Cui Bono? or an Inquiry, what Benefits can arise either to the English or the Americans, the French, Spaniards or Dutch, from the Greatest Victories or Successes in the Present War

by Josiah Tucker

$1,500 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books

First edition

Expertly bound to style in half 18th-century russia over 18th-century marbled paper-covered boards, the flat spine divided into six compartments by gilt fillets and roll tools, red morocco lettering-piece in the second compartment, the others with repeat decoration in gilt. First edition of Tucker's economic argument for American independence in which he insisted it would be to England's interest to let her colonies go Connor, 85 . Josiah Tucker, the Dean of

• Binding: Leather

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