A summary, historical and political, of the first planting, progressive improvements, and present state of the British settlements in North-America / By William Douglass, M.D.

  • Douglass, William, approximately 1700-1752.
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1755
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Boston, New-England ; London : re-printed for : R. Baldwin, 1755.

Physical description

2 volumes : frontispiece (folded map) ; (8vo)

Notes

Originally issued in numbers: v. 1, Jan. 1747-May 1749; v. 2, April 1750-Aug. (?) 1752, but not printed in the "American magazine" as first announced by the publisher; left unfinished at the author's death in October 1752
The subtitle of the two volumes specifying the content varies accordingly
At end of table of contents of v. 1 is printed the direction "Place the map to face the title of vol. I"; the three maps described in the Introduction to v. 2, p. 20-21 ("originals composed and lately printed in the several countries") are wanting in this copy and in all L. C. copies of different editions of the "Summary"; the "map of the dominions of New-Englnd," and that of "New-York, the Jersies and Pensylvania, published 1749, by Mr. Evansin Pensylvania", are found separately in the map collection of the Library of Congress
The second volume ends at p. 416 (end of section XVI, Virginia); in a re-issue [1758?] of v. 2, with t.-p. "Boston ...1753" prefixed, pages 417-440 were added ("in order to render this work more compleat, the following is collected from Mr. Salmon's Geographic and historical grammar, printed in London 1757") [i.e. the 6th ed. 1758, events to Nov. 1758 being included]
"A digression concerning the smallpox"; v. 2, p. 392-414.
Copy 1 Vol. 1 Note: Almost all of frontispiece wanting.

References note

ESTC T145903
Maslen and Lancaster. Bowyer ledgers, 3967

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