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ROGERS, Robert, Maj. 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.
8o (200 x 127 mm). (H2 with marginal tear affecting two words of text, H4 with tear crossing text, some very light browning and staining.) Contemporary calf (rebacked, some rubbing to edges). Provenance: A. A. Rogers (early ink signature); Robert King Rogers (bookplate), presumably family members.
FIRST EDITION. The companion to the journals of the famous ranger of the French and Indian War (see previous lot). "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 Ottowa chief, and received his submission to English supremacy. Rogers was also present at the siege of Detroit by Pontiac 1763. Clark Old South I:301; Greenly Michigan 17; Howes R-418; Lande 761; Sabin 72723; Streeter sale II:1028; Vail Frontier 562.
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FIRST EDITION. The companion to the journals of the famous ranger of the French and Indian War (see previous lot). "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 Ottowa chief, and received his submission to English supremacy. Rogers was also present at the siege of Detroit by Pontiac 1763. Clark Old South I:301; Greenly Michigan 17; Howes R-418; Lande 761; Sabin 72723; Streeter sale II:1028; Vail Frontier 562.