Sep 24, 2020 - Sale 2546

Sale 2546 - Lot 223

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(TRAVEL.) William Douglass. A Summary, Historical and Political, of the First Planting . . . British Settlements in North-America. Folding map, hand-colored in outline. 2 volumes. [2], iv, [4], 568; [6], 416 pages. 8vo, contemporary calf, moderate wear, joints split, lacking volume number labels; map trimmed with loss of neatline on bottom edge and 3-inch closed tear, minor foxing, a few leaves unopened, dealer descriptions mounted to first rear pastedown, lacking the 4 ad leaves; later bookplates on front pastedowns. London, 1755
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First English edition in book form of what Howes calls the first American history of the whole country. It marks the first appearance of the folding map by Thomas Jefferys, not present in all copies, titled "North America from the French of Mr. D'Anville Improved with the Back Settlements of Virginia and Course of Ohio Illustrated with Geographical and Historical Remarks." Douglass was a physician from Scotland who had settled in Boston. His "Digression Concerning the Small-Pox" near the end of Volume II is a highlight. Guerra a-231n; Howes D436 ("aa"); Sabin 20727 ("no copy has yet been found, in its original state, with the map").