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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. ; Vol. I [-Vol. II. Part I]. ; [One line from Cicero].
Originally issued in numbers of 16 pages, each with cover-title; volume 1, Jan. 1747-May 1749; volume 2, April 1750-Nov. 1752. Left unfinished at the author's death in October 1752.
Some copies of volume 1 have the severe characterization of Admiral Knowles found in number 15 (pages 235-238) as issued separately, but, owing to a suit for libel, omitted from most copies of the bound volume.
Imprint of volume 2 varies: Boston: Printed and sold by Daniel Fowle in Queen-Street; where may be had the first volume bound or stitch'd. Also some odd numbers to compleat imperfect setts. 1751 [i.e., 1752]. The table of contents for volume 2 covers material through page 296 only.
Volume 1: [2], iii, [3], 568 pages; volume 2: [4], 416 pages Page 464 of volume 1 misnumbered 456.
Signatures, volume 1: [A]⁴ B-N⁴ ²N⁴ O-V⁴ W⁴ X-2U⁴ 2W⁴ 2X-3U⁴ 3W⁴ 3X-3Y⁴ (C1 missigned B); volume 2: [A]² B-U⁴ W⁴ X-2U⁴ 2W⁴ 2X-3E⁴.
"A digression concerning the small-pox."--volume 2, pages 392-414.
Microform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series.
Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2002-2004. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 6307).
Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2002-2004. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 6663).