COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Books Internet Archive
Record
Author:
Wood, William, active 1629-1635.
Author (contributor):
Indigenous Languages Digitization Project (John Carter Brown Library)
Author (contributor):
Crowninshield, Edward A., 1817-1859
Title:
New Englands prospect. : A true, lively, and experimentall description of that part of America, commonly called New England: discovering the state of that countrie, both as it stands to our new-come English planters; and to the old native inhabitants. Laying downe that which may both enrich the knowledge of the mind-travelling reader, or benefit the future voyager. /
Publisher:
by Tho Cotes for Iohn Bellamie and are to be sold at his shop at the three golden lyons in Corne-hill neere the Royall Exchange
Begin Publication Date:
1634
MMS Id (Alma identifier):
991004235039706966
Permanent Call Number:
[R] D634 .W881n
Statistics Note 1 (Accession Number):
STAT_NOTE_1_ACCESSION #: 02748
Subjects:
Indians of North America--Massachusetts.
Subjects:
Massachuset language--Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.
Subjects:
New England--Description and travel.
Subjects:
Massachusetts--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Subjects:
Indian linguistics--Massachuset language.
Subjects:
Imprint 1634.
General Note:
"Earliest topographical account of the Massachusetts Colony by a resident of four years."--Vail, R.W.G. Voice of the old frontier, p. 87.; Map has caption: The south part of New-England, as it is planted this yeare, 1634.; Signatures: A-O⁴ (O4 verso blank); "Errata."--p. [8], 1st count.; Includes selection of vocabulary in the Massachuset language: p. [1-5], 3rd group.; Woodcut ornament on title page; head and tail pieces; initials.
Local Note:
Provenance of the John Carter Brown Library: E.A. Crowninshield: bookplate.