Coxe, Daniel:

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A DESCRIPTION OF THE ENGLISH PROVINCE OF CAROLANA. BY THE SPANIARDS CALL'D FLORIDA, AND BY THE FRENCH, LA LOUISIANE...WITH A LARGE AND CURIOUS PREFACE, DEMONSTRATING THE RIGHT OF THE ENGLISH TO THAT ... The fourth issue of the first edition, with the important map. With the exception of the titlepage, this fourth issue is identical to the first published in 1722. According to William S. Coker in his introduction to the 1976 University of Florida facsimile of the first edition, the three subsequent "editions" were in fact reissues of the unsold sheets of the first edition, changed only by a cancel titlepage. Both Church and Howes note that the fourth "edition" had additions, but a page-for-page comparison with the 1722 edition shows that this is incorrect: the setting of everything except the titles is identical.This is one of the first English works to describe the Southeast in any detail. Colonel Coxe laid claim to an enormous amount of land in the South thanks to grants made to his father Dr. Daniel Coxe by King Charles II. Coxe published the present work to further his families' claims, but also to raise awareness of the huge potential of the area and the dangers posed by French incursions. He did not limit himself to the Carolinas, discussing the lower Mississippi in detail as well. Florida, Georgia, and Louisiana are also described. Much of the information, gathered from British hunters and explorers, is published here for the first time. The work is also credited with b

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