Item #38451 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. AS TO THEIR SITUATION, EXTENT, CLIMATE, SOIL, PRODUCE, RISE, GOVERNMENT, RELIGION, PRESENT BOUNDARIES, AND THE NUMBER OF INHABITANTS SUPPOSED TO BE IN EACH. ALSO OF THE INTERIOR, OR WESTERLY PARTS OF THE COUNTRY, UPON THE RIVERS ST. LAURENCE, THE MISSISSIPI, CHRISTINO, AND THE GREAT LAKES. TO WHICH IS SUBJOINED, AN ACCOUNT OF THE SEVERAL NATIONS AND TRIBES OF INDIANS RESIDING IN THOSE PARTS... BY MAJOR ROBERT ROGERS. Robert Rogers.
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. AS TO THEIR SITUATION, EXTENT, CLIMATE, SOIL, PRODUCE, RISE, GOVERNMENT, RELIGION, PRESENT BOUNDARIES, AND THE NUMBER OF INHABITANTS SUPPOSED TO BE IN EACH. ALSO OF THE INTERIOR, OR WESTERLY PARTS OF THE COUNTRY, UPON THE RIVERS ST. LAURENCE, THE MISSISSIPI, CHRISTINO, AND THE GREAT LAKES. TO WHICH IS SUBJOINED, AN ACCOUNT OF THE SEVERAL NATIONS AND TRIBES OF INDIANS RESIDING IN THOSE PARTS... BY MAJOR ROBERT ROGERS.

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. AS TO THEIR SITUATION, EXTENT, CLIMATE, SOIL, PRODUCE, RISE, GOVERNMENT, RELIGION, PRESENT BOUNDARIES, AND THE NUMBER OF INHABITANTS SUPPOSED TO BE IN EACH. ALSO OF THE INTERIOR, OR WESTERLY PARTS OF THE COUNTRY, UPON THE RIVERS ST. LAURENCE, THE MISSISSIPI, CHRISTINO, AND THE GREAT LAKES. TO WHICH IS SUBJOINED, AN ACCOUNT OF THE SEVERAL NATIONS AND TRIBES OF INDIANS RESIDING IN THOSE PARTS... BY MAJOR ROBERT ROGERS.

London: Printed for the Author, and Sold by J. Millan, 1765. Half brown morocco and cloth [light wear], with gilt rules, spine bands, spine panels. vii, [1], 264 pp. Marbled endpapers. Small tape repair at leaf 59-60. Very Good.

"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]. "One of the most accurate contemporary accounts of the interior of North America as it was when England took it from France" [Streeter].
Francis Parkman, quoted by Larned, noted that Rogers was a native of New Hampshire and called this work "a small volume containing much valuable information." "Particularly valuable for the description of the Indians and the then little known western part of the country" [Vail]. Major Rogers was sent to receive the capitulation of western French posts in 1760; en route he met Pontiac, the Ottawa chief, and received his submission to English supremacy. He was also present at the siege of Detroit by Pontiac in 1763.
FIRST EDITION. Howes R418 'b'. Streeter Sale 1028. Larned 1481. Vail 562. 115 Eberstadt 885. 49 Decker 240. Reese & Osborn, Struggle for North America 66 note. Item #38451

Price: $3,250.00