From William Reese Company - Americana, New Haven, CT, U.S.A.
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[2],ii,576pp. Contemporary calf, spine gilt. Spine chipped and rubbed, hinges cracked, boards scuffed, edges and corners somewhat worn. Ownership inscription on titlepage. 2 3/4-inch tear from fore-edge of leaf B5. Text block edges dust soiled, text toned and lightly foxed. Good. Howes lists this volume under his entry for Hutchinson's history of Massachusetts, as the third volume, continued from the first volume of 1764 and the second volume of 1767. This copy was bound as a third volume as well, but the book is complete unto itself, published under this different title years after the first two volumes were issued. "This collection of papers was published by Lieut.- Gov. Hutchinson, 'to support and elucidate the principal facts related in the first part of the of the History of Massachusetts Bay, and may serve as an appendix to it.' 'The author of that History was possessed of many other ancient and very curious original papers, which are irrecoverably lost by an unfortunate event sufficiently known.' (This alludes to the destruction of his papers by a mob, at the time of the Riots in Boston on account of the Stamp Act, in 1765.)'" - Rich. "It is sometimes erroneously bound up and lettered as Vol. III of the 'History.' It is a necessary adjunct to Hutchinson's 'History of Massachusetts Bay'" - Sabin. HOWES H853. SABIN 34069. EVANS 11300. REESE & OSBORN, STRUGGLE FOR NORTH AMERICA 65. Seller Inventory # WRCAM40538
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Title: A COLLECTION OF ORIGINAL PAPERS RELATIVE TO ...
Publisher: Printed by Thomas and John Fleet, Boston
Publication Date: 1769
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