威廉·卡斯特尔。D、 1645年。 美国海岸和大陆的短暂发现。伦敦：（没有打印机），1644年。

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CASTELL, WILLIAM. D. 1645. :A Short Discoverie Of the Coasts and Continent of America. London: [no printer], 1644.
8vo (163 x 94 mm). Title and dedication supplied in early expert manuscript facsimile (see below), and signature B (4 leaves) lacking, some pagination along top edges shaved, four leaves at beginning repaired along upper margin twice affecting first line of text, a few other small repairs. 19th century calf gilt by Pratt, hinges split, light rubbing to spine ends and corners.
Provenance: Henry Stevens (bound by W. Pratt for H. Stevens, 1860, binder\’s stamp on front free endpaper, his sale \”Bibliotheca Americana\” Puttick and Simpson, 7 March, 1861, lot 514); Anson Phelps Stokes (1838-1913) bibliographer (bookplate, his sale Parke-Bernet, New York, 15 November 1948, lot 58).

FIRST EDITION, THE MOST ACCURATE ENGLISH DESCRIPTION OF NEW YORK BEFORE 1650, from the collection of noted bibliographers and Americana collectors Henry Stevens and Anson Phelps Stokes. The full title reads: A Short Discoverie Of the Coasts and Continent of America, From the Equinoctiall Northward, and of the adjacent Isles. Whereunto is prefixed the Authors Petition to this present Parliament, for the propagation of the Gospell in America; attested by many eminent English and Scottish Divines. And a late Ordinance of Parliament for that purpose, and for the better government of the English Plantations there. Together with Sir Benjamin Rudyers Speech in Parliament, 21. Jan. concerning America. Stevens states that this work \”should find a place in every collection of the so-called \’Eliot Tracts,\’ for herein is contained the embryo idea or suggestion that Parliament should recognize the benefits to be derived by the colonies from cultivating the friendship of the Indians. EXCEEDINGLY RARE, only one other copy sold at auction (according to American Book Prices Current) in the past 45 years. Church 461; OCLC : 1238118938; Sabin 11398; Stevens, Bibliotheca Americana Vol 1, p 123; Wing C-1231.

威廉·卡斯特尔。D、 1645年。 美国海岸和大陆的短暂发现。伦敦：（没有打印机），1644年。