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A summary, historical and political, of the first planting, progressive improvements, and present state of the British settlements in North-America ...

Title
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. ... Boston, New-England, Printed
Author
Douglass, William, approximately 1700-1752.
Publication
London, re-printed for R. Baldwin, 1755.

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v. 2TextUse in library Map Div. 97-6220 v. 2Schwarzman Building - Map Division Room 117
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Description
2 v.; 20.5 cm.
Donor/Sponsor
  • Lawrence H. Slaughter Collection ; 3019.
  • National Endowment for the Humanities Grant for Access to Early Maps of the Middle Atlantic Seaboard.
Subjects
Note
  • 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 N.Y.P.L. 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. Evans in 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," pages 417-440 were added ("in order to render this work more compleat, the following is collected from Mr. Salmon's Geographical and historical grammar, printed in London 1757") [i.e. the 6th ed. 1758 with title: A new geographical grammar) events to Nov. 1758 being included]
  • "A digression concerning the smallpox"; v. 2, p. 392-414.
  • With bookplate of Thomas Dampier in v.1.
Indexed In (note)
  • Sabin
Call Number
*KF 1755 (Douglass, W. Summary, historical and political, of the first planting, progressive improvements)
LCCN
02013414 //r26
OCLC
2000629
Author
Douglass, William, approximately 1700-1752.
Title
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. ... Boston, New-England, Printed:
Imprint
London, re-printed for R. Baldwin, 1755.
Indexed In:
Sabin, 20727
Local Note
Copy in Map Div. 97-6220 lacks bookplate.
Map of "North America from the French of Mr. D'Anville ... May 1755 Published ... by Thos. Jefferys," inserted as front. to v.1.
Copy in Map Div. 97-6220: Lawrence H. Slaughter Collection.
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*KF 1755 (Douglass, W. Summary, historical and political, of the first planting, progressive improvements)
Map Div. 97-6220 [LHS 3019, atlas cases]
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