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A summary, historical and political, of the first planting, progressive improvements, and present state of the British settlements in North-America. / By William Douglass, M. D.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection E188 .D75 2 v. v.1 v.2
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Douglass, William, approximately 1700-1752.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Smallpox.
- United States--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
- United States.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 2 volumes ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : R. and J. Dodsley, 1760.
- Notes:
- Originally issued in numbers: v. 1, Jan. 1747-May 1749; v. 2, April 1750-Aug. (?) 1752, but not printed in the "American magazine" as first announced by the publisher; left unfinished at the author's death in October 1752.
- The subtitle of the two volumes specifying the content varies accordingly.
- The three maps described in the Introduction to v. 2, p. 20-21 ("originals composed and lately printed in the several countries") are wanting in this copy.
- The second volume ends at p. 416 (end of section XVI, Virginia); in a re-issue [1758?] of v. 2, with t.-p., "Boston ... 1753" prefixed, pages 417-440 were added ("in order to render this work more compleat, the following is collected from Mr. Salmon's Geographical and historical grammar, printed in London 1757") [i. e. the 6th ed. 1758, events to Nov. 1758 being included]
- "A digression concerning the smallpox": v. 2, p. 392-414.
- OCLC:
- 3477516
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