Lot Details
Lot 284
. [Basle: circa 1781], the imprint reading: "De l'Ere de l'Independance de l'Amérique l'an V." Bound with Reveries d'un Suisse, ayant pour but La Reconcilliation entre L'Angleterre et ses Colonies. London: 1781; And Dangers qui Menacent L'Europe. Leiden: J. Van Thoir, 1794. Early wrappers backed with a modern cloth with a gilt label, without endpapers. 7 5/8 x 4 3/4 inches (18.5 x 12 cm); 120 pp.; 40 pp.; 57 pp. Some toning and spotting but generally clean, some faint old dampstaining in the lower margin of the first work and in the gutter margin of the final work.
This very rare work was published in Europe during the American Revolution and was dedicated to Benjamin Franklin, then ambassador to Paris. On the title page, Jones is referred to as a corsair (pirate), a prophet and a sorcerer. The first work is a lampoon of Franklin's negotiations in Paris, and the second part (with separate title) is a satire on the British demands for reparations to the loyalists. The book is scarce, with no copy in the auction record since 1978. Howes J231; Sabin 36567.
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