Bibliothecæ Americanæ primordia.. An attempt towards laying the foundation of an American library, in several books, papers, and writings, humbly given to the Society for Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, for their perpetual use and benefit of their members, their missionaries, friends, correspondents, and others concern'd in the good design of planting and promoting christianity within Her Majesties colonies and plantations in the West-Indies.
White Kennett (1660-1728) Bishop of Peterborough
Category
Books
Date
1713 - 1714
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire
NT 3173020
Summary
Bibliographic description
[2],iii,[1],xvi,3-132,125-275,[225]p. ;. 4to. Advertisement bound following Dedication. Misnumbered section at 125- marked with manuscript asterisks. Provenance: marked 'Dupl' [i.e. Chatsworth duplicate]. Former shelfmark: 1C. Binding: eighteenth-century sprinkled calf; rebacked in late eighteenth-/early nineteenth-century with gilt-tooled spine; gilt-lettered on red label 'Kennet's American Library'
Makers and roles
White Kennett (1660-1728) Bishop of Peterborough , author