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THE TRVE TRAVELS, ADVENTVRES AND OBSERVATIONS OF CAPTAINE IOHN SMITH, IN Europe, Asia, Africke, and America: BEGINNING ABOUT THE YEERE 1596, AND CONTINUED TO THIS PRESENT 1629.

Date1819

Compiler John Holt Rice 1777 - 1831

Publisher William W. Gray

Maker Anonymous

After work by John Smith 1580-1631

OriginAmerica, Virginia, Richmond

MediumBlack and white line engraving

DimensionsOH: 8 5/8" x OW: 5 1/2" x OD: 1 3/4"

Credit LineGift of Mr. and Mrs. Richard F. Barry, III, Mr. and Mrs. Macon F. Brock, Mr. and Mrs. David R. Goode, Mr. and Mrs. Conrad M. Hall, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas G. Johnson, Jr., Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Moorman, IV, and Mr. and Mrs. Richard D. Roberts.

Object number2017-202

DescriptionOn title page:THE/ TRVE TRAVELS,/ ADVENTVRES/ AND/ OBSERVATIONS/ OF CAPTAINE IOHN SMITH,/ IN/ Europe, Asia, Africke, and America:/ BEGINNING/ ABOUT THE YEERE 1596, AND CONTINUED TO THIS PRESENT 1629./ VOL. I./ FROM THE LONDON EDITION OF 1629./ RICHMOND:/ Republished at the Franklin Press./ William W. Grey, Printer./ 1819.Label TextThis is the 1819 reprint of John Smith's Travels compiled by Presbyterian clergyman and historian John Holt Rice of "The True Travels, Adventures and Observations of Captaine John Smith, in Europe, Asia, Africke, and America: Beginning About the Yeere 1593, and Continued to this Present 1629" It contains a print of the map: Virginia Discovered and Described by Captayn John Smith.

This copy is published in William C. Wooldridge, "Mapping Virginia: From the Age of Exploration to the Civil War" (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2012), Map 47.ProvenanceBefore 1993, Joe Willard (Virginia Beach, VA); 1993, purchased by William C. Wooldridge (Norfolk, VA); 2009, purchased by the Virginia Cartographical Society (Norfolk, VA); 2017-present, given to the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation (Williamsburg, VA).