Alexander Brown. The Genesis of the United States: A Narrative of the Movement in England, 1605-1616, Which Resulted in the Plantation of the North America by Englishmen, Disclosing the Contest Between England and Spain for the Possession of the Soil Now Occupied by the United States of America. A Series of Historical Manuscripts Now First Printed Together With a Reissue of Rare Contemporaneous Tracts, Accompanied by Bibliographical Memoranda, Notes, and Brief Biographies Collected, Arranged, and Edited By Alexander Brown. 2 Volumes.

Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1890. xxxviii,1157 pages. 9-9/16 inches. (First Edition). Ex-Library, re-cased in cloth bindings.

Volume I: Tear between the frontispiece and the title page. The folding plate at page xv has tears with a hole. Pages 79-96 are bound upside-down preceding page 97. Occasional loose page/plate and or tear.

Volume II: Library markings, lacks frontispiece illustration: “A View of London in 1616” ; folding map torn at folds. Binding tight, text clean.