J.5
Douglass’s hist. of North America.
2. v.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 23. no. 20, Douglas’s Summary of the British settlements in America, 2 v 8vo.
DOUGLASS,
William.
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. Vol. I [II] . . .
London: Printed for
R. and J. Dodsley,
MDCCLX. [1760]
E188 .D75
Third Edition. 2 vol. 8vo. vol. I, 289 leaves, engraved map (lacking in this copy); vol. II, 211 leaves; in vol. II is
A Digression concerning the small-pox.
Vol. I rebound in buckram in 1915 by the Library of Congress, vol. II is in the original calf and shows definite signs of
damage by the fire of 1851; some leaves wormed. Both volumes are initialled by Jefferson at sigs. I and T; corrections in
pencil and in ink occur. In vol. I, on A
4 is a pencilled note not in Jefferson’s hand.
This book is entered twice in Jefferson’s dated manuscript catalogue: The first time as above, the second time, in longer form, after Oldmixon’s
British Empire in America
, no. 470,
infra, this entry being the one copied in the 1815 catalogue. The entry in the undated manuscript catalogue has the price,
5/6.
William Douglass, c. 1691-1752, a Scottish physician who settled in Boston in 1718, and took an active and opposing part in the inoculation
for small-pox controversy caused by the epidemic of 1721. He later became convinced of the efficacy of inoculation and in
the
Digression printed in this book acknowledged it to be a
most beneficial improvement.
This work was originally published in numbers from 1747-1751, and was left incomplete owing to the death of the author in
1752. The first edition in book form appeared in Boston in 1749, 51, and the second edition, of which this is a word for word
reprint, in Boston, 1755.
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6
Review of the military operations in N. America.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 25. no. 23, as above.
[LIVINGSTON,
William.]
A Review of the military operations in North-America; from the Commencement of the French Hostilities on the Frontiers of
Virginia, in 1753, to the Surrender of Oswego, on the 14th of August, 1756 . . . In a letter to a Nobleman.
New-York: Printed by
Alexander and James Robertson,
1770.
E199 .L786
8vo. in fours. 85 leaves.
Halkett and Laing V, page 113.
Sabin 41649.
This edition not in Church.
Evans 11701.
Thomson, no. 725.
William Livingston, 1723-1790, first Governor of the State of New Jersey. This book was first printed in London in 1757, and the authorship
has been ascribed also to William Smith, the historian of New York.
The work is a defense of the conduct of Governor William Shirley in the Lake George campaign, and the facts are said to have
been supplied by William Alexander, soi-disant Earl of Stirling, the brother-in-law of Livingston. The book is reprinted in
the Massachusetts Historical Society Collections, vol. VII.
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History of the present war 1775.
2. v.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 24. no. 40, History of the present war [1775] 2d vol. 8vo.
The History of the War in America, between Great Britain and her Colonies, from its commencement to the end of the year 1778
. . . To which is added, A Collection of Interesting and Authentic Papers tending to elucidate the History.
