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James BoswellAN ACCOUNT OF CORSICA, THE JOURNAL OF A TOUR TO THAT ISLAND; AND MEMOIRS OF PASCAL PAOLI ... ILLUSTRATED WITH A NEW AND ACCURATE MAP OF CORSICA.
Glasgow: Printed by Robert and Andrew Foulis for Edward and Charles Dilly, 1768. xxiv,382pp. plus folding map (bound before A1). Contemporary calf, neatly rebacked with most of the original backstrip laid down. Bound with the half-title and the terminal blank. Typical offsetting from binding to edges of endleaves, a bit of ink spatter at the fore- edge of the verso of the folded map, and offset then to blank margins of adjacent leaves, with a modicum of scattered foxing and marginal discolorations elsewhere, still an about very good copy. Item #WRCLIT71586
First edition, first form of the map (as appropriate to the first edition) without scale or marginal divisions, E2 is a cancel, as usual, and is in the 'Istria' form; however, Z3 is present in the original, uncorrected state, with the 'Mariana' reading in the penultimate line. D2r is also in the uncorrected state. All but one of the misprints noted by Pottle are present. One of 3500 copies printed. The Tinker copy and one of the Rothschild copies are among those examples with Z3 uncorrected. POTTLE 24. ROTHSCHILD 442 & 443. GASKELL, FOULIS PRESS, 473. ESTC T26157.
Price: $1,750.00