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Lot 189
HARRIOTT, JOHN Struggles through Life, Exemplified in the Various Travels and Adventures in Europe, Asia, Africa, and America, of Lieut. John Harriott, Formerly of Rochford, in Essex; now Resident-Magistrate of the Thames Police.
London: Printed for the Author by J. Skirven, 1808. Second edition. Two volumes. Modern black cloth, retains original endpapers. 7 x 4 inches (18 x 10 cm); frontispiece portrait, folding plate ix, 375, postscript; xi, 347 pp. A fine copy internally.
Harriott made several voyages to America and West Indies 1760s and tried his hand to many trades, including a patent for a fire escape as shown in the folding plate. The work fits into Mr. Kislak's collection as "The author operated farms in New York and Rhode Island and seems to have acted as agent in a gigantic British scheme to purchase from Georgia seventeen million acres bordering on the Mississippi. This, tied in with intrigues to acquire Florida from Spain and to take over the disaffected Western country from the United States, undoubtedly had for object the confinement of the United States to the Eastern seaboard" (Howes). Sabin 30461; Howes H220 (the first edition).
C The Collection of Jay I. Kislak sold to benefit the Kislak Family Foundation
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