Title
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
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North Carolina
,
Roanoke Island (N.C.)
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Sericulture
,
Silkworms
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South Carolina
,
Virginia
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Wine and wine making
Language
English
Identifiers
LCCN:
https://lccn.loc.gov/04008397
OCLC:
75087753
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