TRAVELS THROUGH THE MIDDLE SETTLEMENTS IN NORTH-AMERICA. IN THE YEARS 1759 AND 1760. WITH OBSERVATIONS UPON THE STATE OF THE COLONIES.
Burnaby, Andrew:
London. 1775. xvi,198pp., plus errata page. [Bound following:] Burke, Edmund: SPEECH OF EDMUND BURKE, ESQ. ON MOVING HIS RESOLUTIONS FOR CONCILIATION WITH THE COLONIES, MARCH 22, 1775. [4],107pp. Half titles for both texts. Bound in contemporary calf, spine richly gilt, gilt morocco spine label reading "American Affairs." Worn at spine ends and extremities. Contemporary bookplate and ownership signature of the "Rev. J. Hovin, St. Peter's College, Cambridge 1775." Very clean internally. Very good. This is the second edition of Burnaby's highly-regarded travel account, issued the same year as the first, generally considered one of the best accounts of America from its period. Burnaby arrived in Williamsburg in May of 1759 while on an excursion to the back country, and spent almost a year there. During his return trip he visited Mount Vernon, and includes a warm notice of Washington. In the spring of 1760 he made another trip to the Blue Ridge, then north through Maryland to Philadelphia, where he stopped for a month, and to New York for the same period. He then sailed to Newport and went overland to Boston. "Valuable as exhibiting a view of the colonies immediately preceding the Revolutionary War" - Sabin. Burnaby's work is bound here following the second edition of Edmund Burke's influential, yet not ultimately persuasive, speech recommending conciliatory measures towards the colonies. Burnaby: HOWES B995, "b." SABIN 9359. CLARK II:7. Burke: AMERICAN CONTROVERSY 75-17b. AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE 157b. SABIN 9296. TODD 25b HOWES B979.
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