MARTYN, Benjamin (1699-1763). Reasons for establishing the colony of Georgia, with regard to the trade of Great Britain, the increase of our people, and the employment and support it will afford to great numbers of our own poor, as well as foreign persecuted Protestants. London: for W. Meadows, 1733. 4to., (10 x 8 inches). Engraved frontispiece and tail-piece on page 41 by John Pine, and engraved map of South Caroline, Georgia and Florida at the end. Early vellum backed boards, uncut (lightly dust-soiled). Provenance: 19th-century South Library bookplate of the Earls of Macclesfield on the front paste-down dated 1860, discreet blind-stamp on the preliminaries. Second edition, enlarged, with letters of General Oglethorpe with "resolutions of the Assembly relative to his arrival" (Sabin) not present in the first edition of the same year. "A well-written tract; plausible in its arguments, glowing in its descriptions, valuable for its information, and pertinent in its appeals to the philanthropic and benevolent" (Sabin). Martyn was the secretary to the Society for Establishing the Colony of Georgia, and this is his second work promoting the colony: "it is incumbent on us, at this Time more particularly, to promote and enlarge our Settlements abroad with unusual Industry, when the Attention of almost all the Powers in Europe is turn'd towards the Improvement of theirs. The French are continually undermining us both in the East and West-Indies." (Martyn page [5]). A FINE AND ATTRACTIVE COPY. From the celebrated library of the Earls of Macclesfield at Shirburn Castle, Oxfordshire, England, accumulated from the early 18th century by generations of of the Parker family, and sold (over successive sales) by Sothebys. The first Earl of Macclesfield was Thomas Parker, 1st Baron Parker, made Viscount Parker, of Ewelm in the County of Oxford, and Earl of Macclesfield, in the County Palatine of Chester in 1716. He was Lord Chief Justice of the Queen's Bench from 1710 to 1718 and Lord High Chancellor from 1718 to 1725. Probably acquired by Thomas Augustus Wolstenholme Parker, 6th Earl of Macclesfield (17 March 1811 - 24 July 1896) Conservative Member of Parliament for Oxfordshire from 1837 until 1841. Howes M356, Goldsmiths 7074, Sabin 45002.