SKETCH OF THE UNITED STATES OF NORTH AMERICA AT THE COMMENCEMENT OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY from 1800 to 1810; with Statistical Tables, and a New Map.... Translated from the French with Illustrative Notes and Appendix By William Walton.
London: J. Booth [etc.], 1814. 22cm. xx, 363pp., plus folding map, hand colored in outline, and seventeen tables some folding. Bound in later blue leather, spine moderately faded, rubbing to joints. On pages 70- 71 some ink and pencil annotations at margins as well as a clipping of a statistical table from the Monthly Magazine tipped in. Some other scattered notations. A portion of chapter two is devoted to how the British might invade the United States with success. "Original edition of this highly critical account by a former Consul-General in America. The French edition was suppressed, as being too pro-British." Decker 040-028. Howes B-288. Item #66719
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