Harriott john 1745 1817 (3 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: New. In English.

Zustand: New. In English.

Hardcover. 1st Edition. 2 volumes. 12mo., (6 6/8 x 4 inches). Half-title in volume one (quite browned throughout). Later half red morocco, marbled paper boards, gilt (extremities a bit scuffed). Provenance: With the engraved armorial bookplate of H.O. Havemeyer, Jr. on the front paste-down of each volume; with the small library label of Wolfgang A. Herz on the front paste-down of each volume, his sale Important Voyages and Travels, 9th December 2009, lot 218 First American edition, first published in London in 1807. The author is most famously remembered for being the founder of the Thames Police in 1798, but in addition to having three wives and fathering at least 13 children Harriott spent two years in America between 1793 and 1795, which he describes in 25 chapters of volume II: "I had travelled over great part of America, without meeting with a situation to answer my expectations. I had bought a small farm of 76 acres, near Newport, in Rhode-island, as a temporary residence for my family, while I made my researches. It unfortunately happened, however, that while thus employed, the growing uneasiness between England and America greatly increased, until it was suspected that Mr. Pitt had spies all over the United States; and the Englishman, who did not inveigh against his native country with equal or more violence than themselves, became liable to such suspicion. At length, I heard other whispers, insinuations, and threatenings, as I walked along the streets, until my old farming man at last told me bluntly, yet in good nature, that the people considered me as a spy" (page 126). Sabin, 30461. Catalogued by Kate Hunter.…