The history of glasgow, from the earliest accounts to the present time; with an account of the rise, progress, and present state, of the different branches of commerce and manufactures now carried on in the city of glasgow.
Glasgow.
Printed by Rob. Chapman and Alex. Duncan, for the author, 1777.
First edition.
8vo.
viii, [2], 391pp, [1]. With an engraved folding map. Handsomely bound in twentieth-century half-morocco, marbled papers boards, lettered in gilt to spine, T. E.G. Marbled endpapers, several naive paper repairs to verso of folding map, scattered spotting.
'Perhaps no circumstance could have occurred more fortunate for the manufactures of Glasgow, than the stop which has, for some time, been put to the commerce with America'.
The sole edition of a history of Glasgow - principally the rise and progress of commercial activity in the city and the benefits to local manufacturers due to a cessation of trade with America occasioned by the late war - the only published work of Glaswegian merchant John Gibson (d. 1787).
The sole edition of a history of Glasgow - principally the rise and progress of commercial activity in the city and the benefits to local manufacturers due to a cessation of trade with America occasioned by the late war - the only published work of Glaswegian merchant John Gibson (d. 1787).
ESTC T127963.
£ 250.00
Antiquates Ref: 33280
