Research Catalog

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. ...

Author

Douglass, William, approximately 1700-1752.

Publication

London, R. and J. Dodsley, 1760.

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Details

Additional Authors

Bancroft Collection.

Description

2 v.; 21 cm.

Subject

• Smallpox
• United States > History > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775

Note

• 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 are 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 the different editions of the "Summary"; the "map of the dominions of New England", 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 Geoographical 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] (with title: A new geographical in grammar)
• "A digression concerning the smallpox": v. 2, p. 392-414.

Indexed In (note)

• Sabin

Numbering (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.

Call Number

*KF 1760 (Douglass, W. Summary, historical and political)

OCLC

3477516

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. ...

Imprint

London, R. and J. Dodsley, 1760.

Indexed In:

Sabin 20728

Numbering

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.

Local Note

Copy 1: "A new and accurate map of North America ... inscrib'd to ... Charles Townshend ... by Huske. Published for the Present state of North America ... 1755. Tho: Kitchin Sculpt." inserted as front. to v. 1.

Copy 2: Bancroft Collection.

Copy 3: Map bound after p. viii.

Source

No acc. Copy 1

Lenox. Copy 2.

Astor. Copy 3.

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Added Author

Bancroft Collection.

Research Call Number

*KF 1760 (Douglass, W. Summary, historical and political) Copy 1

*KF 1760 (Douglass, W. Summary, historical and political) Copy 2

8-*KF 1760 (Douglass, W. Summary, historical and political) Copy 3