KENNETT WHITE Bibliothecæ Americanæ Primordia An Attempt Tow

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KENNETT, WHITE. Bibliothecæ Americanæ Primordia. An Attempt Towards Laying the Foundation of an American Library. 4to, contemporary calf, worn, covers detached; intermittent foxing and toning; inked library and withdrawal stamps on title and final pages. London, 1713 [i.e. 1714]

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"The earliest exclusively American catalogue. . . . It is devoted particularly to the English colonies, and especially to New England. In order to advance the interests of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, White Kennett, Bishop of Peterborough, made a collection of books, charts, maps, and documents, with the intention of writing a history of the propagation of Christianity in the English colonies . . . The catalogue, of which but 250 copies were printed, was prepared with much care, titles being copied at full length with great accuracy"--Church 856. "A fascinating and most useful account of his collection by perhaps the first of the great collectors of historical Americana"--Streeter sale VII:4363. European Americana 1713/104; Sabin 37447.