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THE COMPLETE WORKS OF Captain John Smith
  
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MAPS AND ILLUSTRATIONS
  
ABBREVIATIONS AND SHORT TITLES

  
THE COMPLETE WORKS OF Captain John Smith
  
THE GENERALL HISTORY of Virginia, the Somer Iles, and New England, with the Names of the Adventurers, and Their Adventures ...
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INTRODUCTION
  
TEXTUAL ANNOTATION AND BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE TO
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BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
  
THE GENERALL HISTORIE of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles ...
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INTRODUCTION
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THE GENERALL HISTORIE
  
TO THE WORSHIPFULL the Master Wardens and Societie of the Cordwayners of the Cittie of London.
  
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TO THE ILLUSTRIOUS and Most Noble Princesse, the Lady Francis, Duchesse of Richmond and Lenox.
  
A PREFACE of foure Poynts.
  
A GENTLEMAN desirous to be unknowne, yet a great Benefactor to Virginia, his love to the Author, the Company, and History.
  
SAMUEL PURCHAS of his friend Captaine John Smith, and his Virginia.
  
THOMAS MACARNESSE to his worthy friend and Countryman, Captaine John Smith.
  
TO HIS FRIEND Captaine John Smith, and his Worke.
  
TO MY WORTHY friend Captaine John Smith.
  
TO HIS MUCH respected Friend Captaine John Smith.
  
TO HIS LOVING friend Captaine John Smith.
  
TO MY DEARE friend by true Vertue ennobled Captaine John Smith.
  
NOBLE CAPTAINE Smith, my worthy Friend
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TO HIS WORTHILY affected Friend, Captaine John Smith.
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HOW ANCIENT AUTHORS REPORT, THE NEW-WORLD, Now called America, was discovered: and part thereof first Planted by the English, called Virginia, with the Accidents and Proceedings of the same.
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The second Booke. THE SIXT VOYAGE.
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The third Booke. THE PROCEEDINGS AND ACCIDENTS OF The English Colony in Virginia, Extracted from the Authors following, by William Simons, Doctour of Divinitie.
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The Fourth Booke. TO MAKE PLAINE THE TRUE PROCEEDINGS of the Historie for 1609. we must follow the examinations of Doctor Simons, and two learned Orations published by the Companie; with the relation of the Right Honourable the Lord De la Ware.
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The Fifth Booke. THE GENERALL HISTORIE OF THE BERMUDAS, now called the Summer Iles, from their beginning in the yeere of our Lord 1593. to this present 1624. with their proceedings, accidents and present estate.
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The Sixth Booke. THE GENERALL HISTORIE OF NEW-ENGLAND.
  
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ABBREVIATIONS
AND SHORT TITLES

ABBREVIATIONS

     
marg.  Marginalia, notes printed in margins of
Smith's works. 
repr.  Reprinted. 
sig.  Signature, a letter or mark at the bottom of
each gathering (folded sheet) in a book. In the
absence of printed page numbers, reference is
made instead to the signature, the order of the
leaf in the gathering, and the side of the leaf.
E.g., A1r[ecto] and A1v[erso] for the front and
back of the first page in signature A; A2r for
the front of the second, etc. 

SHORT TITLES

       
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Arber, Smith, Works  Edward Arber, ed., Captain John Smith ...
Works, 1608-1631, 2 vols., The English
Scholar's Library Edition, No. 16
(Birmingham, 1884). 
Barbour, "Earliest
Reconnaissance," Pt. I
or Pt. II 		 Philip L. Barbour, "The Earliest
Reconnaissance of the Chesapeake Bay Area:
Captain John Smith's Map and Indian
Vocabulary," Virginia Magazine of History and
Biography, Pt. I, LXXIX (1971), 280-302; Pt.
II, LXXX (1972), 21-51. 
Barbour, Jamestown
Voyages 		 Philip L. Barbour, ed., The Jamestown Voyages
under the First Charter, 1606-1609, 2 vols.
(Hakluyt Society, 2d Ser.,
CXXXVI-CXXXVII [London, 1969]). 
Barbour, "Smith and the
Bishop" 		 Philip L. Barbour, "Captain John Smith and
the Bishop of Sarum," Huntington Library
Quarterly, XXVI (1962-1963), 11-29. 
Barbour, Three Worlds  Philip L. Barbour, The Three Worlds of Captain
John Smith (Boston, 1964). 
Bradford, Plymouth
Plantation 		 William Bradford, Of Plymouth Plantation,
1620-1647, ed. Samuel Eliot Morison (New
York, 1952). 
Butler, Bermudaes  [Nathaniel Butler], The Historye of the
Bermudaes or Summer Islands, ed. General Sir J.
Henry Lefroy (Hakluyt Society, 1st Ser., LXV
[London, 1882]). 
DAB  Dictionary of American Biography. 
DNB  Dictionary of National Biography. 
Fotherby, Atheomastix  Martin Fotherby, Atheomastix; clearing foure
truthes, against atheists and infidels ... (London,
1622). 
Hakluyt, Principal
Navigations 		 Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations,
Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English
Nation, 3 vols. (London, 1598-1600). 
Hamor, True Discourse  Ralphe Hamor, A True Discourse Of The Present
Estate Of Virginia, .. till the 18 of June, 1614 ...
(London, 1615). 
Kingsbury, Va. Co.
Records 		 Susan Myra Kingsbury, ed., The Records of the
Virginia Company of London, 4 vols.
(Washington, D.C., 1906-1935). 
Lefroy, Memorials  Sir J. H. Lefroy, comp., Memorials of the
Discovery and Early Settlement of the Bermudas or
Somers Islands, 1515-1685, 2 vols. (London,
1877). 
Mourt's Relation  Relation Or Journall of the beginning and
proceedings of the English Plantation Setled at
Plimouth ... (London, 1622) [Extracts from
William Bradford's and Edward Winslow's
journals, with a preface by G. Mourt]. 
NEHGR  New England Historical and Genealogical Register. 
OED  Oxford English Dictionary, 13 vols. (Oxford,
1933). 
Purchas, Pilgrimes  Samuel Purchas, Hakluytus Posthumus, or 
Purchas His Pilgrimes ..., 4 vols. (London,
1625). 
Quinn, Roanoke Voyages  David Beers Quinn, ed., The Roanoke Voyages,
1584-1590, 2 vols. (Hakluyt Society, 2d Ser.,
CIV-CV [London, 1955]). 
Sabin, Dictionary  Joseph Sabin et al., eds., A Dictionary of Books
Relating to America, 29 vols. (New York,
1868-1936). 
STC  A. W. Pollard and G. R. Redgrave, comps., A
Short-Title Catalogue of Books Printed in England,
Scotland, and Ireland, 1475-1640, 2 vols.
(London, 1926; repr. 1969). 
Strachey, Historie  William Strachey, The Historie of Travell into
Virginia Britania, ed. Louis B. Wright and
Virginia Freund (Hakluyt Society, 2d Ser.,
CIII [London, 1953]). 
VMHB  Virginia Magazine of History and Biography. 
Winslow, Good Newes  E[dward] W[inslow], Good Newes from New-England
... (London, 1624). 
WMQ  William and Mary Quarterly. 

WORKS BY CAPT. JOHN SMITH

                       
Accidence  An Accidence or The Path-way to Experience.
Necessary for all Young Sea-men ... (London,
1626). 
Advertisements  Advertisements For the unexperienced Planters of
New England, or any where ... (London, 1631). 
Broadside  Broadside prospectus of The Generall Historie of
Virginia ... (London, 1623). 
Description of N.E.  A Description of New England: or The Observations,
and discoveries, of Captain John Smith ... in the
North of America ... (London, 1616). 
Generall Historie  The Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England,
and the Summer Isles ... (London, 1624). 
"Letter to Bacon"  Letter to Sir Francis Bacon (1618). 
Map of Va.  A Map of Virginia. With a Description of the
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Countrey, the Commodities, People, Government and
Religion (Oxford, 1612). 
New Englands Trials
(1620) and (1622) 		 New Englands Trials ... (London, 1620, 1622). 
Proceedings  The Proceedings of the English Colonie in Virginia
since their first beginning from England in ... 1606,
till this present 1612 ... (Oxford, 1612) [Pt. II
of Map of Va.]. 
Sea Grammar  A Sea Grammar ... (London, 1627). 
True Relation  A True Relation of such occurrences and accidents of
noate as hath hapned in Virginia ... (London,
1608). 
True Travels  The True Travels, Adventures, and Observations of
Captaine John Smith ... (London, 1630). 

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