Document Record

Creator

Stirling, William Alexander, Earl of, 1567?-1640., author

Title

An encouragement to colonies

Published

London : W. Stansby, 1624.

Identifier

oocihm.13904
13904

Subject

Colonization.
Colonisation.
America -- Colonization.
Canada -- Colonization.
Amérique -- Colonisation.
Canada -- Colonisation.

Document source

Electronic reproduction.

Notes

"Alter erit tum Tiphis, & altera quae vehat Argos delectos Heroas."
A sketch of the history of colonization, with an account of the first settling of the northern parts of America, particularly Canada, by the French.
Contains the dedicatory letter of 1624 issue, addressed to Prince Charles, which was omitted from the re-issue of 1630.
Original (reprint of 1867) issued in series : Bannatyne Club. Publications ; volume 114--Canadiana 1867-1900.
Reprint (made in Edinburgh, 1867) of the 1624 edition by W. Stansby, London--National Union Catalog pre-1956 imprints.
With t.p. of re-issue : The mapp and description of New-England ; together with a discourse of plantation, and collonies : also, a relation of the nature of the climate, and how it agrees with our owne country England ; how neere it lyes to New-foundland, Virginia, Noua Francia, Canada, and other parts of the West-Indies ... London : Printed for Nathaniel Bvtter, 1630.
47 pages : map ; 27 cm.

Collection

Monographs

Language

English

URL

https://www.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.13904