VIRGINIA Captain John Smith 1819 FOLDING MAP two volume

 1819

Adventures and Observations of Captaine John Smith

 First Edition!

NO RESERVE!!!!

Title: The True Travels, Adventures and Observations of Captaine John Smith in Europe, Asia, Africke, and America: Beginning About the Year 1593, and Continued to the Present 1629, Vol I. The Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England, Ect. Vol. II (In 2 Vols)

 Author:  Captaine John Smith

Publisher: Published in Richmond, Virginia at Franklin Press in 1819, as stated on title pages.  First American Edition. Two Volumes

Description:  Original full leather binding, leather spine labels with gilt lettering, original endpapers. Illustrated, and with two folding plates, one a map of Virginia, the other a group of vignettes of European battles. Appears to be missing the second map of Virginia. Complete in two volumes. Ownership signature of Henry Van Wart jr. Wikipedia has the following information on Henry Van Wart: Henry van Wart (1784 - 1873), an American who became British by special act of parliament, founded the Birmingham Stock Exchange and served as one of Birmingham's first Aldermen and a director of the Birmingham Banking Company.  The following information concerning this book has been shamefully copied from another web source: The Richmond edition of the GENERALL HISTORIE OF VIRGINIA and THE TRUE TRAVELS. of John Smith, the first American edition of these seminal works on Virginia and Maryland. The map reproduces the Virginia map found in the GENERALL HISTORIE. Contains notes on Indian vocabularies, as well as a wealth of information on Indian cultures. SABIN 82852  Smith, one of the last of the Elizabethan adventurers, was leader of the first permanent English settlement in America at Jamestown, Virginia. He was an important man in the colony and because of his friendly relations with the Indians, was able buy corn which made it possible for the colonist to survive the first winters. Once Smith was captured by unfriendly Indians. According to the story he told later, he was about to be killed when Pocahontas, the chief's twelve-year-old daughter, begged that he be saved. He was responsible for getting London to send settlers who would be farmers, fishermen and workers rather than gold-seekers, which led to the building of a successful colony. In 1614 he returned from England where he had been recuperating after an injury, to explore and map the coast of New England.

Text: Text is printed in English. 

Size:  Books Measure approx: 8 1/2 inches tall by 5 1/2 inches.  

Condition:   Ex-library markings and considerable wear to bindings, old call letters at spines, vol. one with front cover, front endpaper and frontis detached but present, repairable few inch closed tear to map plate.