Thomas POWNALL
Mémoire adressé aux souverains de l'Europe, sur l'état présent des affaires de l'ancien & du nouveau monde (...). Traduit de l'Anglois par M***** [John Turberville Needham][Memorandum addressed to the Sovereigns of Europe, on the present state of affairs in the Old and the New World (…). Translated from the English by M*** [John Turberville Needham]
Thompson|London • Brussels 1782|12 x 19.5 cm|Broché
Second edition of this French version (the first having appeared in 1781), approved by the author, of the Memorial most humbly addressed to the sovereigns of Europe, on the present state of affairs (London, July 1780) (cf. Sabin 64827).
Disbound copy, presented in a modern marbled paper wrapper.
This text had in fact been the subject of an earlier translation based on the Translation of the memorial by Edmund Jennings and John Adams, which failed to satisfy Pownall (namely the Pensées sur la Révolution de l'Amérique-Unie, issued with the Amsterdam imprint in 1780).
The substance of the various versions nonetheless converges, forming a presci
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