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A letter from William Penn, proprietary and governour of Pennsylvania in America, to the Committee of the Free Society of Traders of that province, residing in London ..   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Penn, William, 1644-1718
Sowle, Andrew, 1628-1695, printer
Title
A letter from William Penn, proprietary and governour of Pennsylvania in America, to the Committee of the Free Society of Traders of that province, residing in London ..
Publisher
[London] : Printed and sold by Andrew Sowle, at the Crooked-Billet in Holloway-Lane in Shoreditch, and at several stationers in London
Description
Title (continued): ... Containing a general description of the said province, its soil, air, water, seasons and produce, both natural and artificial, and the good encrease thereof. Of the natives or aborigines, their language, customs and manners, diet, houses or wigwams, liberality, easie way of living, physick, burial, religion, sacrifices and cantico, festivals, government, and their order in council upon treaties for land, &c. their justice upon evil doers. Of the first planters, the Dutch, &c. and the present condition and settlement of the said province, and courts of justice, &c. To which is added, an account of the city of Philadelphia newly laid out. Its scituation between two navigable rivers, Delaware and Skulkill, with a portraiture oor plat-form thereof, wherein the purchasers lots are distinguished by certain numbers inserted. And the prosperous and advantagious settlements of the Society aforesaid, within the said city and country, & c
A reissue with parts of the title page and B2v and C1 reset. In this issue, line 5 of the title has "proprietary" and line 29 of the same reads "And the prosperous and advantagious settlements of the society aforesaid, within". On p. 9, the last line of text reads "find me" and the words "Your kind and cordial friend" precede "William Penn". A2r is numbered "1" in error. A variant removes this page number, allowing for through paging.--Cf. ESTC
The catalogue of purchasers' names (i.e. "Directions of reference in the city-draught of Philadelphia, ...", p. 11-14) is frequently lacking in this issue, although the catchword "Directions" is found on C1v. Apparenly this catalogue is also missing in the copy reported by Smith composed of 2-1/2 leaves, i.e. 10 pages.--Cf. ESTC
Text is continuous despite pagination
ESTC
Wing (2nd ed.)
Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy quarterbound in modern brown morocco and papier tourniquet (as described by Wolfe in Marbled papers). Both the embossed stamp and the perforation stamp of the Library are present on the title page. In this copy the catalogue, as described in ESTC, is wanting, as is the engraved map

Subjects: Indians of North America
Language English
Publication date 1683
publication_date QS:P577,+1683-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
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IA Collections: bplill; bostonpubliclibrary; americana
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Notes No copyright page found. No table-of-contents pages found.
Authority file  OCLC: 1048327210
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