COOPER, Thomas.

Some Information Respecting America...

Item #28912

COOPER, Thomas. Some Information Respecting America...2nd ed. London: J. Johnson, 1795. Folding map. iv, 240pp. A fine copy in later period style calf-backed marbled boards. Howes C-760. Pages 226-240 contain "Information to Those Who would Remove to American Written Some Time Sinnce by Dr. Benjamin Franklin." The author describes mostly the middle colonies in quite favorable terms. He settled in Pennsylvania where he practiced both law and medicine. He later taught chemistry at Carlisle (now Dickinson) College, and later taught at the University of Pennsylvania.

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