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? BEING A SERIES OF LETTERS, ADDRESSED TO MONSIEUR NECKER, LATE CONTROLLER GENERAL OF THE FINANCES OF FRANCE. by Tucker, Josiah: : David M. Lesser, Fine Antiquarian Books LLC : Specializing in the social, political, and cultural history of the Americas.

Tucker, Josiah:

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? BEING A SERIES OF LETTERS, ADDRESSED TO MONSIEUR NECKER, LATE CONTROLLER GENERAL OF THE FINANCES OF FRANCE.

Glocester: 1781 141, [1 blank] pp. A few spots, title page a bit dusted and a small corner repair, light rubberstamp accession number on first text page. Else Very Good. Bound in attractive modern quarter morocco over paper-covered marbled boards [bookplate on front pastedown]. "A series of interesting letters relating to the American Revolution...Rare" [Hubbard Sale]. "His views, which now appear thoroughly sagacious, were considered at the time as visionary and exasperating. In this work he predicted that as soon as the colonies should be at peace with England they would fall to quarreling among themselves" [Church]. "The great Grievance of the Colonies, and their bitter Complaints against the Mother-Country were, that they were not governed a la Monsr. Locke. For, to give them their Due, they hardly made an Objection to any Thing besides." FIRST EDITION. Howes T382. Adams Controversy 81-71a. Sabin 97334. Hubbard Sale 2209. Church 1193.

Book Id: 24707

Price: $750.00

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