(EARLY AMERICAN IMPRINTS) Douglass William A Summary Histori

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(EARLY AMERICAN IMPRINTS.) Douglass, William. A Summary, Historical and Political, of the . . . British Settlements in North-America. 2 volumes. [2], iii, [3], 568; [4], 416 pages. 8vo, contemporary unmatched calf, moderate wear, rejointed; first volume with moderate dampstaining, second volume lacking free endpapers, inked doodles on title page, minor dampstaining and wear; first volume with 1756 owner's signatures and early 20th century library markings including inked stamps on title page, second volume with unknown family's 1766-73 birth register on front pastedown. Boston: Rogers and Fowle / Daniel Fowle, 1749 and 1751 [1752]

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First edition in book form of what Howes calls the first American history of the whole country (it was originally issued in parts beginning in 1747). Douglass was a physician from Scotland who had settled in Boston. His "Digression Concerning the Small-Pox" which concludes Volume II is a highlight; it was written after a Boston epidemic which ended in July 1752. Clark, Old South 226-2; Evans 6307, 6663; Guerra a-231; Howes D436 ("b"); Sabin 20726.