The history of America /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Dublin :
Printed for Messrs. Price, Whitestone, W. Watson, Corcoran, R. Cross, Sleater, Sheppard, Chamberlaine, Potts, J. Hoey, Fitzsimons, Williams, E. Lynch, S. Watson, W. Colles, W. Wilson, Moncrieffe, Walker, Exshaw, M. Hay, Armitage, Porter, Hallhead, T. Stewart, Flin, Faulkner, Burnet, Jenkin, Mills, Beatty, Spotswood, Gilbert, Vallance, P. Wilson, R. Stewart, P. Hoey, Wogan, E. Cross, Macelrath, Higley, White, Kidd, Grueber, Hillary, M'Kenly, and Magee,
M, DCC, LXXVII [1777]
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| Series: | Blake ;
no. 1346. |
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| Item Description: | Originally published: London, 1777, in two volumes in quarto. One of two octavo editions published in Dublin in 1777, this one in three volumes. Contains Books I-VIII, the history of the discovery of America and the conquest of Mexico and Peru. Signatures: v. 1: [a]⁴ b⁸ B-S⁸ ([a]1 verso, [a]2 verso, b5 verso, b8 verso, E5 verso, M8 verso, R3 verso, R4 verso blank); v. 2: [A]² B-2B⁸ 2C² ([A]1 verso, [A]2 verso, X7 verso, X8 verso, 2C2 verso blank); v. 3: [A]² B-2B⁸ ([A]1 verso, [A]2 verso, O3 verso, U1 verso, Z6 verso, 2A6 verso, 2B8 verso blank). Volume 1: page 175 misnumbered as 157; volume 3: page 313 as 113. Plates (2) unnumbered; portrait of William Robertson serves as frontispiece in volume 1. The Cushing Library/Rare Books copy was acquired as part of the Lois Goddard Morrison Collection of Eighteenth Century Literature. "Short account of what is contained in the letter sent to the Emperor, mentioned Preface, page xi." (volume 3: pages [349]-350) |
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| Physical Description: | 3 volumes (v. 1: xvii, [7], 272 p., [1] leaf of plates; v. 2: [4], 387, [1] p., [1] folded leaf of plates; v. 3: [4], 363, [21] p.) : illustrations, portrait ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index, among them: "A catalogue of Spanish books and manuscripts." (volume 3: pages [351]-363) |