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Scarce with jacket, which is chipped here at corners and spine. Inscribed by author opposite title page: "To Major General Sir. Robert McCarrison, SSE, MD, DSc, etc. from the writer." Includes fold-out map and erratum. DJ in Mylar. With index and Hutchinson's catalog

This "third American" edition, "from the 23rd London edition" (1737) was published in Vermont in 1810. Opposite the title page is an inscription "The property of Susanna Day [of] Winchendon [Massachusetts]" This edition distinguished by "The" in title; copies at Yale and University of Vermont.
Derick Sibley at the time was the publisher of the Freeman's Press newspaper in Montpelier (1809-1812)
From Classic Encyclopaedia: "During the years from 1715 to 1728 Defoe had issued pamphlets and minor works too numerous to mention. The only one of them perhaps which requires notice is Religious Courtship (1722), a curious series of dialogues displaying Defoe's unaffected religiosity, and at the same time the rather meddling intrusiveness with which he applied his religious notions."
Pages 21-22 torn
Missing pages 175-76, 227-28, 229-40, 241-42, 301-02, 303-04

Inscribed by the author "To --- Day (Breeden) from her old friend Kate Trimble (Woolsey), New York, Apr 5 1904."
Born in Kentucky, Woolsey (1858-1936) was an early women's rights leaders and writer. Her mother, Mary Barlow Trimble, was also a well-known suffagist.
Following the death of her first husband in 1887, she married Edward Woolsey of New York City, and the couple had homes on Lexington Avenue and at Washington Square.
According to a biographical sketch by Paul Tenkotte, "Woolsey's views were also unconventional for her era. She was a eugenicist, believing that science could be used to engineer better babies. Men, she felt, had reshaped the world of matriarchal societies into male-dominated patriarchies.... In a book regarded as controversial for its day, Republics versus Women (1903), she asserted that the aristocracies of Europe were actually more progressive in terms of women's rights than the world's republics, including the United States."
She attended many women's conventions in Europe… Read More