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Galloway's Candid Examination, 1780

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116 + 1 ad pp. (12mo) 20.7x12 cm (8¼x4¾"), later half-morocco with green cloth, lettered on spine in gilt, top edge gilt. Second Edition. Joseph Galloway was an American politician who became a Loyalist during the American Revolutionary War, after serving as delegate to the First Continental Congress from Pennsylvania. For much of his career in Pennsylvania politics, he was a close ally of Benjamin Franklin As a delegate to the Continental Congress, Galloway was a moderate, and he proposed a Plan of Union which would have averted a full break from Britain. When this was rejected, he moved increasingly towards Loyalism. Howes, 34. Institutional bookplate.

Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 109
Beschreibung:

116 + 1 ad pp. (12mo) 20.7x12 cm (8¼x4¾"), later half-morocco with green cloth, lettered on spine in gilt, top edge gilt. Second Edition. Joseph Galloway was an American politician who became a Loyalist during the American Revolutionary War, after serving as delegate to the First Continental Congress from Pennsylvania. For much of his career in Pennsylvania politics, he was a close ally of Benjamin Franklin As a delegate to the Continental Congress, Galloway was a moderate, and he proposed a Plan of Union which would have averted a full break from Britain. When this was rejected, he moved increasingly towards Loyalism. Howes, 34. Institutional bookplate.

Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 109
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