An account of the European settlements in America
Subtitle: 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.
Contributors: Burke, William, 1730-1798.; Randolph, Thomas M. 1768-1828, inscriber.; Thomas Jefferson Library Collection (Library of Congress)
Edition: A new edition, carefully corrected.
Publisher: Printed for J. Dodsley ...
Published: 1766
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Subjects: America -- Discovery and exploration -- Early works to 1800.; America -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800.
Genres: Early works to 1800.
Notes: LC copy has Jefferson's initials on signatures I and T in both volumes. Has inscription on front fly-leaf, v. 2: Thomas Mann Randolph.
Sowerby, E.M.  Cat. of the lib. of Thomas Jefferson, 446
ESTC T164006
NUC pre-1956 NB 0972081
Probably a collaboration of Edmund and William Burke. Cf. NUC pre-1956.
Vol. 1: [6], 310, [6] p.; v. 2: [6], 287, [1] p.
Table of contents: title: (from t.p.) I. A short history of the discovery of that part of the world; title: II. The manners and customs of the original inhabitants; title: III. Of the Spanish settlements; title: IV. Of the Portuguese; title: V. Of the French, Dutch and Danish; title: VI. Of the English.