Wright, Louis B. (Louis Booker), ed. Newes from the New-World, Wherein May Be Seene the Excellent Qualities of the Beastes of the Fields, the Fish, and Fowl, As Well As the Singular and Rare Vertues of the Earth and Air of That Goodly Land. 1946.

Scope and content:

Four small samples of promotional writings by adventurers to the New World, in support of English colonization. Included are a 1608 letter from Peter Wynne at Jamestown, an excerpt from Alexander Whitaker's Good Newes from Virginia, and a 1624 letter by John Smith presenting a copy of his Generall Historie of Virginia to the Society of Cordwainers of London.

Physical location:

[Los Angeles]: Imprinted by Anderson & Ritchie for the said Companie of the Friends of the Huntington Library,

Physical description:

29 pp.; facsim.

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