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KEITH, Sir WILLIAM. The History of the British Plantations in America. Title, [6], 187, [1] pages, and two fine folding maps. 8vo, full modern leather, decorated to style with red morocco spine label; minor marginal foxing, slightly more so on the maps, endpapers renewed. London: Society for the Encouragement of Learning, 1738
first edition. The only completed part of a projected series, truncated by a financial failure that would see its author (a one-time Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania) die in debtor's prison two years after the book was published. The scarce map of the Americas includes a representation of California as an island, and the map of the Mid-Atlantic coast is detailed and attractive. Cumming, Southeast in Early Maps, 240 (the regional map); Winsor, Narrative and Critical History of America, Volume III, page 165.
