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[Americana] Smith, Samuel, The History of the Colony of
[Americana] Smith, Samuel
The History of the Colony of Nova-Caesaria, or New-Jersey: Containing, An Account of its First Settlement, Progressive Improvements, the Original and Present Constitution, and Other Events, to the Year 1721...
Burlington, New-Jersey: James Parker, 1765. First edition. 8vo. x, 573, (1) (errata) pp. 19th-century ownership signatures of George H. Burr and Rebecca Burr on title-page and front free endpaper; book-plate of Alfred Cooper, grand nephew of George H. Burr, on front paste-down. Full contemporary calf, boards and joints rubbed, extremities worn, front and rear boards scratched, stamped in gilt, red leather spine label; all edges trimmed; foxing and toning to prelims, some foxing and soiling to text, occasional underlining in pencil; newspaper clippings tipped in on first blank leaf and verso of second rear blank; old collator's notes on rear paste-down. Evans 10166; Felcone 243; Howes S661; Miller 853. First edition of the first history of New Jersey, and one of approximately 600 copies printed. Printed by James Parker on a press owned by Benjamin Franklin.
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[Americana] Smith, Samuel
The History of the Colony of Nova-Caesaria, or New-Jersey: Containing, An Account of its First Settlement, Progressive Improvements, the Original and Present Constitution, and Other Events, to the Year 1721...
Burlington, New-Jersey: James Parker, 1765. First edition. 8vo. x, 573, (1) (errata) pp. 19th-century ownership signatures of George H. Burr and Rebecca Burr on title-page and front free endpaper; book-plate of Alfred Cooper, grand nephew of George H. Burr, on front paste-down. Full contemporary calf, boards and joints rubbed, extremities worn, front and rear boards scratched, stamped in gilt, red leather spine label; all edges trimmed; foxing and toning to prelims, some foxing and soiling to text, occasional underlining in pencil; newspaper clippings tipped in on first blank leaf and verso of second rear blank; old collator's notes on rear paste-down. Evans 10166; Felcone 243; Howes S661; Miller 853. First edition of the first history of New Jersey, and one of approximately 600 copies printed. Printed by James Parker on a press owned by Benjamin Franklin.
