A DISCOURSE WRITTEN BY...THE KING OF GREAT BRITAIN'S ENVOY EXTRAORDINARY TO THE STATES OF THE UNITED PROVINCES. VINDICATING HIS ROYAL MASTER FROM THE INSOLENCIES OF A SCANDALOUS LIBEL...WHEREUNTO IS ADDED A RELATION OF SOME FORMER AND LATER PROCEEDINGS OF
Downing, George:
London: Printed for John Luttone, 1672. 31,139,[4]pp. 16mo. Later three-quarter calf and marbled boards, leather label. Some minor dampstaining along upper edge of final forty pages. Trimmed a bit close but not costing any text, and tightly bound, making it difficult to discern an occasional letter in the gutter. Overall, still very good. The second edition, with additions, after the first edition of 1664, with important information on Dutch possessions in North America, especially New York. This is one of three "issues" of this book which appeared in 1672. More properly, at least two of these "issues" are actually different printings; this copy, with the Luttone imprint (JCB issue "A") is paginated differently than the issue "B," and the signatures are signed differently. Downing was Winthrop's nephew and a Harvard graduate. He published a number of works relevant to the activities of the Dutch West India Company, and to events in the New Netherlands, including this rebuttal to a pamphlet entitled AN EXTRACT OF THE REGICTER [sic] OF THE STATES GENERAL OF THE UNITED PROVINCES (1664). The text of that work is reprinted herein, with some additions, all toward the end of propagandizing for the new Dutch War. "This book contains important information regarding New Netherland and the rights of the Dutch to their possessions in America" - Church catalogue. The "meaner hand" is suggested to be Robert Clavell. SABIN 20779. EUROPEAN AMERICANA 672/85. JCB III, p.236. CHURCH 617.
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