JAMESTOWN.
VAN DER AA, PIETER. Scheeps-togt van Anthony Chester na Virginia, gedaan in het Jaar 1620. Leyden: Pieter Vander AA, [1707].
Folio (347 x 220 mm). [4] leaves. Vignette engraving to title, engraving inset in-text, small woodcut initial, woodcut tailpieces. Recent marbled boards with printed paper label to upper cover.
DUTCH ACCOUNT OF THE MASSACRE AT JAMESTOWN. Purportedly an eyewitness account "from internal evidence, although it is clear that Vander Aa's Chester volume was created from two chapters of Captain John Smith's Generall Historie of Virginia" (Mardis, Allen Jr, "Visions of James Fort," The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Oct 1989, pp 463-498). Sabin 12528 (8vo ed).
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