Memoirs of the Life of the Right Honourable Sir James Mackintosh. Edited by his son Robert James Mackintosh, esq.
Boston: Little, Brown & Co, 1853.
Price: $150.00
About the item
First American edition, from the second London edition. Portrait frontispiece. 499, 525 pp. including index. 2 vols. Large 12mo. Original black cloth. Spine ends and corners just slightly worn, bookplates removed, else fine.
Item #58303
Much on India, as Mackintosh (1765-1832) lived there for some time, became the Recorder of Bengal from 1804-1811, founding the Bombay Literary Society during this time. Returned to England to become MP from Nairn. Professor of Law he became aa important legal philosopher.
