Printed and Manuscript Americana

London: Printed for R. Parker, 1705. Four parts in one volume. First edition. 8vo. (xii), 16, (iv), 104; 40; 64; 83 pp. Illustrated with an engraved vignette title-page, 14 engraved plates, by Gribelin, as well as one folding chart. Full contemporary speckled paneled calf, stamped in blind, small nick in upper front joint; red speckled edges; likely washed; in clamshell box. Arents 456; Church 821; European Americana, 705/21; Field 122 (later edition); Howes B-410; Pilling, Algonquian p. 43; Sabin 5112; Streeter Sale 2:1098; Vail 297

A near-fine first edition of this important history of Virginia. "After John Smith, the first account of this colony, the first one penned by a native and the best contemporary record of its aboriginal tribes and of the life of its early settlers." (Howes)