Darien; or, The Merchant Prince. A Historical Romance

by Eliot Warburton

$500 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

First edition

First edition. iv , 319; ii , 314; ii , 304 pp. 3 vols. 8vo. Bound in original quarter blue cloth and boards, paper labels, slightly chipped vol. II with significant loss , uncut, endpapers renewed; very good. Wolff 7000; NCBEL III, 1404. Item #242169 Historical novel based on the ill-fated Darien Scheme, the attempts of banker William Paterson to establish a Scottish colony in 1698 on the Isthmus of

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