An account of the European settlements in America : in six parts ... each part contains an accurate description of the settlements in it, their extent, climate, productions, trade, genius and disposition of their inhabitants, the interests of the several powers of Europe with respect to those settlements and their political and commercial views with regard to each other : in two volumes
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- Name
- Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797
- Burke, William, 1730-1798
- Title
- An account of the European settlements in America : in six parts ... each part contains an accurate description of the settlements in it, their extent, climate, productions, trade, genius and disposition of their inhabitants, the interests of the several powers of Europe with respect to those settlements and their political and commercial views with regard to each other : in two volumes
- Collection Name
- Seymour B. Durst Old York Library Collection
- Subjects
- America--Discovery and exploration--Early works to 1800.; America--Description and travel--Early works to 1800.
- Format
- books
- Genre
- books
- Publication Information
- Printed for R. and J. Dodsley: London
- Date
- 1757
- Physical Description
- 2 v. : maps ; 20 cm. (8vo)
- Note
- First edition
- Probably a collaboration of Edmund and William Burke. Cf. ESTC
- Vol. 1: [4], 312 p., [1] leaf of plates (folded map); v. 2: 300, [20] p., [1] leaf of plates (folded map)
- Contents
- (from t.p.) I. A short history of the discovery of that part of the world -- II. The manners and customs of the original inhabitants -- III. Of the Spanish settlements -- IV. Of the Portuguese -- V. Of the French, Dutch and Danish -- VI. Of the English.
- Catalog Record
- 6123417
- Also In
- Seymour B. Durst Old York Library
- Persistent URL
- https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/D8QV3SWG
- Related URLs
- v.1
- v.2