James Cummins Bookseller

London: 1749].

Price: $350.00

About the item

Twelvth edition. iii-xxiv (lacking title), 256, 504, [30] pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Contemporary calf wrapper sewn over what appears to be contemporary calf. The wrapper with some darkening and rubbing, wrapper not removed so condition of original binding unknown, title and endpapers lacking, some browning, mostly marginal and at front and back, a few gatherings loosened, else very good with the contemporary signatures of Samuel Blodget and Simon Stevens.

Item #36856

There are two Samuel Blodget's of this time, the first, a merchant and inventor (1724-1807) who participated in the French and Indian War and then became a judge and merchant in New Hampsjire and his son, a merchant, architect and economist (1757-1814) who was a Captain during the Revolutionary War and strongly invested in Washington City real estate and development and also built the building for the First Bank of the United States in Philadelphia. A Simon Stevens, also of New Hampshire, son of Phinehas (born 1737), was a lieutenant in Capt. John Stark's company in the battle against Ticonderoga in 1758 and then during the Revolution he was a Loyalist volunteer in the British army.