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NEW JERSEY] SMITH, SAMUEL. The History of the Colony of Nova-Caesaria, or New-Jersey: Containing, an Account of its First Settlement, Progressive Improvements, the Original and Present Constitution, and Other Events, to the Year 1721 . Burlington: James Parker 1765. First edition. Modern black cloth. 8 1/2 x 5 inches (22 x 13 cm); x, 573, [3] pp., retains blanks. Stamp to title, some toning, overall a clean copy, signatures of Henry Remsen to front and rear blanks. The first general history of New Jersey, printed on a press owned by Benjamin Franklin one of only 600 copies likely printed. Church 1053; Evans 10166; Felcone New Jersey Books 243; Howes S661; Miller Benjamin Franklin's Philadelphia Printing 853; Streeter Sale 923. C The New York City Bar Association