75/2565 [America]. (Oldmixon, J.). Het Britannische Ryk in Amerika, Zynde eene Beschryving van de Ontdekking, Inwooners, het Klimaat, den Koophandel, en tegenwoordigen Staat van alle de Britannische Coloniën in dat gedeelte der Wereldt. Als mede een omstandig Berecht aangaande de Koffy en Koffy-plantery. Amst., R. and G. Wetstein, 1721, 2 parts in 1 vol., (26),300; (2),327,(14)p., 2 ident. engr. frontisp., half-p. vignette, 8 fold. maps by H. MOLL and 3 ills. on 1 fold. plate (to the coffee treatise at the end), contemp. gilt hcalf w. brown mor. letterpiece.

- Fine copy.

= Tiele 192; cat. NHSM p.268; Sabin 57160; Alden/ Landis V, p.271; Müller, Kaffee 160. Cf. Kress 2597. The first Dutch edition of Oldmixon's The British empire in America (London, 1708) and the only edition to which is added the treatise on coffee with the three illustrations of the coffee-plant. The first part deals with the eastern states of the USA from Hudson-Bay to Carolina (with 5 maps), the second part with the Caribbean (with 3 maps). One of the maps (North America) shows California as an island (McLaughlin 200). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CXV.