HALES, Stephen (1677-1761). A Sermon preached before the Trustees for establishing the Colony of Georgia in America ... on ... March 21. 1734. To which is annex'd The General Account for one whole Year [by Harman Verelst]. London: T. Woodward, 1734. 4° (260 x 195mm). Woodcut headpiece and initial, letterpress tables, cancellans slip pasted onto the lower margin of I1r, 2-page publisher's advertisement. (Some light spotting and offsetting, occasional short marginal tears, title lightly marked, H4 with skilfully repaired tear.) 20th-century morocco-backed boards with morocco fore-edges, spine lettered in gilt, uncut. Provenance : David E. Hughes, Llandudno (bookseller's ticket). FIRST EDITION. AN UNCUT COPY OF A RARE WORK ON THE ECONOMY AND SOCIETY OF THE NASCENT STATE OF GEORGIA. The Charter of the Trustees for establishing the Colony of Georgia in America was granted in 1732 and the government gave £10,000 to the Trustees from the proceeds of the sale of the island of St Christopher (recorded on p. 23 of the 'General Account'). The first settlement was made in Savannah in 1733 by German Lutherans, Piedmontese, Scottish Highlanders, Swiss, Portuguese Jews, and Englishmen, and the colony was charged with supplying Britain with wine grapes, hemp, silk, and medical plants. The scientist and clergyman Stephen Hales was a trustee and common councillor of the Trustees from its inception in 1732 until 1752 (the year before its charter expired), doubtless due to his reputation as a scientist and philanthropist. The second part of the work contains the accounts for 9 June 1733 to 9 June 1734 by Verelst, and illuminate the active participation of many major figures in the Trustees' work: Sir Hans Sloane and the Company of Apothecaries gave £20 each 'For encouraging and improving Botany and Agriculture', while the celebrated horticulturist Philip Miller of the Chelsea Physic Garden gave white mulberry plants, burgundy vines and other seeds and plants (pp. 50 and 59-60). Indeed, Hales himself, a noted temperance campaigner, gave 200 copies of his tract A Friendly Admonition to the Drinkers of Brandy and other Distilled Spirits (London: 1734; cf. p. 61). The Sermons appear to have been preached annually from 1732; although those for 1736 and 1749 are recorded in single copies by ABPC, no copy of Hales' sermon is recorded at auction since 1975. ESTC T10610; Goldsmiths' 7206; Sabin 29673 (citing the incomplete Boston Athaneum and Harvard copies and thus only calling for the 'Sermon').
HALES, Stephen (1677-1761). A Sermon preached before the Trustees for establishing the Colony of Georgia in America ... on ... March 21. 1734. To which is annex'd The General Account for one whole Year [by Harman Verelst]. London: T. Woodward, 1734. 4° (260 x 195mm). Woodcut headpiece and initial, letterpress tables, cancellans slip pasted onto the lower margin of I1r, 2-page publisher's advertisement. (Some light spotting and offsetting, occasional short marginal tears, title lightly marked, H4 with skilfully repaired tear.) 20th-century morocco-backed boards with morocco fore-edges, spine lettered in gilt, uncut. Provenance : David E. Hughes, Llandudno (bookseller's ticket). FIRST EDITION. AN UNCUT COPY OF A RARE WORK ON THE ECONOMY AND SOCIETY OF THE NASCENT STATE OF GEORGIA. The Charter of the Trustees for establishing the Colony of Georgia in America was granted in 1732 and the government gave £10,000 to the Trustees from the proceeds of the sale of the island of St Christopher (recorded on p. 23 of the 'General Account'). The first settlement was made in Savannah in 1733 by German Lutherans, Piedmontese, Scottish Highlanders, Swiss, Portuguese Jews, and Englishmen, and the colony was charged with supplying Britain with wine grapes, hemp, silk, and medical plants. The scientist and clergyman Stephen Hales was a trustee and common councillor of the Trustees from its inception in 1732 until 1752 (the year before its charter expired), doubtless due to his reputation as a scientist and philanthropist. The second part of the work contains the accounts for 9 June 1733 to 9 June 1734 by Verelst, and illuminate the active participation of many major figures in the Trustees' work: Sir Hans Sloane and the Company of Apothecaries gave £20 each 'For encouraging and improving Botany and Agriculture', while the celebrated horticulturist Philip Miller of the Chelsea Physic Garden gave white mulberry plants, burgundy vines and other seeds and plants (pp. 50 and 59-60). Indeed, Hales himself, a noted temperance campaigner, gave 200 copies of his tract A Friendly Admonition to the Drinkers of Brandy and other Distilled Spirits (London: 1734; cf. p. 61). The Sermons appear to have been preached annually from 1732; although those for 1736 and 1749 are recorded in single copies by ABPC, no copy of Hales' sermon is recorded at auction since 1975. ESTC T10610; Goldsmiths' 7206; Sabin 29673 (citing the incomplete Boston Athaneum and Harvard copies and thus only calling for the 'Sermon').
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