Pownall, Thomas:

$2,000 · Offered by William Reese Company

MEMOIRE ADRESSE AUX SOUVERAINS DE L'EUROPE, SUR L'ETAT PRESENT DES AFFAIRES DE L'ANCIEN & DU NOUVEAU MONDE. Pownall's work was originally published in 1780 as A Memorial Most Humbly Addressed to the Sovereigns of Europe and was quickly translated into French, with the assistance and encouragement of John Adams. By 1780, Pownall, long considered sympathetic to the position of the American colonists, was finishing a lengthy career in Parliament. His work discusses the importance to Europe of the American Revolution and the ideas it espoused. It also considers the political, economic, and trade consequences for the nations of Europe of an independent America. Only a handful of copies noted by ESTC.

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