Virgo triumphans, or, Virginia richly and truly valued; : more especially the south part therof: viz. The fertile Carolana, and no lesse excellent isle of Roanoak, of latitude from 31 to 37 degr. relating the meanes of raising infinite profits to the adventurers and planters

Title Variants

Alternative: Virginia richly and truly valued

Alternative: Virgo triumphans

Uniform: Virgo triumphans

By

Williams, Edward, active 1650-

Ferrar, John, 1590?-1657

Type

Book

Material

Published material

Publication info

London, Printed by Thomas Harper, for John Stephenson and are to be sold at his shop on Ludgate-Hill, at the signe of the Sunne, 1650

Notes

According to "To the reader", pages [13-14], 1st count, much of the material for this work was supplied by John Farrar.

First edition of this work. In this issue, there are errata on page [14], 1st count, and quire I is added, containing a table of contents and a supplement. The second edition, also printed in London, 1650, has title: Virginia: more especially the south part thereof, richly and truly valued.

Includes a discussion of sericulture and wine making on pages 21-45.

Signatures: [A]² (-[A]1) ([A]2 verso blank) B⁴ c² (c1 missigned c3) C-I⁴ (H4 verso blank).

Errors in paging: pages 22, 27, 30, 31, 3rd count, misnumbered 34, 35, 39, 38

Errata: page [14], 1st count.

Woodcut printer's vignette of deer on title page; head pieces; initials.

Vail, R.W.G. Voice of the old frontier, | 120

Church, E.D. Catalogue of books relating to the discovery and early history of North and South America, | 509

Wing, D.G. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America, and of English books printed in other countries, 1641-1700 (2nd ed. 1994), | W2661

Bibliotheca Americana: catalogue of the John Carter Brown Library in Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, | II: pages 404-409

European Americana, | 650/231

English short title catalogue, | R206310

Subjects

Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 , Description and travel , History , Imprint 1650 , North Carolina , Roanoke Island (N.C.) , Sericulture , Silkworms , South Carolina , Virginia , Wine and wine making

Language

English

Identifiers

LCCN: https://lccn.loc.gov/04008397
OCLC: 75087753