The English New England Voyages 1602-1608 by David Beers Quinn (1909-2002) and Alison M Quinn (editors) - 1983

xxiv+580 pages with 20 maps, 16 illustrations, appendices, bibliography and index. Documents published and unpublished including one on maps of New England 1606-1610, and one (by Philip L. Barbour) on an early vocabulary of an Algonkian language. Octavo (8 3/4" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine and pictorial representation of the ship Victoria embossed on front cover with cover edges blind ruled in original jacket. Works issued by the Hakluyt Society, second series, volume 161. First edition.

The publication of the narrative accounts of the voyages of Gisnold (1602) and Waymouth (1605) opened up for English readers what was then known as Norumbega, the later New England; They are the first documents of exploration of that region to have been published since that of Verrazzano's voyage (1524) in 1556. Condition:

Musty smell. Jacket rubbed at spine ends and edges else a better than very good copy in like jacket.