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[DOUGLAS ( John )]

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[DOUGLAS ( John )]

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Auction Date:2012 Oct 20 @ 11:00 (UTC+1)
Location:38 Molesworth Street, Dublin, Dublin, ., Ireland
[DOUGLAS ( John )]. A letter addressed to two great men, on the prospect of peace;and on the terms necessary to be insisted upon in the negociation. The second edition. Dublin : Printed for G.and A. Ewing, at the Angel and Bible in Dame-street, 1760Pages (2), 41, (1, blank), with the half-title, 8vo, recent paper wrapper : a very good copy. An important pamphlet, once attributed to Pulteney, strongly recommending peace with France and the importance of requiring from her all of Canada, Guadaloupe and Senegal. It prompted Benjamin Franklin's pamphlet 'The Interest of Great Britain considered'. “Of the highest importance for the history of the Settlement as regards our interest in Canada and the American colonies.” - Higgs 2238. One of four editions published at Dubin during 1760 : ESTC locates copies at L, C, D, Di, Dp : CSmH, RPJCB and CU-SB.ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1) MODERN OBSERVATIONS. Modern Observations on Antient History. Translated from the Italian, by the author of the first chapter. To which is added, a translation of the mottoes, and an index to the six chapters. Chapter the Sixth. [Dublin?] Printed in the year 1756. FIRST EDITION, pages 50, (1), 54 - 56, complete thus though without a half-title, 8vo, recent paper wrapper : a very good copy. Black 263. The translation attributed to the Rev. Peter Bristow. Also issued as part of "The Patriot Miscellany", 1756.(2) FITZWILLIAM ( Wm. Wentworth ), Earl Fitzwilliam. A letter from a venerated nobleman who recently retired from this country, to the Earl of Carlisle : explaining the causes of that event. Dublin [no printer or publisher] : 1795. Pages (2), 29, (1, note explaining the publication of this second letter before the first), 8vo, recent paper wrapper : a very good copy.At least two other editions exist with the same title but different pagination. An early issue of the second letter, which preceded the first, as explained on the final page. Fitzwilliam was briefly and unhappily Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (1794-95).(3) HARPER ( Robert Goodloe ). Observations on the dispute between the United States and France, addressed. The fourth edition. Philadelphia printed, Dublin : re-printed by P. Byrne, (108) Grafton-street, 1798. 160-pages, 8vo, recent paper wrapper : light old staining, but a good to very good copy. Outlines the demands and threats made by France, denouncing their aggressive stance. The work was popular among the Federalists and pro-British Americans as well as the British, so popular in fact that it was printed some nineteen times before 1799. Harper had been one of France's most vocal American supporters during the Revolution.(4) PEEL ( Sir Robert ), first baronet. The substance of the speech of Robert Peel, Esquire. … in the … Commons, on Thursday, the 14th of February, 1799, on the question for receiving the report of the committee on the resolutions respecting an incorporate union with Ireland. With a correct copy of the resolutions, as they were finally amended by the House of Commons. Dublin : Printed by John Exshaw, 98, Grafton-Street 1799. FIRST IRISH EDITION, pages 22, (1, adverts), (1, blank), 8vo, recent wrapper : lightly foxed with with a small, faint old oval stamp on the title-page, otherwise a very good copy. (5)McCormack S56. Presumably reprinted from Stockdale’s London edition of the same year.ENGLISH PRE 1801; DUBLIN PRINTED; HISTORY; ENGLAND; AMERICA; NORTH AMERICA; IRELAND; UNITED STATES; FRANCE; UNION; ;