Streights of Uries; as also of a rich and considerable Trade to be carry’d on from thence to Japan, China and Tartary. VI.
An Account of the useful Animals, Vegetables, Metals, Minerals, and other rich and valuable Commodities, which this Province
naturally produces. VII. An Appendix, containing the original Charter, &c. 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; their prodigious Increase there,
&c. and the inevitable Danger our other Colonies on the Continent will be exposed to, if not timely prevented; interspersed
with many useful Hints, in Regard to our Plantations in General. To which is added, a large and accurate Map of Carolana,
and of the River Meschacebe. By Daniel Coxe, Esq; [
London:] Printed for and sold by
Olive Payne,
1741.
F352 .C87
8vo. 88 leaves, large folded engraved map.
Sabin 17281.
Church 886 (in description of the first edition).
Winsor V, 69.
See Boimare 35.
Entered by Jefferson in his undated manuscript catalogue, with the price,
1/6.
Daniel Coxe, 1673-1739, was the eldest son of Dr. Daniel Coxe of London, the claimant of the Carolana grant. He visited the American
colonies in 1702 and remained until 1716. He returned to New Jersey in 1725, and held various offices. He was the first appointed
Grand Master of Masons in America, and at the time of his death was a judge of the Supreme Court.
The first edition of this book was published in 1722 when Coxe was in London, and was reprinted in 1726, 27, and in 1741.
“The body of the text is devoted to a description of the attractions of the province to the emigrant. The preface contains
an account of the entrance of the Mississippi by the vessel which was turned back by Bienville. The appendix is an argument
in favor of the claimant’s title to the grant, and of England’s title to the Mississippi Valley. It contains a curious story
of a Massachusetts expedition to New Mexico in 1678, and a claim that La Salle’s guides were Indians who accompanied that
expedition.”
Winsor, V, 69.
In the Preface Coxe sets forth what is supposed to have been, in 1722, the date of the first edition, the first printed plan
for a confederation of the colonies. Sig c
1 recto (unpaged) contains the passage: “The only Expedient I can at present think of, or shall presume to mention (with the
utmost Deference to His Majesty and His Ministers) to help and obviate these Absurdities and Inconveniences, and apply a Remedy
to them, is, That All the Colonies appertaining to the Crown of Great Britain on the Northern Continent of America, be United
under a Legal, Regular, and firm Establishment; Over which, it’s propos’d, a Lieutenant, or Supreme Governour, may be constituted,
and appointed to Preside on the Spot, to whom the Governours of each Colony shall be Subordinate . . .”
This edition of 1741 was reprinted in the Collection of Voyages and Travels edited by Coxe, and in other collections.
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Bartram’s travels thro’ the Carolinas, Georgia & Florida
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 121, no. 192, as above.
BARTRAM,
William.
Travels through North & South Carolina, Georgia, East & West Florida, the Cherokee Country, the extensive Territories of the
Muscogulges, or Creek Confederacy, and the Country of the Chactaws; containing an Account of the Soil and Natural Productions
of those Regions, together with Observations on the Manners of the Indians. Embellished with Copper-Plates. By William Bartram.
Philadelphia: Printed by
James & Johnson,
m, dcc, xci
. [1791.]
F213 .B28
