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An address to the proprietors of East India stock; setting forth the unavoidable necessity and real motives for the revolution in Bengal, in 1760. By John Zephaniah Holwell, Esq;
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks Am 1744 Noi Af.410.2
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Holwell, J. Z. (John Zephaniah), 1711-1798 13958
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 80p. ; 4°.
- Place of Publication:
- London : printed for T. Becket and P.A. de Hondt, 1764.
- Notes:
- A supplement, 'Mr. Holwell's refutation of a letter from certain gentlemen of the Council', was published in the same year; the errata to 'An address' are to be found in the supplement.
- Local Notes:
- HSP in LCP.
- Benjamin Franklin's copy.
- Bound with North, Life, q.v.; item 2 in volume. Modern half sheep over contemporary marbled boards, bound with other items. MS table of contents on flyleaf in William Temple Franklin's hand; listed as "Life of Sir Dudley North 1744" in Catalogue of the Library of James Ralph; sold his sale, Baker's, 5 April 1762 (lot 113, 1/9), to Franklin (Shipley, p. 41); purchased from Dufief, 1801-03, by Col. William Duane; sold by him in 1822 to the Athenaeum of Philadelphia (6); sold in turn by it, 22 December 1885, to the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.
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