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A Selected Bibliography of Virginia, 1607-1699

Chapter 3: BIBLIOGRAPHIES AND GUIDES
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This bibliography compiles a curated list of primary and secondary sources on seventeenth-century Virginia intended for general readers and beginning researchers. Entries are arranged for browsing, with guides and bibliographies, thematic sections on topics such as Jamestown, social life, economy, law, religion, Indians, Bacon's Rebellion, maps, and biography, and a chronological sequence of primary materials from before 1607 through 1699. Citations are abbreviated but provide enough bibliographic detail for locating original editions, reprints, and reproductions in libraries. Editors note selection criteria and collaborators, and emphasize economy of format while aiming to include works that have endured scholarly use.

BIBLIOGRAPHIES AND GUIDES

Abbot, William W. A Virginia chronology, 1585-1783. Williamsburg, 1957. (Jamestown 350th anniversary historical booklet, No. 2.)

Association for Preservation of Virginia Antiquities. Yearbook. Richmond, 1896-date.

Brock, Robert A. Virginia, 1606-1689 [with a critical essay on the sources of information]. In: Winsor, Narrative and critical history, v. 3, p. 127-68.

Brown University. John Carter Brown library. Bibliotheca Americana; catalogue of the ... library. Providence, R. I., 1919-1931. 3 v.

Cole, George W. A catalogue of books relating to the discovery and early history of North and South America forming a part of the library of E. D. Church. N. Y., 1907. 5 v.

Eames, Wilberforce. A bibliography of Captain John Smith. N. Y., 1927. 48 p.

[Kennett, White]. Bibliothecae Americanae primordia. An attempt towards laying the foundation of an American library. London, 1713. 283 p.

Kingsbury, Susan M. An introduction to the records of the Virginia company of London with a bibliographical list of the extant documents. Washington, 1905. 214 p.

Reprinted: Kingsbury, Records of the Virginia company, v. 1, p. 11-206.

New York (City). Public Library. List of works in the New York public library relating to Virginia. N. Y., 1907. 71 p.

Phillips, Philip L. List of books relating to America in the register of the London company of stationers, from 1562-1638. Am. hist. assoc., Report (1896), v. 1, p. 1249-61.

____ Virginia cartography; a bibliographical description. Washington, 1896. 85 p. (Smithsonian institution publication, no. 1039)

Sabin, Joseph. Bibliotheca Americana. A dictionary of books relating to America, from its discovery to the present time. N. Y., 1868-1936. 29 v.

Stanard, William G. The colonial Virginia register. Albany, N. Y., 1902. 249 p.

____ The Virginia archives. Am. hist. assoc., Report, 1903, v. 1, p. 645-64.

Swem, Earl G. Bibliography of Virginia. Richmond, 1916-19. 3 v.

____ Maps relating to Virginia in the Virginia state library. Richmond, 1914. [33]-263 p. (Virginia state library, Bulletin, v. 7, nos. 2-3.)

____ Virginia historical index. Roanoke, Va., 1934-36. 2 v.

Torrence, William C. A trial bibliography of colonial Virginia. Richmond, 1908-10. 2 v. (Virginia state library, 5th-6th report, 1908-10.)

Virginia historical society. Catalogue of the manuscripts. Richmond, 1901. 120 p.

Virginia State Library. Calendar of transcripts [in the Virginia State Library]. Richmond, 1905. 658, xliv p.

Winsor, Justin. Maryland and Virginia [with a critical bibliography]. In his: Narrative and critical history, v. 5, p. 259-84.