Descriptions and explanations of some remains of Roman antiquities dug up in the city of Bath in the year MDCCXC with an engraving from drawings made on the spot
Bath: printed by and for R. Cruttwell, and sold by C. Dilly ... and Cadell and Davis ... London; and by the booksellers of Bath, 1795. First edition, 4to, pp. viii, 29, [1]; folding engraved plate; half-title and wrappers wanting; very good. Pownall (1722-1805) was the colonial governor of Massachusetts who "deserves more than any other Englishman of his time to be called a student of colonial administration" (DAB), and was a lifelong friend of Benjamin Franklin. After failing to effect a peace between Britain and her colonies in Parliament in 1780, he retired to private life. A prolific author, Pownall wrote on a number of subjects, the most famous of which was his Administration of the Colonies, 1764 etc. ESTC locates only 5 copies in the U.S.: Yale, Newberry, Harvard, Duke, and the Boston Athenaeum. Item #54196
Price: $300.00
