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Boothby, Richard
Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 USD
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Description
- A Breife Discovery or description of the most famous island of Madagascar or St. Laurence in Asia neare unto East-India. With relation of the healthfulnesse, pleasure, fertility and wealth of that country, comparable if not transcending all the easterne parts of the world, a very earthly paradise... London: by E[dward] G[riffin], 1646
- paper, ink, leather
4to (189 x 140 mm). Clean and unspotted. Modern blue morocco. A very attractive copy.
Literature
Wing B3743
Catalogue Note
first edition. The author considers Madagascar "a most fitting and desirable place to settle an English Colony and Plantation ... The chiefest place in the world to inrich men by Trade ... farre exceeding all other Plantations in America or elsewhere." This proposal was in fact never carried into effect, although there was briefly a settlement on the southwest coast.