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Lot 423
Sale 697 - Fine Books and Manuscripts including Americana
Nov 6, 2019
10:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
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HUBBARD, William (1621?-1704). The Present State of New-England, being a Narrative of the Troubles with the Indians. London: for Tho. Parkhurst, 1677.
4to (187 x 136 mm). π2-4, a1-3, L2-4 and map provided in facsimile from the John Carter Brown Library copy with their stamps. (Lacking first blank, a4, and R4, C1 disbound, some soiling as usual.) Modern half calf (some wear).
FIRST ENGLISH EDITION of the most thorough account of the King Philip's War, first printed in Boston in the same year. The large woodcut map (produced here in facsimile) is a copy of the map in the Boston edition, considered to be the first map of America printed in this country. Church 651; ESTC R1358; Howes H-756; Sabin 33446; Streeter II:641.