Indian locals who, far from being her saviors, turn her over to a pagan for a forced marriage. De Bellgrave gives birth to a daughter from the union and tries to baptize her as a Christian, only to be interrupted by her pagan husband who makes her promise to abandon the idea permanently. This fictional letter is structured as an evangelical testimony from Henrietta to her daughter Zoa, in which she shares her horrible experiences and encourages her daughter to embrace Christianity. ""The Henrietta story has much to offer any study of 'interracial romance,' or more particularly, 'how much religious difference endangers marital happiness'"" (Emily Workman, Marquette University, quoting Wheeler). This work was printed in Britain numerous times during the 18th century and 19th century; this is the first American edition. See Sabin 19109 (later 1828 edition). Pencil and ink notations on title page and endpaper.A bit of embrowning to interior, light wear and toning to binding. An extremely good copy. Scarce.

Commercial Information Concerning the American Republics and Colonies -- 1891

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Title: Commercial Information Concerning the American Republics and Colonies -- 1891
Seller: Appledore Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: Washington, D.C.: Bureau of the American Republics, 1892. Original wraps. Very Good. The uncommon 1892 original printing of Bulletin No. 41, issued by the Bureau of the American Republics. Solid and VG in its light-blue, printed wrappers, with mild chipping at the spine ends and along the front panel's upper-tip. Detailing the economic attributes (trade, tariffs, import/export, assets) of each nation and/or colony making up The Americas, from Argentina to Venezuela, from the British Colonies to the Spanish Colonies.

Prestressed Concrete: Design and Construction by F. Walley

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Title: Prestressed Concrete: Design and Construction
Author: F. Walley
Seller: Appledore Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Near Fine
Description: London: Thge Ministry of Works (Her Majesty's Stationery Office), 1953. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good +. An impressive copy of the 1953 1st edition. Clean and Near Fine in a bright, VG+ to Near Fine dustjacket, with several tiny chips along the panel edges and mild soiling to the panels. Octavo, a number of crisp black-and-white photos complementing the text. Foreword by Sir Charles Mole.

Role and Impact:The Chicago Society of Artists by Yochim, Louise Dunn

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Title: Role and Impact:The Chicago Society of Artists
Author: Yochim, Louise Dunn
Seller: Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB (United States)
ISBN: 0978960253203
Condition: VG
Description: Chicago, IL: Chicago Society of Artists, 1979. Softcover. VG. Black wraps. x, 297 pp. Numerous bw plates. Describes the achievements of the Chicago Society of Artists and its contributions to the art scene in the United States. Includes a section of biographicals notes on member artists. A very nice copy.

ALL ONE UNIVERSE by Anderson, Poul

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Title: ALL ONE UNIVERSE
Author: Anderson, Poul
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Description: ALL ONE UNIVERSE, Tor, 1996, first edition, fine in wraps. Uncorrected proof.

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