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(FLORIDA). COXE, DANIEL. A Description of the English Province of Carolana, by the Spaniards Called Florida, and by the French La Louisiane. As also of the Great and Famous River Meschacebe or Mississippi, the Five Vast Navigable Lakes of Fresh Water. St. Louis, [Missouri]: Churchill and Harris Printers, 1840. First American edition. 8vo. 6, 90 pp. Large folding engraved map of Florida and Louisiana. Modern buckram. Folds of map weak & one entirely broken; the map complete. $600.00
Howes C 826: "Bold assertion of the rights of England to the entire gulf region...Coxe was the first American Masonic Grand Master. His book first agitated a confederation of the colonies against French aggressions, later adopted as Franklin's 'Albany Plan' and was the first English account of Louisiana." Not in the Imprints Survey. Clark I, 68.