De Importantie en Voordeeligheid van Kaap-Breton, Aangetoont in Eene Naauwkeurige Beschryving van dat Beruchte Eiland , het welk Volgens bet Verhaal van Zekeren vermaarden Franschen Schryver, meer Waardig is dan de Goudmynen van Peru

Bollan, William

Verlag: Reiner Boitet, 1746

Beschreibung

Te Delft: Reiner Boitet, 1746. 8vo, 192 p., original marbled wraps with two folding maps at rear. First edition in Dutch of "The Importance of Cape Breton Truly Illustrated" (London, 1746), this is Bollan's treatise on the strategic and economic importance of Cape Breton until the siege of Louisbourg in 1745 after which time the English gained temporary control over the region. Bollan (c. 1710-1776) was an English lawyer who settled in Massachusetts where he married a daughter of Governor Shirley. He penned this treatise while in London, where he had been sent as an agent of the Massachusetts Bay Colony to secure repayment for the Cape Breton expedition. During his career Bollan penned no fewer than ten treatises on American affairs, but all of his works are scarce on the market. At rear are two folding maps after Bellin. Book is slightly cocked, wraps soiled and chipped, light soiling and spotting internally; upper text block creased, with heavier creasing to outer margins of last twenty or so pages, but a sound copy of a rare work. OCLC locates just six copies. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers ABE-1707251097091

Bibliografische Details

Titel: De Importantie en Voordeeligheid van ...

Verlag: Reiner Boitet

Erscheinungsdatum: 1746

Einband: Soft cover

Zustand: Very Good

Auflage: 1st Edition