Edited Peter Force (3 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 26pp. from: Tracts and Other Papers, Relating Principally to the Origins, Settlement, and Progress of the Colonies in North America (Volume III). no 6, wrappers.

Disbound. Condition: Very Good binding. Octavo. 24 pp. Removed from binding. From: Tracts and Other Papers, Relating Principally to the Origins, Settlement, and Progress of the Colonies in North America. Volume I (1836). Here stitched into modern laid paper wrappers. A bright copy with limited toning and foxing to the leaves. One in a series of publications put out by the Virginia Company to promote immigration to Virginia. Published anonymously it is general understood that it was written by Robert Johnson. The author opens his dedicatory preface explaining that he intends to clear the name of Virginia of its ill-deserved reputation noting: "there is no common speech nor publicke name of any thiug this day, (except it be the name of God) which is more vildly depraved, traduced and derided by such unhallowed lips, then the name of Virginea" p. 4. In three parts, Johnson describes the organization, "The first I nothing else but a briefe relating of things alreadie done and past: The second of the persent estate of the businesse: And the third doth tend as a premonition to the planters and adventurers for the time to come" p. 5. First editions of this tract are extremely scarce in the trade. Clark I, 104; Church 355; Sabin 53249.

Hard Cover. Condition: near Very Good binding. Octavo. 47, [1] pp. Removed from Force's Tracts and Other Papers, Relating Principally to the Origins, Settlement, and Progress of the Colonies in North America. Volume I (1836) and presented here in early 20th century boards backed in cloth. Manuscript title on the spine. Binding soiled with light edgewear; contents are foxed throughout, otherwise clean. Originally published by John Eliot (Boston, 1814) from the manuscript found among Nathaniel Burwell's paper in the collection of the Massachusetts Historical Society. In a footnote the editor notes that the manuscript was incomplete and damaged and so the printed text has some gaps. While not exclusive, the bulk of this work recounts the early events around Bacon's rebellion carried on by John Ingram after Bacon's death. The original edition is vanishingly rare. We've been unable to locate any copies of the Boston imprint in institutional holdings making Force's printing the earliest obtainable. Sabin 51810; Bradford 5615; Virginia Encyclopedia.