Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
An historical account of the incorporated Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts : containing their foundation, proceedings, and the success of their missionaries in the British colonies, to the year 1728 / By David Humphreys ...
Call Number
Lapidus 5.49
EXKA Americana 1730 Humphreys
1080.486
Identifier
ark:/88435/w95056400
Publisher
London : Printed by Joseph Downing ... , 1730.
Language
English
Date Created
1730
Extent
xxxi, [1], 356 p. : maps ; 21 cm. (8vo)
Provenance
Princeton copy 2 ExKa copy has bookplates of H. F. De Puy and Grenville Kane.
Source Acquisition
Princeton copy 3 Gift; Sidney Lapidus, Princeton Class of 1959, 2021.
References
ESTC T36297
Lowndes (G. Bell, 1890) v.2, p.1141-1142
Watt v.1, column 529i
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Margin notes used.
Map of North and South Carolina (35 x 38 cm., mounted on linen) has title: A map of the province of Carolina : divided into its parishes &c. according to the latest accounts, 1730 / by H. Moll, geographer; inset map has title: A map of ye most improved part of Carolina.
Map of New England, New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania (35 x 38 cm., mounted on linen) has title: A map of New England, New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania / by H. Moll, geographer ... 1730.
Princeton copy 1 Ex copy imperfect; maps wanting.
Binding Note
Princeton copy 2 ExKa copy in olive goatskin, signed by P.B. Sanford.

Discovery Information

Subject
Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts (Great Britain)
Missions—North America
Maps—North Carolina—1730
Maps—South Carolina—1730
Maps—New England—1730
Maps—New York (State)—1730
Maps—New Jersey—1730
Maps—Pennsylvania—1730

Physical Characteristics

File Count
414

Institutional Information

Collection
The Sid Lapidus '59 Collection on Liberty and the American Revolution
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/c01b8db0-0bdf-4b01-a8eb-d1fa028c23c1/manifest