NEW ENGLAND'S PROSPECT: being A true , lively, and experimental description of that part of America , commonly called NEW-ENGLAND

New-England's Prospect. : Being a true, lively, and experimental description of that part of America, commonly called New-England: discovering the state of that country, both as it stands to our new-come English planters; and to the old native inhabitants. And laying down that which may both enrich the knowledge of the mind-traveling reader, or benefit the future voyager./ By William Wood. --The third edition.

[Boston] : London, printed 1639. Boston, New-England, re-printed by Thomas and John Fleet, in Cornhill; and Green and Russell, in Queen-Street, 1764. [2], xviii, 128p. (8vo)

Condition: Modern brown Morroco, ruled in guilt, spine richly guilt, leather label. Titlepage silked, evenly tanned. Very good in cloth slip case.

This edition contains a new introduction by Nathaniel Rogers which surveys the political and economic relationship between Great Britain and the Colonies, and suggests this was issued as part of a discussion of the Sugar Act and the impending Stamp Act.

EVANS 9884, SABIN 105077, AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE 8. VAIL 559, PILLING, ALGONQUIAN, pp 535-36, PILLING, PROOF-SHEETS 4201