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Oldmixon’s British empire in America.
2. v.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 24. no. 19, as above.
OLDMIXON,
John.
The British Empire in America, Containing the History of the Discovery, Settlement, Progress and present State of all the
British Colonies, on the Continent and Islands of America. In
Two Volumes [-The Second Volume] . . . With curious Maps of the several places, done from the newest surveys. By Hermann Moll, Geographer.
London: Printed for
John Nicholson,
Benjamin Tooke, and
Richard Parker and
Ralph Smith,
1708.
E188 .O44
First Edition. 2 vol. 8vo. vol. I, 226 leaves, 4 folded maps including the frontispiece; vol. II, 213 leaves, 3 folded maps including
the frontispiece. The titles differ in the two volumes according to the contents; in vol. I is the Advertisement:
All Gentlemen, Merchants, or others, who live in our American Colonies, and will communicate any thing to the Author, to be
added or amended in the next Edition of this History, are desir’d to direct it to either of the Booksellers whose Names are
in the Title-Page of this Book, and Care shall be taken to have it inserted.
Lowndes III, page 1722.
Sabin 57156.
Old calf. Initialled by Jefferson at sigs. I and T in each volume. On the back of the titles is the autograph signature of
Will. Spark, who has numbered the maps on the back in ink, and checked them with the list on the titles. Several pencil notes occur, and a passage is deleted in ink. A name on the title-page of vol. II has been cropped by the binder. With the Library of Congress 1822 bookplate.
This book is entered on Jefferson’s undated manuscript catalogue, with the price
3/6.
John Oldmixon, 1673-1742, English historian and pamphleteer. This book was his first historical work, and is dedicated to John Bromley.
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Concise Historic
l acc
t of the British colonies in N. America.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 23. no. 39, as above.
A Concise Historical Account of all the British Colonies in North-America, comprehending their Rise, Progress, and Modern
State; particularly of the Massachusets-Bay, (The Seat of the present Civil War,) together with the other Provinces of New-England
. . .
London: Printed for
J. Bew,
1775.
E188 .C74
First Edition. 8vo. 100 leaves.
Not in Halkett and Laing.
Sabin 15116.
Original tree calf, repaired. Initialled by Jefferson at sig. I. With the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate.
Entered on Jefferson’s undated manuscript catalogue, with the price,
1/3.
The anonymous author of this work states at the end of the preface that
it has cost much pains, and, the author hopes, will meet with a favourable reception.
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The American library.
4
to.
1815 Catalogue, page 25. no. 14, as above.
1831 Catalogue, page 59. no. J. 41, Kennet, White: Bibliothecæ Americanæ Primordia; an Attempt towards laying the Foundation
of an American Library, 4to; London, 1713.
[KENNETT,
White.]
Bibliothecæ Americanæ Primordia. An Attempt Towards laying the Foundation of an American Library, in several Books, Papers,
and Writings, Humbly given to the Society for Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts . . . By a Member of the said Society.
London: Printed for
J. Churchill,
1713.
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