Feb 10, 2005 - Sale 2032

Sale 2032 - Lot 57

Price Realized: $ 920
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
COXE, DANIEL. A Description of the English Province of Carolana. By the Spaniards call'd Florida, and by the French, La Louisiane. Folding map in facsimile, laid in. [1], [50], [2], 122 pages. 8vo, contemporary sheep, rebacked with leather at an early date; some foxing and staining; modern cloth slipcase. London, 1741

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The fourth edition of the first English account of Louisiana, first published in 1722. "Bold assertion of the rights of England to the entire gulf region . . . which had beem granted to the author's father, with a description based on a residence there"--Howes C826; Sabin 17281.