2 volumes. [2], vi, x, [2], 330; [4], 331-712, xv, [1] pp. With several blank leaves bound at rear of Volume II, containing notes in a contemporary hand. With folding copper-engraved map, hand-colored and backed with linen. 19x12 cm. (7½x4½"), half red morocco and cloth, raised bands, gilt-lettered spines, all edges gilt. Bound by Zaehnsdorf. First Edition.

With numerous neat marginalia notes, plus corrections within the text according to the errata listed in Volume I, all in a contemporary hand, belonging to Fran Gibbon, according to the name inked on the blank leaf facing title page and at top edge of title page, dated 1722. The reader and note-taker had some interesting opinions on religion in particular (such as the separation of church and state), and makes notations throughout the text as would a student. A choice copy, bound by Zaehnsdorf. Important early history of New England, noted by Howes as being "based chiefly on Mathers Magnalia and Oldmixon's British Empire in America." The map is "A New Map of New England According to the Latest Observations 1720," Printed for I. Clark, R. Ford, and R. Cruttendon. It includes Long Island, the Hudson River, then northeast as far as the Bay of Funda and part of Nova Scotia; there are insets of Boston Harbor and of the northeast from Philadelphia to Labrador. Howes N26; Sabin 52140.