ROGERS ROBERT A Concise Account of North America 1765

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ROGERS, ROBERT. A Concise Account of North America. vii, [1], 264 pages. 8vo, contemporary calf, minor wear; front endpapers renewed, minor foxing, just a bit of vermin damage to upper corner; early owner's signature on title page, later bookplate on front pastedown. London, 1765

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first edition. A history and description of British North America, by a French and Indian War major from New Hampshire. Concludes with a 60-page chapter titled "Customs, Manners &c of the Indians." "Based largely on personal knowledge, this was the first geographical account of the American interior after England had wrested it from France, and, aside from those by Pittman and Hutchins, the most accurate of the period"--Howes R418 ("b"). Graff 3554; Greenly 17; Lande 761; Sabin 72723; Streeter sale II:1028; Vail 562.