Item 362The Adventures and Discovrses of Captain John Smith, sometime President of Virginia, and Admiral of New England, Newly Ordered by Iohn Ashton. With Illustrations taken by Him from Original Sources
One of the key texts which encouraged English colonization of the Americas, especially around the area that would become known as Chesapeake Bay. This edition has a deliberately anachronistic style, with the long s used throughout and being printed on dark faux-aged paper. Ink binding stamps of a Boston bindery (cannot make out) and Bayntun on front free endpaper verso.
London: Cassell & Company, 1883. Octavo. Bound in three-quarter brown morroco, raised bands, spine lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. Octavo.