Histoire et commerce des colonies angloises, dans l'Amérique septentrionale, ou l'on trouve l'état actuel de leur population, & des détails curieux sur la constitution de leur gouvernement, principalement sur celui de la Nouvelle-Angleterre, de la Pensilvanie, de la Caroline & de la Géorgie.
London: et se vend à Paris, Chez Le Breton, Desaint, Pissot, Lambert, 1755.
Price: $1,250.00
About the item
First edition, second Issue (no errata on p. xxiv). xxiv, 336 pp. 1 vols. Period full brown calf, morocco label, five raised bands, marbled endpapers. Fine. Howes B 1049; Sabin 9602; Bell B335;J CB Vol. I 1042; Lande 74; Brunet II 101; Kress 5421; Higgs, 1030; INED, 884; Goldsmiths, 9028 ; Conlon 55:545; JFBL B635; Leclerc 241; Echeverria, pp. 15n and 19.
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"This is the first extensive French text on the British North American colonies and was occasioned by the heightened tensions preceding the Seven Years War. It gives accounts of the geography, history, religion, government, economics, trade, and products of the several colonies" (Echeverria & Wilkie).
