.jpg?w=1)
Details
MARTYN, Benjamin (1699-1763). An Account Showing the Progress of the Colony of Georgia in America from its First Establishment. London, 1741.
2o (316 x 194 mm). 71 pages. Folding engraved map. (Minor offsetting to title.) Contemporary speckled calf, covers with double gilt fillet rules at edges, spine gilt in compartments (extremities rubbed). A FINE, TALL COPY.
FIRST EDITION, with the fine map missing in most copies. THE FIRST HISTORY OF THE PROVINCE OF GEORGIA FROM ITS FOUNDING IN 1732, in the form of a chronological journal interspersed with official documents, letters from Governor Oglethorpe and reports of the "Trustees for establishing the Colony of Georgia in America," of which Martyn was secretary. The fine map, engraved by R.W. Seale, extends to 445 x 315 mm, and depicts in great detail the territory from Charlestown to Savannah and further south to Spanish-held St. Augustin; to the west are several wilderness roads, unnamed settlements and Fort Augusta, with one river labeled "R. undiscovered." Alden & Landis 174/147; Clark Old South I:121; De Renne I, pp.90-91; Howes M-353; Sabin 45000; Streeter II:1145; Vail 411.
[Bound with:] A List of Copies of Charters, From the Commissioners for Trade and Plantations, Presented to the Honourable the House of Commons... London, 1741. 87pp., 2o, bound following the preceding. Containing the full text of the royal charters of Maryland, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts Bay and Georgia. FIRST EDITION. Sabin 41430.
2
FIRST EDITION, with the fine map missing in most copies. THE FIRST HISTORY OF THE PROVINCE OF GEORGIA FROM ITS FOUNDING IN 1732, in the form of a chronological journal interspersed with official documents, letters from Governor Oglethorpe and reports of the "Trustees for establishing the Colony of Georgia in America," of which Martyn was secretary. The fine map, engraved by R.W. Seale, extends to 445 x 315 mm, and depicts in great detail the territory from Charlestown to Savannah and further south to Spanish-held St. Augustin; to the west are several wilderness roads, unnamed settlements and Fort Augusta, with one river labeled "R. undiscovered." Alden & Landis 174/147; Clark Old South I:121; De Renne I, pp.90-91; Howes M-353; Sabin 45000; Streeter II:1145; Vail 411.
[Bound with:] A List of Copies of Charters, From the Commissioners for Trade and Plantations, Presented to the Honourable the House of Commons... London, 1741. 87pp., 2