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[CAPE BRETON]. The Great Importance of Cape Breton, Demonstrated and Exemplified, By Extracts from the best Writers, French and English, who have treated of that Colony. London: Printed for John Brindley, 1746.
8o (199 x 120 mm). Engraved folding map. Disbound.
FIRST EDITION. "An important argument for Britain's retaining Cape Breton, with citations from Charlevoix's just published Histoire ... de la Nouvelle France, as well as from Pepperell, Gibson, Chauncy, and Auchmuty. The extent of New England economic rivalry with New France is made clear" (Streeter II:1002). Not in Gagnon, Vlach, or Lande. Can. Arch. I, 122; Dionne II, 451; Howes C121; Sabin 28448; Staton & Tremaine/TPL 6391; Waldon, p. 304.
8o (199 x 120 mm). Engraved folding map. Disbound.
FIRST EDITION. "An important argument for Britain's retaining Cape Breton, with citations from Charlevoix's just published Histoire ... de la Nouvelle France, as well as from Pepperell, Gibson, Chauncy, and Auchmuty. The extent of New England economic rivalry with New France is made clear" (Streeter II:1002). Not in Gagnon, Vlach, or Lande. Can. Arch. I, 122; Dionne II, 451; Howes C121; Sabin 28448; Staton & Tremaine/TPL 6391; Waldon, p. 304.