History of Canada
Title
History of Canada
Alternative Title
Full title: The history of the Five Indian Nations of Canada, which are dependent on the Province of New-York in America, and are a barrier between the English and the French in that part of the world. : With particular accounts of their religion, manners, customs, laws and forms of government; their several battles and treaties with the European nations; their wars with the other Indians; and a true account of the present state of our trade with them. In which are shewn, the great advantage of their trade and alliance to the British nation, and the intrigues and attempts of the French to engage them from us; a subject nearly concerning all our American plantations, and highly meriting the attention of the British nation at this juncture. / By the Honourable Cadwallader Colden, Esq; one of His Majesty's counsel, and surveyor-general of New-York. To which are added, Accounts of the several other nations of Indians in North-America, their numbers, strength, etc. and the treaties which have been lately made with them. In two volumes.
Creator
Cadwallader Colden, 1688-1776
Publisher
London: : Printed for Lockyer Davis, at Lord Bacon's Head in Fleet-street; J. Wren in Salisbury-court; and J. Ward in Cornhill, opposite the Royal-Exchange.
Date
M D CC LV [1755]
Format
2 volumes : 1 folded map ; 18 cm. (12⁰)
Description
Vol. 1: xii, [4], 260 p., [1] folded leaf of plates; v. 2: [4], 251, [9] p.
Booksellers' advertisements: [9] p. at end of v. 2.
Booksellers' advertisements: [9] p. at end of v. 2.
Provenance
Both volumes have bookplate of Sir Campbell Stuart at the front; volume 1 also has a different bookplate of Campbell Stuart in the back, upside down.
Schulich-Woolf copy missing the folded map.
Presented by Principal Daniel Woolf [Gift2015]
Schulich-Woolf copy missing the folded map.
Presented by Principal Daniel Woolf [Gift2015]
Contributor
Woolf, D. R. (Daniel R.) donor
Schulich-Woolf Collection.
Schulich-Woolf Collection.
Language
English
Identifier
E99.I7 C68 1755
ESTC T144799
ESTC T144799
Relation
Collection
Citation
Cadwallader Colden, 1688-1776, “History of Canada,” Schulich-Woolf Rare Book Collection, accessed April 28, 2024, https://schulichwoolf.omeka.net/items/show/34.