ROGERS, Robert (1731-1795). A Concise Account of North America: containing a Description of the several British Colonies on that Continent, including the Islands of Newfoundland, Cape Breton, &c.... also of the Interior or Westerly Parts... London: J. Millan, 1765.
Sale 759 - Selections from the Library of Gerald and Barbara Weiner
Oct 8, 2020
10:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
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Lot Description
ROGERS, Robert (1731-1795). A Concise Account of North America: containing a Description of the several British Colonies on that Continent, including the Islands of Newfoundland, Cape Breton, &c.... also of the Interior or Westerly Parts... London: J. Millan, 1765.
8vo (206 x 125mm). (Short closed marginal tear on H2, leaf U1 with cut across text partially repaired with tissue, minor spotting.) Contemporary calf (rebacked, endpapers renewed, some wear to corners).
FIRST EDITION. “Based largely on personal knowledge, this was the first geographical account of the American interior after England had wrested it from France, and, aside from those by Pittman and Hutchins, the most accurate of the period” (Howes). Major Rogers was sent to receive the capitulation of Western French posts in 1760; en route he met Pontiac, the Ottawa chief, and received his submission to English supremacy. Rogers was also present at the siege of Detroit by Pontiac in 1763. Clark, Old South I:301; ESTC T131446; Greenly, Michigan; Howes R-418; Sabin 72723; Streeter sale II:1028; Vail 562.
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