A description of the English province of Carolana : By the Spaniards call'd Florida, and by the French, La Louisiane ... : with a large and curious preface, demonstrating the right of the English to that country, and the unjust manner of the French usurping of it ... : to which is added, a large and accurate map of Carolana, and of the river Meschacebe / by Daniel Coxe, Esq.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Coxe, Daniel, 1673-1739.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Coxe, Daniel, 1640-1730.
• Mississippi River Valley--Description and travel.
• Mississippi River Valley.
• Southern States--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
• Southern States.
• History.

Penn Provenance:

• Coxe, Alexander B. (bookplate) (copy 2)
• Yarnall, Charlton, Estate of (donor) (copy 2)

Physical Description:

54 unnumbered pages, 122 pages ; 21 cm (8vo)

Other Title:

Carolana.

Place of Publication:

[London] : Printed for and sold by Olive Payne at Horace's Head in Pope's-Head Alley, Cornhill, opposite the Royal Exchange, 1741.

Notes:

• The province of Carolana, claimed by the author's father as proprietor under a grant originally made to Robert Heath by King Charles I, included the territory extending from the Atlantic Ocean to New Mexico, between the 30th and 36th parallels of latitude.
• A reissue with different t.p. of the ed. of 1722 (previously reissued in 1726 and 1727); also issued as part of the author's "A collection of voyages and travels, in three parts" ([London], 1741).
• Signatures: [A]1 B8 c-d8 e2 A-H8 I4 K1 (1B3 signed B5)
• Includes frontispiece (folded map), "A map of Carolana and of the river Meschacebe, & c."

Cited in:

• ESTC T132923
• Sabin 17281

OCLC:

654431