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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    non sort: A
    title: summary, historical and political, of the first planting, progressive improvements, and present state of the British settlements in North-America
  title info:
    title: Summary, historical and political
  name:
    name part: Douglass, William
    name part: approximately 1700-1752
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: mau
    date issued: 1749
    date issued: 1752
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: 2 volumes ; 20 cm. (octavo)
  note: By William Douglass, M.D. ; Vol. I [-Vol. II. Part I]. ; [One line from Cicero].
  note: 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.
  note: 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.
  note: 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.
  note: Volume 1: [2], iii, [3], 568 pages; volume 2: [4], 416 pages Page 464 of volume 1 misnumbered 456.
  note: 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.
  note: "A digression concerning the small-pox."--volume 2, pages 392-414.
  note: Electronic resource.
  note: Evans 6307
  note: Evans 6663
  note: Microform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series.
  note: 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).
  note: 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).
  subject:
    topic: Smallpox
    topic: Vaccination
  subject:
    geographic: Great Britain
    topic: Colonies
    geographic: America
  subject:
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
    temporal: Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
  subject:
    hierarchical geographic:
      country: United States
      state: Massachusetts
      city: Boston
  related item:
    note: Evans 6307
  related item:
    note: Evans 6663
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Early American imprints. no. 6307
      part number: Series I
      part name: Evans (1639-1800)
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Early American imprints. no. 6663
      part number: Series I
      part name: Evans (1639-1800)
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
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    location:
      url: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
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    location:
      url: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: MWA
    record creation date: 810720
    record change date: 20260331161725.8
    record identifier: in00002141253