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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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| Status | Vol/Date | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building M1A to submit a request in person. | v. 2 | Text | Use in library | Map Div. 97-6220 v. 2 | Schwarzman Building M1A - Map Division Room 117 |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building M1A to submit a request in person. | v. 1 | Text | Use in library | Map Div. 97-6220 v. 1 | Schwarzman Building M1A - 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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- Research Call Number
- *KF 1755 (Douglass, W. Summary, historical and political, of the first planting, progressive improvements)Map Div. 97-6220 [LHS 3019, atlas cases]