A summary, historical and political, of the first planting, progressive improvements, and present state of the British settlements in North-America. Vol. I[-Vol. II, Pt. I] ... / [William Douglass].

Boston (Mass.) : Rogers and Fowle, 1749-1751.

2 volumes ; (8vo)

ESTC W29504

Evans, 6307

Evans, 6663

Evans 6307, 6663

Originally issued in numbers: v. 1, Jan. 1747-May 1749; v. 2, Apr. 1750-Aug.(?) 1752. Left unfinished at the author's death in Oct. 1752

The author abandoned his plan to write the appendix, which would have constituted v. 2, pt. 2. Cf. v. 1, p. ii; v. 2, p. 392-393

Vol. 2, pt. 1 has imprint: Boston, Printed and sold by Daniel Fowle ... where may be had the first volume bound or stitch'd. Also some odd numbers to compleat imperfect setts. 1751

Vol. 2 was apparently issued in various stages of completion as the separate parts were published. The Library of Congress copy bears an imprint date of 1750 and this copy is dated 1751; yet 1752 is given as the date of writing on p. 366 and 370, and frequent references to that year occur on later pages. The table of contents in this copy ends with the section on New Jersey (p. 267-296) and after p. 296 there is a blank leaf unaccounted for in the signatures, indicating where the volume originally ended

Vol. 2 was reissued after the author's death with additions (p. 417-440, "from Mr. Salmon's Geographic and historical grammar, printed in London, 1757") Boston, 1753 [i. e. 1758]

"A medical digression, concerning the personal constitutions of people born in British North America, of the endemial distempers prevalent there