Beschreibung:

A Brief Account of the Causes That have retarded the Progress of the Colony of Georgia, in America.
London, 1743. Octavo (6 ¾ x 4 ½ inches, 170x110 mm). Modern quarter morocco. Condition: Minor restoration at the edges of the terminal few leaves. Provenance : Sion College Library (early inked stamp on verso of the title). first edition, containing accounts of georgia not found elsewhere. “Though Thomas Stephens was the son of William Stephens who succeeded Oglethorpe as governor of Georgia, he was a leader of what the administration forces called the malcontents. Thomas complains of the prohibition against Negroes and against the transportation of rum, (this latter deprived the colonists of a trade which the New Englanders, especially those from Rhode Island, found very lucrative) and in an Appendix of 101 pages gives various contemporary letters and protests regarding affairs in Georgia” ( Streeter ). Clark I:154; De Renne I, p.112; European Americana 743/207; Howes S942.; Sabin 91305; Streeter Sale 1152.