The Importance of Settling and Fortifying Nova Scotia

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The Importance of Settling and Fortifying Nova Scotia

William Bollan, 1751

[BOLLAN, William (c.1710-1776).] The Importance of Settling and Fortifying Nova Scotia: With a Particular Account of the Climate, Soil, and Native Inhabitants of the Country. By a Gentleman lately arrived from that Colony. London: J. Scott, 1751.



“Was the French to make themselves Masters of Nova Scotia, it would be not only the ruin of New England, but of almost all our colonies on the continent ... Nova Scotia … is the key of all North America” (p.25ff).



Rare first edition. This work exemplifies the British effort to settle Nova Scotia in the wake of King William’s War (1744-1748). Halifax, Dartmouth, and the other English forts built in the previous two years are described, and the natural resources are lauded. The text has been attributed to William Bollan, a colonial agent from Massachusetts and the son-in-law of William Shirley. Only two copies appear in the auction records of RBH, one in 1988 and another in 1961. Dionne II 481; Sabin 56141; TPL 6400.



Octavo (187 x 208mm). Half-title. (Some marginal pencil emphasis marks, marginal stain to last three leaves.) Modern quarter calf, morocco spine label. Provenance: Ernest E. Keet (bookplate).

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