London: Printed for Thomas Wilcox, 1757. First edition. 4to. xii, 255 pp. Illustrated with an engraved folding frontispiece view, "The South View of Oswego on Lake Ontario" by J. Mynde. Contemporary quarter tan calf over marbled paper-covered boards, stamped in gilt, likely expertly rebacked, extremities and spine ends worn, boards somewhat rubbed; original free endpapers reused as paste-downs; front hinge slightly worn; offsetting from frontispiece onto title-page; bottom corner of D2 torn away, but not affecting text. With the armorial book-plate of Lieutenant-General Pringle Taylor (1796-1886), former British Lieutenant-Governor of Jamaica, on front paste-down. Church 1023; ESTC T36514; Howes S-703; Sabin 84566; Streeter Sale II:871

A handsome copy of the first and classic history of New York.