Letters from America, Historical and Descriptive; Comprising Occurrences from 1769, to 1777, Inclusive

by William Eddis

$2,500 · Offered by Back Creek Books

First edition

London: Printed for the author, 1792. First Edition. Contemporaneous leather over boards. Octavo. 50 , 455 pages. William Eddis arrived in Annapolis in 1769, having secured a position as surveyor of customs through the patronage of Maryland's last Royal Governor, Sir Robert Eden. His letters back to England are one of the richest sources of information about life, culture, and society

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