An account of the expedition to the West Indies, against Martinico, Guadelupe, and other the Leeward Islands; subject to the French King, 1759. By Richard Gardiner, Esq; Captain of marines on board His Majesty's ship Rippon, on the Expedition.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gardiner, Richard, 1723-1781 20162

Contributor:

Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790, former owner.

Athenaeum of Philadelphia, former owner.

Franklin, William Temple, 1760-1823, annotator.

Duane, William, 1760-1835, former owner.

Dufief, N. G. 1776?-1834, bookseller.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

[6],vi,75,[1]p.,plate : map ; 8°.

Edition:

The second edition.

Place of Publication:

London : printed for Zech. Stuart, 1760.

Notes:

With a half-title.

Local Notes:

HSP in LCP.

Benjamin Franklin's copy.

Bound with Maseres, Proposal, q.v.; item 5 in volume. Modern half sheep over contemporary floral boards; bound with other items. Pencil marginalia in Franklin's hand on pp. 46, 48, 51, and 59, badly shaved; Franklin to Maseres, 17 June 1772, thanking him for the "Pamphlets proposing to establish Life Annuities in Parishes, &c. . . . I send it back with a few Marginal Notes (perhaps of no great Importance) made in Reading it, requesting it may be return'd to me"; (P 19: 179); MS table of contents of the vol. on flyleaf in William Temple Franklin's hand; three leaves of following item misbound between H4 and I1; purchased from Dufief, 1801- 03, by Col. William Duane; sold by him in 1822 to the Athenaeum of Philadelphia (68); sold in turn by it, 22 December 1885, to the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.