Wood's New-England's Prospect (New Englands Prospect. A true, lively, and experimentall description of that part of America, commonly called New England: discovering the state of that Countrie, both as it stands to our new-come English Planters; and to t…

xxxi, [9], 131, [1] pp. 1967 reissue of 1865 Prince Society edition, which was taken from the 1764 edition of the work originally published in 1634. Reproduction of map of 'The South part of New-England, as it is Planted this yeare, 1634' precedes text. Includes prefaces from 1865 and 1764 editions, the full text of New England's Prospect, an Indian vocabulary, a constitution and list of members of the Prince Society, and an index. Sabin 105076: "An introductory essay by the eighteenth-century editor is a plea against the policy of 'cramping' the trade with the colonies, 'which must consequently lessen their importation from Great-Britain." William Brigham in Mass. Hist. Soc. 'Proceedings,' for Nov. 1862, p. 335, stated that he owned a copy formerly belonging to Dr. Gordon Tufts, on the title page of which was the note in Tufts' handwriting: 'The gift of Nathaniel Rogers, Esq., by whom the Introductory Essay was written, to Cotton Tufts, 1767.' The essay has also been less convincingly attributed to James Otis, on the authority of an inscription in James Bowdoin's copy... The footnotes added in this edition include a comparison of a few words in the Penobscot and St. John's Indian dialects." Church 444.