[Rarebooks] fs: British Empire in America, 1741 facsimile, maps, 2 vols.

[Back Creek Books]

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(No. 9173 )  Oldmixon, John (1673-1742). THE BRITISH EMPIRE IN AMERICA, 
CONTAINING THE HISTORY OF THE DISCOVERY, SETTLEMENT, PROGRESS AND STATE OF 
THE BRITISH COLONIES ON THE CONTINENT AND ISLANDS OF AMERICA (IN TWO 
VOLUMES).
New York: Augustus M. Kelley Publisher, 1969. Reprint, Full cloth, Octavos, 
[4], xxxvi, 568 & [4], [ii], 478 pages, Fold-out maps. Fine.
      Important history of the colonies, originally published in 1708, which 
was Oldmixon's first historical work. This is a quality facsimile reprint 
(NOT one of those wretched 'print-on-demand' things) of the revised and 
corrected second edition of 1741 with its 8 fold-out maps prepared by Herman 
Moll. Volume I covers the continental colonies and volume II the island 
colonies. Olmixon had the great challenge of preparing this work from 
accounts and memoirs supplied to him by persons with firsthand knowledge and 
experience--and often ongoing interests--in the individual colonies. As he 
states in his Preface, "Every Province was the best, the most advantageous, 
the most inviting; and if [I] did not give that Account of it, the History 
would be worth nothing." See HOWES #O61; SABIN #57157. Bound in brown 
leather-patterned cloth over boards with gilt lettering and ornaments on 
spines, black and red title blocks on spines, upper boards lettered and 
border-ruled in gilt. Volume I shows a slight spot of soil to bottom fore 
corner of textblock and a spine that is very slightly fallen in. Otherwise 
both volumes clean and bright with snug bindings.    $250.00
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