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Paperback / softback. New.

Hardback. New.

Hardback. New.

Boston: S. Kneeland and T Green, 1732. Second edition. Hardcover. Boards bowing, covers with old and successively more recent mends (all are sympathetic), binding quite tight though text is accessible old notes and figuring to endpapers, text is clean, good. Narrow octavo, contemporary brown calf with old and recent mends and infilling; (2), iv, (2), 220 pp. Scarce Colonial American tradesmen's and travelers' pocket guidebook. First edition was published the previous year with same imprint and pagination. Evans 3958.

Boston: Printed by S. Kneeland and T. Green, 1732.. [2],iv,[2],220pp. Very narrow octavo. Contemporary blind ruled calf over wooden boards. Boards worn, corners bumped, lower rear board partially exposed; spine ends exposed. Amateur reinforcement to front hinge. Several contemporary inscriptions on front and rear pastedowns and endpapers, and occasionally throughout. Half- inch closed tear to margin of leaf Q4, occasional foxing and even tanning throughout. Good. The second edition, after the first of the previous year, of the earliest guide to outline the routes of transit in the North American colonies from the Kennebec to Jamestown, Virginia. The first part of the work is comprised of tables of currency conversion and interest. The text then lists "Counties and Towns in New England" and "Courts in the Provinces and Colonies," including court term schedules. A section follows which lists roads and routes, with mileages, from Boston to Kennebec, Brunswick, Londonderry, Yarmouth, Northtown… Read More