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An account of two voyages to New-England : wherein you have the setting out of a ship, with the charges; the prices of all necessaries for furnishing a planter and his family at his first coming; a description of the countrey, natives and creatures, with their merchantil and physical use : the government of the countrey as it is now possessed by the English, &c. : A large chronological table of the most remarkable passages, from the first discovering of the continent of America, to the year 1673

by: Josselyn, John, active 1630-1675; Widdowes, G. (Giles), active 1669-1675, publisher; Sheppard, former owner. DSI

Publication date: 1674

Topics: Travel, Indians of North America, Description and travel, Josselyn, John, active 1630-1675

Publisher: London : Printed for Giles Widdows, at the Green-Dragon in St. Paul's-Church-yard

Collection: biodiversity

Contributor: Smithsonian Libraries

Language: English

statement of responsibility: by John Josselyn, gent

Title printed within a double ruled border

Errors in pagination: p. 219, 225-277 numbered 223, 227-279, respectively. The numbers 225 and 226 have been omitted from the pagination sequence without loss of text

"Chronological observations of America, from the year of the world to the year of Christ, 1673" ( p. [217]-279 [i.e. 277]) has a special title page

"Licensed by Roger L'Estrange, Novemb. the 28. 1673": on verso of leaf preceding the title page. A woodcut of the publisher's device (initials GW above a profile view of a dragon) appears on the recto of the license leaf

Signatures: A⁴ B-U⁸ X⁴

citation/reference: Sabin 36672

citation/reference: ESTC (Online) R20234

Books printed for Giles Widdows: 3 pages at end

William Reese Company; purchase; 03/2014; 2,500.00

Sabin

ESTC (Online)

William Reese Company;

SCDIRB copy 39088017559303 has ink stamp on front free endpaper: "Sheppard 28," with a silhouette of a ram beneath a border of leaves

SCDIRB copy has bookplate: Smithsonian Institution Libraries. Purchased from the Augustus and Deanne Miller Acquisitions Fund for the American Experience

SCDIRB copy has a contemporary blind-ruled full leather binding with handwritten paper spine title and blue- and red-sprinkled edges; housed in a modern two-part slipcase of blue cloth with gilt-tooled blue leather spine and raised bands